Wastewater Treatment and Reuse for Sustainable Water Resources Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 46123
Special Issue Editors
2. University Institute of Water and Environmental Sciences, University of Alicante, S03690 Alicante, Spain
Interests: hydrological modelling; wastewater; desalination; global change; agriculture water demands; soil erosion
Interests: agricultural economic; valorisation; wastewater; sociology; water resources; agricultural policy
Interests: desalination; water transfers; wastewater treatment; water economics; water scarcity; water pricing; desalination companies; water governance; water policy; water sustainability
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Interests: production techniques; food crops; sustainable development; environmental management; waste management; water management; wastewater
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Currently, in the global context of water management, where agricultural, urban, and industrial water demands are continuously increasing, mainly due to population growth, socio-economic development, and changing consumption patterns, the reclamation of treated wastewaters should be considered a new source of unconventional resources, whose management must be included in the comprehensive planning of water resources, taking into account economic, social, and environmental issues. In particular, global water demand is expected to continue increasing, with a rate of about 1% per year until 2050, accounting for an enlargement of 20–30% above the current level of water use. Thus, water reuse can extend the usage of water, increasing the availability of water resources. Consequently, reclaimed water can be used in traditional processes that do not require high-quality water, releasing volumes of better-quality water for other and more demanding uses. In many countries, environmental limitations, together with several and prolonged droughts (as a result of climate change effects), have led populations to consider the use of treated waters as an additional water source for uses without drinking water quality requirements. However, over 2 billion people now live in countries with high water stress, and about 4 billion people experience severe water scarcity during at least one month of the year.
This Special Issue is looking for original research exploring global driving forces and human activities determining the sustainability of wastewater treatment and reuse, including but not limited to:
- Studies of wastewater reuse and treatment (encompassing water quality and quantity).
- Environmental analyses assessing the sustainability of this unconventional resource and its relation with linked areas of research such as surface hydrology, groundwater, ecology, global change, etc.
- Agricultural studies evaluating, for instance, irrigation with purified wastewater, water resources management and similar issues.
- Economic, sociological and political works studying the benefits and harms of wastewater treatment and reuse at many scales (global, European, national, local, etc.).
We welcome the submission of innovative papers describing case studies of one or more of the above scientific fields, applying exploration and modelling techniques, describing a specific computational tool and/or comparing several of the existing ones, and introducing new algorithms and software platforms. We also welcome disruptive proposals presented from a holistic perspective that make a significant advancement in the above scientific fields, as well as reviews describing the state-of-the-art in these fields and scopes.
Dr. Antonio Jódar Abellán
Prof. Dr. Maria De Los Desamparados Melian Navarro
Prof. Dr. Francisco De Borja Montaño Sanz
Prof. Dr. Pablo Melgarejo Moreno
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wastewater reuse and treatment
- water resources management
- water and environment
- water and agriculture
- hydrology
- global change
- economy
- sociology
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