Groundwater Protection: Contaminant Transport Processes and Remediation Approaches

Dear Colleagues,

The protection of groundwater is an issue that concerns the entire world. Almost everywhere, drinking water supply systems use groundwater.  Understanding the main processes occurring in the contamination phase or in the remediation approach is fundamental in maximizing the efficiency of the technologies used for restoring water quality. New technologies need experimental studies to be implemented at the field scale; experimental activity brings new knowledge for numerical approaches that are equally fundamental for a correct and eco-sustainable design and application of remediation technologies. The study of sustainable, effective remediation technologies is a significant challenge of the scientific community, and it has a strong influence on the health and livelihood of billions of people worldwide. The focus of this Special Issue is, therefore, to present advances in the contamination/remediation processes, including new findings on the basic processes involved and new approaches that can be effective for groundwater remediation. The topics of the selected papers should bring innovative approaches on the above mentioned arguments.

Water, especially groundwater, is a fundamental resource for the development and survival of entire areas. Often, contamination processes occur, determining long periods of pollution with no possibility to restore availability of the waters for human activities. Long-lasting sources due to separate phases or to portions of fine-grained soil completely filled with pollutants represent enormous problems that oblige the use of expensive and unsustainable technologies, both from an economic and social point of view. In this context, this issue is devoted to innovative technologies and a new and deeper understanding of the processes, with the main aim of introducing new and more sustainable approaches to the remediation of contaminated groundwater. Numerical and experimental studies aimed at deepening the understanding of contamination processes, of interactions of pollutants with the environmental matrices, and studies involving the use of novel materials in the framework of the sustainable remediation will be the main topics of the Special Issue.

Dr. Paolo Viotti
Guest Editor

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