Drinking Water Quality and Health Risk Assessment

Dear Colleagues,

Today, we are more active than ever on the Earth, and the damage to ecology is greater than ever. Water ecology needs to be protected better, and people's health should also receive more attention. At present, the safety of drinking water supply faces problems, such as pollution of drinking water sources, insufficient water quality, backward treatment technology of existing water supply plants, and pollution of the water supply pipe network system. However, at the same time, the demand for high-quality drinking water is increasing. This contradiction inevitably poses a huge risk to the quality of drinking water. These threats include organic matter, heavy metals, nutrients, emerging pollutants, and more. The main objective of this topic is to collect new monitoring, assessment, and treatment techniques related to drinking water quality. We welcome the use of successful risk assessment models to assess the quality of water affected by the environment, including disinfection by-products, nutrients, heavy metals, organics, microplastics, metal nanoparticles, and more. It also includes an assessment of water quality caused by human actions, such as human mining, industrial wastewater discharge, and agricultural activities. New water treatment technologies are also very welcome. The main purpose of this special is to promote people's attention to drinking water and raise awareness of people’s health. The topics of this special issue are as follows, but are not limited to:

• Environmental impact assessment on source water;
• pollutant monitoring and evaluation and its new technologies;
• new technologies for drinking water treatment;
• the migration and transformation processes of pollutants;
• monitoring, treatment, and protection technology of drinking water in pipe networks;
• new model for assessment of water quality using artificial intelligence.

Prof. Dr. Guocheng Zhu
Guest Editor

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