Towards a Sustainable Water Future
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2022)
Special Issue Editor
Interests: water security; economics; global water policy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As the world’s water problems are accelerating in scale and intensity, both locally and globally, complexity in water systems is constantly increasing to respond to growing demands. Our journey towards a sustainable water future requires a balance between the needs of humankind and the needs of nature, recognizing the interdependence of the two. Investment in physical and natural infrastructure is recognized as a critical need in securing water security and supporting environment and development. While traditional engineering approaches without question yield immediate benefits in addressing a target water problem, results suggest that hard engineering typically incurs higher fixed costs, often outstrips the technical capacity to operate and maintain it, and in many cases destroys the environmental systems that serve as the foundation or source for renewable water supplies.
There is a lack of knowledge around identifying areas of high environmental value where hard engineering infrastructure could be avoided or in identifying areas where green infrastructure can jointly help to support the maintenance of ecosystem services and benefit the population (e.g., agricultural productivity). It is important to communicate to policy and decision makers how different risk (at a different scale) exists in infrastructure planning and how we can minimize such risk without compromising to meet human water security.
The Special Issue will be a collection of papers from top authors on how traditional engineering in combination with green approaches could be a cost-effective pathway toward achieving human water security and stimulate innovation in water systems that rely both on traditional engineering and environmental services.
Dr. Anik Bhaduri
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sustainable development
- green infrastructure
- grey infrastructure
- investment
- water security
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