Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technologies

Dear Colleagues,

The principal objective of wastewater treatment is to allow human and industrial effluents to be safely disposed of to protect public health and the ecosystem. Reclaimed or recycled water is wastewater that has been treated to remove certain impurities, and then reused for a variety of applications including landscaping, irrigation, and recharging groundwater aquifers. In many parts of the world, the problem of water scarcity is being exacerbated by urban growth and increasingly erratic rainfall patterns due to climate change. This crisis has generated an ever-increasing drive for the use of alternative water sources, especially wastewater reclamation. Water reuse practices, however, raise concern due to the potential adverse health effects associated with wastewater-derived resistant pollutants.  Conventional sewage treatment plants can effectively remove total organic carbon and total nitrogen as well as achieving some degree of disinfection. However, these plants have not been specifically designed to remove priority pollutants. This calls for advanced wastewater treatment processes.

We invite original research, as well as review articles, that will stimulate the continuing efforts to understand the occurrence and fate of priority pollutants in the aquatic environment, the development of strategies to mitigate pollution and the monitoring, analytical and impact evaluation techniques. We are particularly interested in articles covering impact assessment and management of the risk associated with wastewater reuse, and current and emerging advanced wastewater treatment options.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• New concepts and techniques for wastewater treatment/ reuse
• Technical, economical, and life-cycle assessment of wastewater reuse
• Fate and toxicity of priority pollutants in wastewater reuse schemes
• Modelling of fate of priority pollutants in wastewater reuse schemes

Assoc. Prof. Faisal Ibney Hai
Prof. Kazuo Yamamoto
Prof.  Veeriah Jegatheesa
Guest Editors

 

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