Development of New Wastewater Treatments for the Efficient Removal of Micropollutants
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Wastewater Treatment and Reuse".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 November 2025 | Viewed by 702
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Interests: water pollution and contamination; water purification; wastewater treatment; sustainable treatment processes; circular economy; biomass energy; biowastes management and valorization; novel materials: production, characterization and utilization
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Interests: wastewater treatments; sustainable treatment processes; tertiary treatments; biosorption; advanced oxidation processes; biowastes valorization (sorbent and biofilm prodution); emerging contaminants
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Interests: environmental engineering; characterization of samples (water, wastewater, surface water, soil, sludge, solid wastes); water treatment; wastewater treatment; valorization of biowastes; adsorption; advanced oxidation processes; ecotoxicity; removal of pharmaceuticals and microplastics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The scientific community, stakeholders, and policymakers are concerned with the presence of micropollutants in water bodies, and their potential chronic hazardous effects on ecosystems. Micropollutants include a wide range of substances such as pharmaceutical and perfluorinated compounds, pesticides, microplastics, trace metals, etc.
Water resources are coming under increasing pressure, leading to water scarcity and a deterioration in water quality. The reuse of properly treated wastewater, for example, from urban wastewater treatment plants, is considered to have a lower environmental impact than other alternative water supply methods. Efficient, sustainable and cost-effective treatment processes are needed to remove these micropollutants from wastewater. Such removal is necessary to safeguard public health in alignment with the One Health approach, which seeks to sustainably balance and optimize the health of humans, animals, and ecosystems. Furthermore, the effective elimination of micropollutants would enable the safe reuse of treated wastewater, thus reducing the abstraction of freshwater from surface and groundwater bodies and facilitating the more sustainable management of water resources. We would like to invite researchers to contribute to this Special Issue and share advances in wastewater treatment, potentially enhancing the circular management of water while protecting biodiversity.
Prof. Dr. Marta Otero
Dr. Olga Matos de Freitas
Dr. Sónia Figueiredo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- circular management of water
- ecotoxicity
- emerging concern contaminants
- environmental monitoring
- life cycle assessment
- quaternary treatments
- reuse of treated wastewater
- sustainable treatment processes
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