Research and Technology for Water & Wastewater Management in a Sustainable Environment
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 1819
Special Issue Editor
Interests: water purification; eutrophication; wastewater management; circular economy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Improving water resource management to ensure that everyone has access to safe and clean water is critical for essential human survival. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development highlights the importance of water in Goal 6, which aims to “ensure access to water and sanitation for all” (SDGs).
Nowadays, we are experiencing a global pandemic that is leading us to a new normal. COVID-19 had a significant adverse impact on our lives. Providing safe and clean water for all is a critical element in fighting this crisis. On the other hand, urban wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) can be a significant part of circular sustainability due to the integration of resource recovery and energy production during clean water production. Nutrient recycling from WWTPs has a positive impact on the environment by reducing the demand for conventional chemical fertilizers and consequently reducing the consumption of water and energy.
This Special Issue will contribute to this objective by collecting articles addressing the development and application of current and novel water and wastewater treatment technologies from a sustainability perspective. The Special Issue focuses mainly on modern water and wastewater technologies. It aims to stimulate the interest of scientists about the latest developments in the field of water and wastewater management.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not are limited to) the following:
- Reusing water and sewage sludge in agriculture.
- Wastewater, biosolids, and sludge management, including their quality, planning, standards, regulations, policy, monitoring, and analysis.
- Advanced wastewater oxidation processes and their role in water reuse.
- Resource recovery, including phosphate and nitrogen recovery, in natural waters and wastewaters.
- Pharmaceutical contaminants in wastewater and novel treatment technologies.
- Water and wastewater pollution control for 21st century challenges.
- Constructed wetlands: a sustainable technology for domestic and industrial wastewater treatment.
- Medical and healthcare wastewater treatment.
- Modelling methods in water, wastewater, biosolids, and sludge related research.
- Economic and social aspects of water, wastewater, biosolids, and sludge management.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Miltiadis Zamparas
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- water and wastewater management
- biosolids
- resource recovery
- circular economy
