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Implementation of regionalized AWARE calculations #31

Open cmutel opened 4 months ago

cmutel commented 4 months ago

Feature request

AWARE is a method for determining how bad water use is in different locations around the globe. AWARE provides "characterization factors" per watershed, but out initial implementation will be on the spatial scale of our inventory data, i.e. countries or economic units. This means that our inventory and impact assessment with have a shared spatial scale.

We are primarily importing data from systems which have a linked "flow-location" data model - in other words, they would have a resource consumption item of "Surface water in Colombia". Brightway has a strict assumption that these so-called "elementary flows" do not have a location - rather, they occur in the location of the process consuming or emitting them. So we would need to change our model from:

flowchart LR
    id1(["Water, surface, CO"]) --> id2[Process A]

To:

flowchart LR
   id0(["Water, surface"]) --> id1["Water consumption, surface"] --> id2[Process A]

Where the process node Water consumption, surface has {"location": "CO"}.

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