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Challenge Paper, Copenhagen, Denmark, Copenhagen The percent change in potable water productivity directly from potable (municipal) water use before
Consensus Center, 29 April 2008). associated with the implementation of a water-saving (Q1) and after (Q2) scheme implementation:
47. I. Aguilar-Benitez, J.-D. Saphores, Water Resour. Res. 44, scheme is DP 100(P2 P1 )/P1 , where P1 and P2 DP 100(Q1 /Q2 1).
W08414 (2008). represent the productivity of potable water before and
48. K. Bithas, Ecol. Econ. 68, 221 (2008). after the scheme is implemented (not all water-saving Acknowledgments: The authors thank H.-F. Mok and
49. M. A. Farrelly, R. R. Brown, Glob. Environ. Change 21, schemes discussed in the text directly reduced potable C. Jayasuriya for preparation of Fig. 2; J. Famiglietti,
721 (2011). water use, but for consistency across the 21 case studies, K. Low, and three anonymous reviewers for providing
50. S. Dolnicar, A. Hurlimann, Water Sci. Technol. 60, 1433 water savings were benchmarked relative to potable comments on the paper; and the University of California,
(2009). water use at the appropriate scale). Assuming that the Irvine, HSSoE Research Ignition Fund for funding to S.B.G.
51. Water productivity P is defined as the value of goods and water-saving scheme does not change the value of
services V generated per unit of water used Q: P = V/Q. goods and services produced, DP can be calculated 10.1126/science.1216852
to the site. Oxygen reduction at the and hydrogen peroxide from waste-
cathode normally produces water, but, water instead of through electrolysis
in the absence of an efficient catalyst 15 or other means, the energy contained
such as Pt, the reaction results in a 10 in the organic matter is used to sup-
two-electron transfer and the produc- ply at least part of the production
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tion of hydrogen peroxide (47). An energy. As shown by Foley et al.
alkaline solution of hydrogen per- (48) in a life-cycle analysis compar-
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used industrially for bleaching. A life- MECs, on-site production of chem-
cycle analysis suggests that produc- icals can bring about a considerable
tion of hydrogen peroxide in MECs 0.1 0 environmental benefit to the overall
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Reviews: Conversion of wastes into bioelectricity and chemicals by using microbial elec-
trochemical technologies, by B. E. Logan and K. Rabaey (10 August 2012, p. 686). In the
Fig. 2 legend, the symbols should have been identified as follows: There is roughly an
inverse relationship between the value of these products (circles) and the current densities
(triangles).... On p. 689, 4.5 a.m.2 should have been written as 4.5 A m2. The authors
also wish to thank T. Lacoere and J. Desloover for assistance in preparing the draft figures
and funding from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Flag-
ship cluster Biotechnological solutions to Australias transportenergy and greenhouse gas
challenges. The HTML version online has been corrected.