Annotated Bibliography: Victorian Desalination Project Sustainability

This annotated bibliography focuses on the sustainability of the Victorian Desalination Project, referencing several key articles that discuss various aspects of its environmental, economic, and social impact. It highlights the project's aim to supply a significant portion of Melbourne's water needs using advanced, environmentally sustainable designs. The annotations cover topics such as integrated sustainability assessment frameworks, the importance of considering economic, social, and environmental pillars, and the role of environmental impact assessments in minimizing negative consequences. The bibliography also addresses the balance between the energy-intensive nature of desalination and the need for climate-independent water sources, emphasizing the importance of monitoring and preventing impacts on ecosystems and marine habitats. Desklib provides this and many other solved assignments to help students in their academic journey.

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Annotated Bibliography on Sustainability of the Victorian Desalination Project
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Ibrahim, Y., Arafat, H.A., Mezher, T. and AlMarzooqi, F., 2018. An integrated
framework for sustainability assessment of seawater desalination. Desalination, 447,
pp.1-17.
Victorian Desalination Project is most technical advanced, environmental friendly as
well as energy efficient project in Australia which is able to meet around 30% of the water
requirements of Melbourne. Ibrahim et al. (2018) mentioned that sustainability has many
definitions, as well as among it one simple definition is maintaining something over the time.
Sustainable development innovation meets with needs of the present-day deprived of
compromising capability of the future generations to meet with their requirements.
Desalination is termed as energy intensive processes associated with the economic, social as
well as environmental impacts. It is required to consider those impacts at high priority as well
as effects on sustainability of desalination processes. Climatic changes as well as drought are
considered as main challenges in Australia to supply of water. This project is featured as
advanced environmental sustainable design. Lior (2017) discussed that integrated
sustainability assessment framework is used to consider those mentioned three factors to
desalination process allowed assessment of used technologies. According to Rathnayaka,
Malano and Arora (2016), water desalination is at a phase where it is generally utilized
monetarily, has a significant effect, and is along these lines full grown besides prepared
enough for assessment as well as advancement by means of the logical utilization of
manageability.
The three pillars of sustainability are economic, social as well as environmental
impacts. Febrina and Ekambaram (2018) mentioned that the economic pillar is conquered the
decision making processes as well as still does owed to inertia as well as human environment.
While at last periods, there is an increase in required concern for an increase in weight as well
as influence of environmental as well as social impacts. It is being driven by increasing in the

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public worry about local in addition worldwide sustainability as well as by means of
consistently progressively firmer regulations (Piyadasa et al. 2018). The desalination plant is
being commissioned into record time as well meet with 100% of the quality as well as
efficiency targets. It is transitioning towards operations as well as maintenance phase of the
Victorian Desalination Project. The sustainability innovation is related to raise of freshwater
yield, reduce production of waste as well as deal with the water sources. The design of the
plant removes negative impacts on landscape along with cultural heritage. It helps to limit
visibility of industrial buildings with environmental reserve built around plant reserves
biodiversity as well as offers with community recreational spaces.
Rathnayaka, Malano and Arora (2016) noted that the financial pillar of the
sustainability comprehends total of the unsubsidized cost of desalted water, containing cost of
the authorizing as well as permitted chemicals. The impact of the project is on local as well as
national economy, development of land, and considering other ways to supply of water.
Water pricing policy will help in efficient reduction of the pollution as well as protection of
resources. According to Aberilla et al. (2020), environmental pillars of sustainability is
contained effects on feedwater, emission of the supply of energy for desalination as well as
environmental impacts of the fresh water capitals. This sustainability pillar has high rate of
complexity, included fact that feed is a habitant containing a whole environment which
desalination disturbs because of removal of huge volumes, besides release of enormous
measurements of salt water with numerous chemical added substances, as well as at raised
temperatures (van Leeuwen 2017). The social pillar is impacted on the health, employment
included security as well as treatment of the employees, and usage of land, local growth
along with unintentional growth resulted from new desalted source of water can cause loss to
the environmental incomes.

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Ibrahim et al. (2018) mentioned that the water resources are required for the
sustainable innovation as the seawater desalination is provided with climate independent
sources for the drinking water, however this project is very energy intensive as well as
environmental hampering. For the environmental friendly system, it rolls out into the low
income as well as low income countries, where the technological innovations are required
with the advanced financial appliances to care for the sustainability of the desalination
schemes. According to Piyadasa et al. (2018), the accessibility of the seawater is not being
affected by the climatic situations, and if the freshwater is being removed from sea into
sustainable way as it could deliver with efficient besides environmental friendly solutions.
The environmental safety as well as sustainable management treatments of the by-products is
considered as important for sustainability innovation in desalination project of Victoria. The
desalination plant is maintaining comprehensive systems to monitor as well as prevent the
impacts on ecosystems at the time of project development along with implementation.
Compliance with the monitoring as well as migration needs detailed in each desalination’s
plant- environmental impact assessment (Rathnayaka, Malano and Arora 2016). It is seen that
discharges of the seawater desalination plant is environmental friendly and it is not resulted
into negative impacts on the marine habitants in area of the plant’s discharge. The
desalination plant is using amount of the chemicals for enhancing treatment processes. The
chemicals used are different from others as it is nit providing impact on the aquatic life and
environment.
According to Piyadasa et al. (2018), during Victorian Desalination Project inception
as well as planning phases, it undergoes the environmental impact assessment to reduce the
environmental impacts. It is monitored as well as enforced by the designated construction
management as well as regulatory compliances throughout the construction work. The
compliance is a condition for the issuance of the completion work of the project and approval

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of the operating licenses. The project management team informs the decision makers as well
as public towards the environmental impacts for implementing the proposed desalination
project. An environmental impact assessment document is also provided to analyze impacts
of physical environment, social, health as well as economic impacts. Lior (2017) mentioned
that it helps to reduce the cost as well as time required for the implementation of this project
work. There is an increase in project acceptance with improvement over the project
performance.

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References
Aberilla, J.M., Gallego-Schmid, A., Stamford, L. and Azapagic, A., 2020. An integrated
sustainability assessment of synergistic supply of energy and water in remote
communities. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 22, pp.1-23.
Febrina, C.S. and Ekambaram, P., 2018. Benchmarking innovation potentials in large projects
by Public Private Partnerships. In Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on
Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate (pp. 331-345). Springer,
Singapore.
Ibrahim, Y., Arafat, H.A., Mezher, T. and AlMarzooqi, F., 2018. An integrated framework
for sustainability assessment of seawater desalination. Desalination, 447, pp.1-17.
Lior, N., 2017. Sustainability as the quantitative norm for water desalination
impacts. Desalination, 401, pp.99-111.
Piyadasa, C., Yeager, T.R., Gray, S.R., Stewart, M.B., Ridgway, H.F., Pelekani, C. and
Orbell, J.D., 2018. Antimicrobial effects of pulsed electromagnetic fields from commercially
available water treatment devices–controlled studies under static and flow
conditions. Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology, 93(3), pp.871-877.
Rathnayaka, K., Malano, H. and Arora, M., 2016. Assessment of sustainability of urban water
supply and demand management options: a comprehensive approach. Water, 8(12), p.595.
Rathnayaka, K., Malano, H. and Arora, M., 2016. Assessment of sustainability of urban water
supply and demand management options: a comprehensive approach. Water, 8(12), p.595.
van Leeuwen, C.J., 2017. Water governance and the quality of water services in the city of
Melbourne. Urban Water Journal, 14(3), pp.247-254.