Special Issue "Environmental Water Monitoring for Sustainable Development in Urban and Rural Areas"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Ecology and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Ioannis Papoutsis
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Institute of Astronomy, Astrophyiscs, Space Applications and Remote Sensing, National Observatory of Athens, Athens, Greece
Interests: Earth Observation; synthetic aperture radar; SAR interferometry, Persistent Scatterer Interferometry, machine learning and information extraction, disaster management
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Dr. Demetrios Eliades
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Assistant Guest Editor
KIOS Research Centre, University of Cyprus (UCY), Nicosia, Cyprus
Interests: intelligent systems; smart water networks
Dr. Stefanos Vrochidis
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Assistant Guest Editor
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Information Technologies Institure (ITI), Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: multimedia analysis; artificial intelligence; web and social media mining; semantics; information retrieval; multimodal analytics; decision support; security; health and environmental applications
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Dr. Ilias Gialampoukidis
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Chief Guest Editor
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Information Technologies Institure (ITI), Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: multimodal fusion; information retrieval; data mining in social media; earth observation

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and improve the lives and prospects of everyone, everywhere. The 17 Goals were adopted by all UN Member States in 2015, as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development which set out a 15-year plan to achieve the Goals. Among these, Goal 6 refers to “Ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all”. This decomposes to focused targets, including the improvement of water quality by reducing pollution, increasing water-use efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of freshwater to address water scarcity, implementing an integrated water resources management at all levels, and protecting and restoring water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes.

To this end, new technologies have emerged for monitoring water resources over the last years, which aim to secure the society’s long-term resilience, stability, sustainability and security. According to Water Europe the challenges of the water sector are pertinent to water quality monitoring, water quantity monitoring, and mitigation of the effects of climate change, via monitoring the more frequent extreme weather events such as floods or severe drought periods. The abundance data on the monitoring of water resources is expected to create new emerging technologies and innovative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and big data analytics techniques for sustainable development in urban and rural areas.

This special issue aims to publish high-quality research papers on the inter-disciplinary field of real-time water quality and quantity monitoring, flood mapping and risk assessment, using low-cost sensors, satellite images, UAVs, CCTVs, photonic technologies and community-based in-situ observations from social media and crowdsourcing platforms. Big data analytics aim to extract meaningful insights and patterns from very large and heterogeneous data sources in water resource monitoring. Multimodal data fusion aims to effectively combine data and information from the abovementioned technologies. Semantic technologies may also offer novel mitigation strategies through the enrichment of extracted knowledge, interlinking and reasoning for decision-making. Moreover, model-based and simulation-based approaches can be considered to optimize the operation and reduce the risk of an unforeseen event. Novel methodologies, frameworks and tools should include both experimental evaluation and valuable recommendations for policymakers in the water sector.

Dr. Ilias Gialampoukidis
Dr. Stefanos Vrochidis
Dr. Ioannis Papoutsis
Dr. Demetris Eliadis
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • water quality
  • water management
  • water scarcity
  • flash floods
  • climate change
  • sensor networks
  • crowdsourcing
  • earth observation

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Modern Analytical Techniques for Detection of Bacteria in Surface and Wastewaters
Sustainability 2021, 13(13), 7229; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137229 - 28 Jun 2021
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Contamination of surface waters with pathogens as well as all diseases associated with such events are a significant concern worldwide. In recent decades, there has been a growing interest in developing analytical methods with good performance for the detection of this category of [...] Read more.
Contamination of surface waters with pathogens as well as all diseases associated with such events are a significant concern worldwide. In recent decades, there has been a growing interest in developing analytical methods with good performance for the detection of this category of contaminants. The most important analytical methods applied for the determination of bacteria in waters are traditional ones (such as bacterial culturing methods, enzyme-linked immunoassay, polymerase chain reaction, and loop-mediated isothermal amplification) and advanced alternative methods (such as spectrometry, chromatography, capillary electrophoresis, surface-enhanced Raman scattering, and magnetic field-assisted and hyphenated techniques). In addition, optical and electrochemical sensors have gained much attention as essential alternatives for the conventional detection of bacteria. The large number of available methods have been materialized by many publications in this field aimed to ensure the control of water quality in water resources. This study represents a critical synthesis of the literature regarding the latest analytical methods covering comparative aspects of pathogen contamination of water resources. All these aspects are presented as representative examples, focusing on two important bacteria with essential implications on the health of the population, namely Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli. Full article
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