Life Cycle and Risk Assessment for Water and Wastewater Infrastructure

Dear Colleagues,

Access to adequate water and sanitation services is basic human right and vital to human health. However, much of the global population is living without adequate access to water and wastewater infrastructure. Meanwhile, the existing water and wastewater systems are facing a number of challenges such as climate change, aging infrastructure, financial shortfall, and difficulty in meeting increasingly stringent water quality goals. Clean water and sanitation is one of key goals delineated in the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals Report. To enable the provision of more sustainable water and sanitation services to the global population, this Special Issue requests studies on theory development, method advancement and applications, and associated reviews/case studies in the areas of life cycle and risk assessment for water and wastewater infrastructure. The explementary topics include but are not limited to the following:

• System theories for assessing the sustainability and resilience of and equity in water and wastewater infrastructure;
• Life cycle assessment methods and case studies of water and wastewater infrastructure;
• Health risk assessment methods and case studies of water and wastewater infrastructure;
• Climate impacts, vulnerability, adaptability and resilience of water and wastewater infrastructure.

Dr. Xiaobo Xue Romeiko
Guest Editor

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