Carbon Footprint in Galleries and Wells in the Canary Islands
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Universidad de La Laguna
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ISSN: 2522-8714, 2522-8722
ISBN: 9783031431685, 9783031431692
Datum der Publikation: 2023
Seiten: 103-105
Art: Buch-Kapitel
Zusammenfassung
The Canary Islands are an archipelago made up of eight islands, where the existence of quality water resources is vital to meet the demand for tourism, the population’s needs, and the maintenance of the agricultural sector. This has generated in the islands an excellent knowledge of groundwater and high development of other techniques to obtain drinking water, such as seawater desalination. In this article, we will focus on the facilities used to exploit the aquifer (wells and water galleries) and the impact they have on the environment by calculating the carbon footprint. As the carbon footprint is mainly determined by the consumption of fossil fuels and electricity, we have found that water galleries are the most sustainable installations, as they require neither electricity nor pumping. Desalination plants, on the other hand, consume by far the most electricity and have the highest carbon footprint values.
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