River Pollutant Dispersion and Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 464
Special Issue Editor
Interests: fluvial hydraulics; entropy; hydraulic modelling; environmental vulnerability and resilience; virtual reality laboratories and augmented reality applications; hydraulic engineering education
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Rivers play a pivotal role in ecological and human health as well as in the economic development of territories, representing the main water supply for domestic use, irrigation, and industrial activities. Nevertheless, their water quality is threatened by physical, chemical, and biological pollutants originating from different point and diffuse sources within basins. Rapid population growth, the expansion of economic activities, and urban sprawl are leading to a greater demand for high‐quality water, which often cannot be satisfied by locally available resources, while the discharge of insufficiently treated wastewater raises costs for downstream users. The situation is further exacerbated by the current climate change, which, exposing rivers to frequent and extreme variations of temperature and fluvial regime (droughts and floods), contributes to their degradation, to lowering the efficiency of natural purification processes, and to greater detrimental effects on aquatic life.
Detailed knowledge of the different processes linked to pollutant dispersion in rivers can help to provide reliable information on the degradation status of rivers and identify the mitigation measures and actions that need to be implemented in order to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Observational data provide an understanding of the concentrations of water pollutants in rivers and their impacts. In fact, monitoring activity remains essential not only to mark the paths of pollutants in free surface flows but also to support the development and evaluate the performance of analytical and numerical models. On the other hand, numerical modelling has become an important tool, especially
when observed water quality data are scarce, for helping us to improve our understanding of existing and potential water quality changes.
The main purpose of the present Special Issue is to provide an overview of the most recent research on the developments of the monitoring techniques and numerical modelling of pollutant dispersion in rivers. We would like to invite you to submit original research as well as review articles to share new challenges and opportunities in this field. This Special Issue would like to cover various aspects ranging from monitoring to the numerical modelling of pollutant dispersion in rivers, and from water quality and contamination sources assessment to the achievement of the SDGs.
Dr. Domenica Mirauda
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Water quality monitoring
- Sustainable development goals
- Sustainable water management
- Analytical and numerical modelling
- Pollutant dispersion
- Rivers
- Water quality assessment
- Decision support system
- Contamination sources
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