Emerging (Bio)Technologies for Water Quality and Wastewater Treatments: Impacts on the Environment, Economy and Public Health
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (22 April 2022) | Viewed by 3053
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microbial and molecular biotechnology; environmental and human microbiology; antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance; human disease and public health
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Contamination and depletion of water resources are a global concern, both socially and economically, and, above all, in terms of public health, since water pollution can even lead to human death. A recent study quantified the impact of water pollution at about 1.8 million deaths in 2015.
The balance between water demand and world development is threatened directly by the exploitation of water resources for food production, industrialization, urbanization, and energy production, and indirectly by climate change. This balance will tend to weaken further, as there is a perceived increase in the need to use water resources for the production of food and energy due to the increase in population density in line with technological and industrial advances. Therefore, not only the depletion of water resources but also their concomitant pollution is a serious danger to the availability of freshwater, which is essential for human activity and health. Thus, preventive strategies are needed at the political, social, and economic levels to combat this problem, but corrective technological alternatives are also needed to decontaminate the planet's aquatic resources.
One promising strategy is investing in the treatment and reutilization of wastewaters since these are generated by the increase in human and industrial activities. Investment in more efficient, sustainable, green technologies that support the circular economy will not only contribute to the environment but will have a strong impact on public health.
In this Special Issue, we invite you to contribute with your state-of-the-art research including water quality, water pollution, water ecotoxicity, waterborne diseases, water contaminants wastewater treatment use of new biological treatments, biotechnological technologies, biosensors, and nanotechnologies.
Prof. Dr. Rúben Fernandes
Prof. Dr. Jean-Bernard Michel
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- water quality
- wastewater treatments
- waterborne diseases
- microbial pathogens
- water pollutants
- microbial and industrial biotechnology
- energetics and bioenergetics
- ecotoxicology
- water policies
- water economy
- water public health and epidemiology
