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posted on 2025-05-02, 16:36 authored by Hugo Henrique de Simone SouzaHugo Henrique de Simone Souza, Carlo Gottardo Morandi, Marc Árpad Boncz, Paula Loureiro Paulo, Heidrun Steinmetz

Urban water management faces growing pressure from population growth, pollution, and climate variability, demanding innovative strategies to ensure long-term sustain-ability. This study applies Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) across four case studies in Brazil and Germany, evaluating integrated systems that combine construct-ed wetlands for greywater treatment with rainwater harvesting for non-potable use. The scenarios include a single-family household, a high-rise residential building, a ru-ral residence, and worker housing. A multi-criteria analysis was conducted to derive consolidated sustainability indicators, and sensitivity analysis explored the influence of dimension weighting. Results show that water reuse scenarios consistently outper-form conventional counterparts across environmental, economic, and social dimen-sions. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) reveals notable reductions in global warming po-tential, terrestrial acidification, and eutrophication. Life Cycle Costing (LCC) confirms financial feasibility when externalities are considered, especially in large-scale systems. Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) highlights perceived benefits in health, safety, and sustainability engagement. Integrated water reuse systems achieved overall sus-tainability scores up to 4.8 times higher than their baseline equivalents. These findings underscore the effectiveness of decentralized water reuse as a complementary and ro-bust alternative to conventional supply and treatment models, supporting climate re-silience and sustainable development goals.

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PROBRAL Programme - CAPES/DAAD project N° 88881.371339/2019-01, DAAD PPP project IWA-II, P33- Project-ID:57597708 (German counterpart)

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