Special Issue "Municipal Wastewater Treatment 2020"

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: 31 December 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. José M. Carrillo
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Department of Mining and Civil Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, 30203 Cartagena, Spain
Interests: CFD modeling; two-phase flows; experimental methods and instrumentation; modeling of sewage systems; monitoring; pollutants
Dr. Juan Tomás García-Bermejo
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Department of Mining and Civil Engineering, Technical University of Cartagena, Cartagena, 30203, Spain
Interests: planning and maintenance of hydraulic urban infrastructure; sewer processes; sediment transport modeling; experimental hydraulics
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Dr. Jose Anta Alvarez
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Centre for Technological Innovations in Construction and Civil Engineering (CITEEC), University of A Coruña, Galicia 15001, Spain
Interests: urban hydrology; runoff and wash-off processes; sewer sediments; combined sewer overflows; imaging techniques
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Clean water, appropriate sanitation and good hygiene practices are essential for human development. Goal 6 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aims to “ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all”.  In response to the global goals, UNICEF has developed a new Strategy for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) that provides a framework to guide our work related to water, sanitation and hygiene over the next 15 years.

Sanitation is vital for public health, education and the economy. Although important improvements have been reached in recent decades, adequate municipal wastewater treatment conditions are not universal. The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP) 2017 update estimated that 61% of the global population in 2015 (4.5 billion people) lacked safely managed sanitation services. Among other problems, insufficient treatment of wastewater and fecal sludge spreads disease and is a driver of antimicrobial resistance. Besides this, demand for wastewater as source water and nutrients for agriculture is expected to increase in the coming years due to climate change, and water demand is expected to increase due to population growth. Considering the current and expected water stress and water quality problems, evidence is needed to design appropriate adaptation policies.

This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) will focus on the current state of knowledge on municipal wastewater treatment and sewage conveyance, including centralized and decentralized wastewater management strategies for small to medium communities. New research papers, reviews and case reports are welcome for this Special Issue. Papers dealing with new approaches to derive municipal wastewater treatment guidelines or risk assessment and management are also welcome. Other manuscript types accepted include methodological papers, position papers, brief reports and commentaries.

We will accept manuscripts from different disciplines, including sanitary engineering, hydraulic engineering, biochemical processes and pollutants transport in sewer networks, exposure assessment science, epidemiology, intervention studies, risk and health impact assessments, risk management in the area of municipal wastewater treatment and advanced treatments and technologies for the recycling and reuse of municipal wastewater.

Dr. José M. Carrillo
Dr. Juan Tomás García-Bermejo
Dr. Jose Anta Alvarez
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • municipal wastewater treatment
  • decentralized systems
  • sanitation safety planning
  • safe use of wastewater, excreta and greywater
  • sewage systems
  • health benefits associated with municipal wastewater treatment
  • infectious diseases
  • climate change and municipal wastewater treatment
  • wastewater for use in agriculture
  • numerical modeling
  • monitoring
  • pollutants
  • emerging contaminants
  • chemicals
  • microorganisms
  • sewer processes
  • sewage testing for COVID-19
  • recycle and reuse advanced treatments of municipal wastewater

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Spatio-Temporal Distribution and Influencing Factors of Human and Veterinary Pharmaceuticals in the Tributary Surface Waters of the Han River Watershed, South Korea
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(15), 7969; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18157969 - 28 Jul 2021
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Human and veterinary pharmaceuticals are being increasingly used for disease treatment; hence, their distribution and factors influencing them in the aquatic environment need to be investigated. This study observed the effect of human and animal populations, usage, purchasing criteria (prescription vs. non-prescription), and [...] Read more.
Human and veterinary pharmaceuticals are being increasingly used for disease treatment; hence, their distribution and factors influencing them in the aquatic environment need to be investigated. This study observed the effect of human and animal populations, usage, purchasing criteria (prescription vs. non-prescription), and land use to identify the spatio-temporal distribution of eight pharmaceuticals at twenty-four sites of the tributaries of the Han River watershed. In rural areas, the mean concentration (detection frequency) of non-prescription pharmaceuticals (NPPs) was higher (lower) compared to that of prescription pharmaceuticals (PPs); in urban areas, a reverse trend was observed. Pharmaceutical concentrations in urban and rural areas were mainly affected by wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and non-point sources, respectively; concentrations were higher downstream (4.9 times) than upstream of the WWTPs. The concentration distribution (according to the target) was as follows: human–veterinary > human > veterinary. Correlation between total concentration and total usage of the pharmaceuticals was high, except for NPPs. Most livestock and land use (except cropland) were significantly positively correlated with pharmaceutical concentrations. Concentrations were mainly higher (1.5 times) during cold seasons than during warm seasons. The results of this study can assist policymakers in managing pharmaceutical pollutants while prioritizing emerging pollutants. Full article
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The Potential of Chaetoceros muelleri in Bioremediation of Antibiotics: Performance and Optimization
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(3), 977; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18030977 - 22 Jan 2021
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Antibiotics are frequently applied to treat bacterial infections in humans and animals. However, most consumed antibiotics are excreted into wastewater as metabolites or in their original form. Therefore, removal of antibiotics from aquatic environments is of high research interest. In this study, we [...] Read more.
Antibiotics are frequently applied to treat bacterial infections in humans and animals. However, most consumed antibiotics are excreted into wastewater as metabolites or in their original form. Therefore, removal of antibiotics from aquatic environments is of high research interest. In this study, we investigated the removal of sulfamethoxazole (SMX) and ofloxacin (OFX) with Chaetoceros muelleri, a marine diatom. The optimization process was conducted using response surface methodology (RSM) with two independent parameters, i.e., the initial concentration of antibiotics and contact time. The optimum removal of SMX and OFX were 39.8% (0.19 mg L−1) and 42.5% (0.21 mg L−1) at the initial concentration (0.5 mg L−1) and contact time (6.3 days). Apart from that, the toxicity effect of antibiotics on the diatom was monitored in different SMX and OFX concentrations (0 to 50 mg L−1). The protein (mg L−1) and carotenoid (μg L−1) content increased when the antibiotic concentration increased up to 20 mg L−1, while cell viability was not significantly affected up to 20 mg L−1 of antibiotic concentration. Protein content, carotenoid, and cell viability decreased during high antibiotic concentrations (more than 20 to 30 mg L−1). This study revealed that the use of Chaetoceros muelleri is an appealing solution to remove certain antibiotics from wastewater. Full article
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