Integrated Approaches of the Water Use Cycle: Technical and Environmental Challenges for Sustainability
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Use and Scarcity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2020) | Viewed by 11880
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wastewater/water treatment; wastewater recycling and reuse; sustainability assessments (life cycle assessment; water footprint; carbon footprint; environmental integrated impact and risk assessment); integrated water resources management; waste management and valorization
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Interests: sustainability assessments and instruments (life cycle assessments, carbon footprint, sustainability indicators); waste management (municipal solid waste, industrial waste, end-of-life vehicles, e-waste); anaerobic digestion; municipal and hazardous waste disposal; valorization of bottom ash; water and wastewater treatment; energy efficiency and GHG emissions of the urban water cycle
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We encourage you to submit papers for an important Special Issue of Water focused on the integrated approaches of the water use cycle and their technical and environmental challenges for sustainability. The water use cycle (consisting of water abstraction, treatment, distribution, use, wastewater collection, wastewater treatment and discharge/reuse) is a system with high complexity, influenced by many factors: water use and wastewater management practices, changes in the water quality caused by the temporal and spatial dynamics of water resource availability, and uncertainties due to extreme weather phenomena (floods, droughts), accidental pollution or climate change. The ultimate goal of this complex system is to manage in an integrated way the water resources in order to control all the potential hazards (environmental impacts and health risks) related to water use. The integrated approaches of environmental, technical, operational and management problems within the water use cycle may decrease the pressure upon the limited water resources and contribute to sustainable water use.
Papers for this Special Issue should consider innovative and integrated research into water treatment and distribution, wastewater treatment and the recycling/reuse of water or materials recovery in the sense of diminishing the environmental impacts and risks generated in the water use cycle. Additionally, papers might describe approaches that integrate technical novelty and sustainability assessment instruments, such as life cycle assessment, carbon footprint, water footprint, sustainability indicators, etc. Case studies that consider pilot or full scale applications of water/wastewater innovative technologies in the context of the circular economy and energy efficiency are suitable for this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Ing. Carmen Teodosiu
Prof. Dr. Silvia Fiore
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Water use cycle
- Water treatment
- Wastewater treatment
- Sustainability assessments
- Life cycle assessment
- Carbon and water footprint
- Environmental impacts and risks quantification
- Resource recovery
- Energy efficiency
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