Urban Water Consumption and Sustainability

Dear Colleagues,

The world population is growing and at the same time there is a development of urbanization going on. In all continents, more and more people live in cities and depend on the availability of fresh water in the cities. These developments increase the pressure on withdrawal of fresh water resources for urban water consumption. Fresh water resources are depleted due to changing climatic conditions. Moreover, there is a growing competition between different economic activities (households, industries etc.) for the use of water resources. Furthermore, due to the increasing water consumption in urban areas the wastewater discharge is also increasing which cause increasing environmental pollution and associated health issues.

The studies of the Topical Collection are expected to address one of the following issues:

• The development of water consumption in urban areas and associated developments such as waste water and water-related environmental pollution.
• Drivers of urban water consumption and associated developments such a waste water discharge and environmental pollution.
• Rural-urban interactions with respect to availability of water for consumption in urban areas.
• Economic and environmental assessments of technological solutions to reduce the environmental impact of water consumption in urban areas.
• Assessment of supply and demand for water in urban areas such as competing claims, water markets, water pricing, payment for environmental services etc.).
• New challenges such as the emerging issues of medicine residues in waste water, water reuse opportunities etc. related to urban water consumption.

Dr. Vincent Linderhof
Collection Editor

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