CO2 produced in water treatment plants

On the photo you can see a wastewater treatment plant and the 3 million tons of CO2 that the produce is written under it

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3 Mio. tons of CO2 per year are produced by the 10.000 water treatment plants in Germany.

By the way, the total electricity consumption of the 10,000 plants is around 4,400 gigawatt hours (GWh) per year. This corresponds to the electricity requirements of 900,000 four-person households or a CO2 emission of 3 million tons per year.

Source: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/publikation/long/3855.pdf

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