Water Environment Problems and Governance
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 323
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wastewater treatment; waste recycling; groundwater; adsorption; biochar; environmental pollution; heavy metal pollution
Interests: wastewater treatment; contaminated soil and groundwater treatment; micro soil mechanics; particular soil; heavy metal contamination
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Water environment problems and governance are extremely important for environmental protection and human health. With the development of society, the economy, and industry, the problem of water pollution becomes more and more serious. Water pollution can be caused by various anthropogenic activities, including industrial pollution, agricultural pollution, and domestic pollution. Organic and inorganic (such as heavy metals) substances are the main water pollutants. Major treatment methods for water environmental problems include physical methods, chemical methods, and biological methods.
This Special Issue of the Sustainability focuses on the current state of knowledge on water environment problems and governance. New research papers, reviews, case reports, and conference papers are welcome to this Special Issue. Papers dealing with new approaches to treat water environmental problems, pollution, and the assessment of the effects of treatment methods as well as governance are also welcome. Other manuscript types accepted include methodological papers, position papers, brief reports, and commentaries.
We will accept manuscripts from different disciplines; below are some examples of topics that could be addressed in this Special Issue:
- Water resource pollution;
- Contaminants at water sources, such as natural contaminants, anthropogenic chemicals, etc.;
- Treatment methods for water pollution;
- Impact of water environment pollution on human health;
- Governance of water environment problems;
- Characterization of pollution and pollution remediation effects, such as electrical resistivity;
- Groundwater environment pollution;
- Environmental problems under rainfall conditions;
- Numerical analyses for water effects;
- Other topics concerning water environment problems and governance.
Dr. Xiaofeng Liu
Dr. Xin Xu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- water resource
- heavy metal
- organic pollutants
- treatment technology
- water environment governance
- groundwater
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