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Development of National Life Cycle Inventory Database on Irrigation Water by Agricultural Dam

관개용 저수지 농업용수의 국가 전과정 목록분석 데이터베이스 구축

  • 김영득 (한국농어촌공사 농어촌연구원 (Tokyo City University)) ;
  • 박필주 (한국환경산업기술원 녹색기술전략실)
  • Received : 2011.03.08
  • Accepted : 2011.05.20
  • Published : 2011.05.31
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Abstract

The objective of the study is to develop life cycle inventory (LCI) database of dam, a major facility for irrigation water supply. The types of database developed are three out of nine dams according to the size of the wate r storage capacity: two kinds larger than 500,000 $m^3$ depending on gate for discharging (Type 1) and the other dam smaller than 500,000 $m^3$ (Type 2). According to the LCI analysis, type 1 larger than 500,000 $m^3$ storage capacity with gate has the lowest environment impact in the 6 impact categories. The impact of the type 1 accounts for 7~35 % of the type 2 for supplying irrigation water. Comparing with the environment impacts of water for other uses such as drinking and industrial water, the impacts of 1 $m^3$ irrigation water supply is 4~45 % of the one for industrial water supply and 1~16 % of the drinking water's. The three types of LCI DB on the irrigation water by dams will be useful in the application of Life Cycle Assessment in agricultural products and environmental labelling including carbon footprint since it is complied to the guidelines of LCI DB constr uction issued by Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Knowledge Economy.

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