Water Quality Monitoring and Public Health

Dear Colleagues,

Climate change and the increase in the world population will cause increased demands for pure and safe water, and ensuring sufficient water quantities will be a demanding task for many governments worldwide and one of the biggest challenges for humankind.

The World Economic Forum ranks the water crisis in the top three global risks, while the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) has proclaimed the period from 2018 to 2028 as the UN Water Action Decade to improve educational outreach related to water and water pollution control and to improve communication to achieve water-related goals.

For the achievement of those ambitious goals, it is necessary to constantly monitor water qualities of the surface water and groundwater, as well as drinking water, as well as to monitor the quality of effluents that have been discharged from wastewater treatment plants to the environment every day.

As the Guest Editor for this Special Issue, “Water Quality Monitoring and Public Health”, I have the honor of inviting you to publish a feature paper in Water, as a contribution to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, especially regarding Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation.

Within this framework, for this Special Issue, I would like to invite original research contributions, review articles, as well as short communications that emphasize and give an overview of the water qualities of the surface waters, as well as groundwaters. I would also like to invite scientists and professionals who are dealing with drinking and bottled water monitoring and monitoring of other water types (swimming pool water, sea water, irrigation water, process water) that directly or indirectly significantly can affect public health to present the results of their latest research. Please feel free to reach out to me or alexandra.wang@mdpi.com should you have any questions.

Prof. Dr. Mirna Habuda-Stanic
Guest Editor

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