The challenges of urban water management and sanitary infrastructure (water supply (WSS), sewage (SS), urban drainage (UDS) systems) are increasingly frequent in Brazilian cities whether as a combined result of overcrowding and/or a lack governmental...
Sanitary sewer pipes infrastructure system being in good condition is essential for providing safe conveyance of the wastewater from homes, businesses, and industries to the wastewater treatment plants. For sanitary sewer pipes to deliver the wastewa...
The lack of biochemical stability in drinking water increases the secondary contamination risk in water supply systems and hence represents a sanitary threat to consumers. The work presented here assesses the likelihood of such risk. The assessment i...
31 October 2022
With the increasing environmental and health problems caused by residential solid waste (RSW), upgrading waste disposal services has become a key priority in rural areas of developing countries. Waste disposal services can be improved by incorporatin...
Goat production in Peru is primarily carried out under extensive systems shaped by climatic variability, forage seasonality, infrastructure limitations, and persistent sanitary pressure. In this context, Creole goats represent a strategic animal gene...
The coordinated development of rural infrastructure and ecological environment is an effective way to improve agricultural productivity. The primary focus of the current research is how the two can work together to promote regional economic developme...
The sewerage system is a vital part of the infrastructure in every settlement, and thus, of the state itself. It ensures the conveyance of sanitary wastewater from its sources (households, buildings and industrial facilities) and stormwater from urba...
Community water governance in Chile faces tension between institutional pressures to standardize rural water management and community-based logics that have sustained rural drinking water systems and their governance committees for decades. This rese...
Storm drains and sanitary sewers are prone to backups and overflows due to extra amount wastewater entering the pipes. To prevent that, it is imperative to efficiently monitor the urban underground infrastructure. The combination of sensors system an...
The wastewater conveyance systems in the United States are facing severe structural challenges, with the nation’s overall wastewater infrastructure receiving a critically low grade of D- from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Inno...
Control of water quality changes in the distribution system is an important issue, due to consumer health, and a threat to technical infrastructure. Annual monitoring of water quality allowed us to analyze the physical, chemical, and biological stabi...
The growing demands for sanitary regulations in medical facilities, particularly operating rooms, highlight the importance of ensuring high air quality and minimizing airborne hospital-acquired infections. Improperly designed ventilation systems may...
The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of electrocoagulation conditions on the removal of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) in municipal wastewater from the district of Cascas, in line with Sustainabl...
Urban sprawl promotes significant changes in land use and occupation by interfering with the dynamics of functional ecosystems. Among other things, it encourages forest fragmentation, the degradation of woodland edges, and altered habitat integrity....
This study examines the design characteristics of subway transfer station facilities in South Korea using an expanded Universal Design (UD) framework that integrates principles of sustainability. Five representative transfer stations were selected fo...
Saving fresh water is a big challenge for the next generation due to enhanced living standards and population growth. In addition, the expansion of agricultural and industrial activities is causing unmatched demands for fresh water supplies across Eg...
Sanitary wastewater discharges from recreational vessels are a difficult-to-quantify source of pressure in coastal anchorages because discharge events are intermittent, mobile and strongly dependent on user behaviour. We developed an integrated scree...
Landfills are elements of the waste management system, without possibility of further reclaiming, according to the requirements of a closed-loop economy, but with the possibility of transforming the area into other functions. The research combined mo...
Production and use of plastic products have drastically increased during the past decades and their environmental impacts are increasingly spotlighted. At the same time, coarse wool, a by-product of meat and dairy production, goes largely unexploited...
Aquatic recreation significantly enhances well-being; however, individuals experiencing functional limitations remain frequently marginalized from this form of tourism due to infrastructural and environmental barriers. This study investigates the per...
The tightening of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) regulations, along with stringent private standards in international fresh produce trade, requires citrus producers, especially in developing regions, to adopt robust compliance mechanisms. This stud...
Since food waste is a contemporary and complicated issue that is widely debated across many societal areas, the world community has designated the reduction of food waste as a crucial aspect of establishing a sustainable economy. However, waste manag...
Sanitary sewer collection systems are among the least observable urban infrastructure assets, with most utilities operating fewer than one sensor per several hundred pipes; placement drives operational value. We develop DPP-SP, a Descriptive–Pr...
Globally, tanks play a major part in the provision of access to clean drinking water to the human population. Beyond aiding in the supply of fresh water, tanks are also essential for ensuring good sanitary conditions for people and for livestock. Man...
Clinical adoption of large language models (LLMs) in public healthcare faces a structural impasse: the capital expenditure of centralised high-performance computing on one side and the privacy risk of routing patient data through third-party cloud in...
Background: Southern Brazil faced massive rains and floods in May 2024, which led to social, infrastructural, and One Health issues affecting over 478 municipalities and 2.3 million people. Exposure to floodwater increased the risk of bacterial infec...
19 February 2025
Community Restaurants (CRs), part of the Brazilian government’s Popular Restaurant Program (PRP), provide free and/or affordable nutritionally balanced meals as an essential strategy to meet the most vulnerable population’s basic needs an...
A paradigm shift in river management practice is underway, from a hard engineering-dominated emphasis that endeavours to control water, to a multi-functionality-framed approach that strives to restore a river’s ecology, scenery and ecosystem services...
Legionella pneumophila (L. pneumophila), the bacteria causing Legionnaires’ disease, a severe pneumonia with high morbidity and mortality globally. The underreporting of this disease is marked particularly in low-income African countries, where...
Rapid urbanization in developing countries intensifies solid waste management (SWM) challenges and demands integrated sustainability approaches. This study examines institutional actors’ perceptions of SWM governance and waste-to-construction-m...
28 February 2025
This study assessed the status of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services at (49) selected primary schools in uMfolozi Local Municipality, which is situated in the province of Kwa-Zulu Natal in South Africa. Data were collected using an observ...