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ArticleSustainable water resources management2022

A comparison between carbon footprint of water production facilities in the Canary Islands: groundwater resources vs. seawater desalination.

Noelia Cruz-Pérez, Juan C Santamarta, Isabel Gamallo-Paz, Jesica Rodríguez-Martín, Alejandro García-Gil

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5 authors.

Noelia Cruz-PérezDepartamento de Ingeniería Agraria y del Medio Natural, Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), Tenerife, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-1279-0823
Juan C SantamartaDepartamento de Ingeniería Agraria y del Medio Natural, Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), Tenerife, Spain.
Isabel Gamallo-PazDepartamento de Ingeniería Agraria y del Medio Natural, Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), Tenerife, Spain.
Jesica Rodríguez-MartínDepartamento Técnicas y Proyectos en Ingeniería y Arquitectura, Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), Tenerife, Spain.
Alejandro García-GilGeological Survey of Spain (IGME-CSIC), C/ Ríos Rosas 23, 28003 Madrid, Spain.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Canary Islands have a water culture tied to the exploitation of their groundwater by means of wells and water galleries. However, the growth of tourism, the increase in the local population and the development of agriculture have led to the emergence of new ways of obtaining water, such as the desalination of seawater. The presence of these desalination plants covers the entire archipelago except for the island of La Palma, and sometimes they function as a complement to water needs, while in other cases they are the only source of drinking water available. To study the environmental impact of the production of drinking water through the exploitation of the aquifer and the desalination of seawater, the carbon footprint methodology was used following the guidelines of the GHG Protocol. The result has shown that seawater installations have the largest carbon footprint, mainly due to the high electricity consumption in the islands and the electricity mix of the archipelago which, as it does not rely entirely on renewable energy sources, increases CO

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Canary IslandsCarbon footprintClimate changeGroundwaterWater production

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