Water Pollution and Treatment of Newly Emerging Contaminants
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2023) | Viewed by 301
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Water is the basic component of human beings and general life. Contaminated water is usually the main way to contact infectious pathogens, toxins and carcinogenic organic and inorganic pollutants for human beings. Around the world, water pollution has been related to a series of acute and chronic diseases. In the past few decades, an increase of population and activities has not only doubled the amount of waste discharged into water, but also introduced new substances (e.g., drugs, hormones, endocrine-disrupting compounds, toxins and pathogens). In addition, with the continuous improvement of analytical methods, several recent studies have shown that newly emerging pathogens or chemicals (e.g., viruses, algal toxins, disinfection by-products) may exist in natural or treated water bodies. These emerging contaminants, which have not historically been considered as pollutants, have now become prominent agents of global concern to public health specialists and environmental engineers and scientists.
This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) pays attention to the current water pollution and treatment of newly emerging pollutants. New research papers, reviews, case reports and conference papers are welcome to this issue. Papers dealing with new approaches to detect emerging contaminants or risk assessment and management are also welcome. Other manuscript types accepted include methodological papers, position papers, brief reports, and commentaries.
Dr. Chun Cai
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- emerging contaminants
- degradation
- mechanism
- wastewater treatment
- water purification
- transformation by-products
- toxicity
- risk assessment
- health impact
- risk management
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