Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
The environmental impacts of a water reuse scheme across its whole life cycle, from construction to operation and end of life.
Water4All · Water for Circular Economy
What if Wastewater Wasn’t Waste?
Water scarcity could cause up to a 40% supply shortfall by 2030. AWARE builds the method to measure — and prove — which water reuse solutions actually work.
The project
What is AWARE?
AWARE develops a standardized Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) method, specifically tailored for Water Resource Recovery and Reuse (WRR&R) initiatives. By combining environmental (LCA), economic (LCC), and social (S-LCA) analysis, the project equips decision-makers with reliable, comparable results to support sustainable water circular economy solutions across urban, industrial, and agricultural sectors.
Life Cycle Costing (LCC)
All the costs of the scheme over its life span — investment, operation, maintenance and end of life — on the same basis as the LCA.
Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA)
The effects on the people touched by the scheme: workers, local communities, users and society at large.
Targets
AWARE in numbers
- 6partners from 6 countries
- 5+study casesat least one per partner, plus additional cases
- ≥20applications of the methodby practitioners and researchers*
- ≥10adoptions by policymakersand decision-makers*
- ≥50uses of the web application*
- >100stakeholders reachedthrough dissemination
* Within two years of the end of the project.
Where the method is tested
Study cases
Urban, industrial and agricultural water reuse in five countries, with additional cases identified through stakeholder engagement.
Hersonissos, Crete
Urban and agricultural reuse (tourism area)
Lisbon
Urban non-potable reuse
Campinas
Reclaimed water for industry
ÖZEN İPLİK
Industrial reuse (textiles)
Girona
Urban greywater reuse (urban agriculture)
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Join the AWARE network
Find out how to take part in AWARE: propose a study case, give feedback on the method or test the web app.
AWARE in the Water4All booklet of funded projects
AWARE is one of the projects presented in the Water4All 2024 Joint Transnational Call booklet, published in May 2026.
