Sustainable and Best Available Technologies (BATs) for Wastewater and Sludge Treatment/Management in the Global South
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Wastewater Treatment and Reuse".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2024) | Viewed by 3393
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainability and policies in water management
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: microbial fuel cell application for wastewater treatment; desalination of wastewater; studies on anaerobic-aerobic package sewage treatment plant for small community; design and operation of UASB reactor for organic wastewater treatment; bio-energy recovery during waste treatment; reuse of treated wastewater; water treatment for public water supply and sewage & industrial wastewater treatment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Global South still lacks suitable wastewater and sludge treatment technologies. There are emerging solutions, such as the so-called CATNEP (cheapest available technology not entailing prosecution) technologies, whose implementation have only worsened the problem of wasterwater pollution in the Global South. Recent international standards such as ISO 30500 (non-sewered sanitation systems—prefabricated integrated treatment units—general safety and performance requirements for design and testing) or ISO 31800 (fecal sludge treatment units—energy-independent, prefabricated, community-scale, resource recovery units—safety and performance requirements) have suggested a comprehensive set of strict environmental emission thresholds, leading to the development of BATs (best available technologies). However, BATs may still not be sustainable in the context of Global South.
In this Special Issue, we invite papers that analyze BATs in the Global South context and present viable approaches to solve wastewater management problems that may be considered as both best available and sustainable.
Dr. Markus Starkl
Prof. Dr. Makarand M. Ghangrekar
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- assessment
- best available
- innovative
- non-sewered
- policies
- sludge
- sustainable
- treatment
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