Sustainable Governance for Resilient Water and Sanitation Service
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water and One Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 September 2023) | Viewed by 6148
Special Issue Editor
Interests: wastewater; source separation; decentralized wastewater treatment; constructed wetland; nutrient recovery; disinfection; antibiotics; antibiotics resistance bacteria and gene
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Centralized wastewater treatment, especially with active sludge processing, has been operated for hundreds of years, becoming the main method of wastewater treatment. However, we have to face the challenges of urbanization and an increasing population. Source separation has been attractive in recent years since it is beneficial to water, nutrients, and it can be flexible in operation as a centralized, semi-centralized and decentralized treatment. Besides, wastewater carries quantities of pathogens and micropollutants, which promotes health risks by waterborne disease transfer, and alternatives for traditional disinfectants are urgently required. We have seen some robust technologies, such as UV-LED and photocatalysis, but the knowledge is still limited. Furthermore, antimicrobial resistance has become a new issue, and it is noted that wastewater treatment plants are a hotspot of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and genes; nevertheless, technology for antimicrobial resistance control is a considerable challenge.
This Special Issue will collect state-of-the-art knowledge on wastewater treatment. Studies on new techniques for nutrient recovery, disinfection, antibiotics resistance bacteria and gene removal, and in particular, wastewater treatment by source separation or decentralized management, are of specific interest. Review papers, as well as experimental/empirical studies on wastewater treatment, are welcome as well.
Dr. Xiaoqin Zhou
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- wastewater
- wastewater treatment
- source separation
- resource recovery
- disinfection
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