Wastewater Treatment and Public Health Surveillance: Advances and Challenges in the One Health Era
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water and One Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2025 | Viewed by 109
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microbiology; cold-plasma; wastewater-based epidemiology; wastewater treatment; water pollution; environmental biotechnology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue, entitled "Wastewater Treatment and Public Health Surveillance: Advances and Challenges in the One Health Era", focuses on the critical intersections of wastewater treatment technologies and wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) within the One Health framework. While the COVID-19 pandemic spurred significant advancements in pathogen detection through wastewater surveillance, substantial gaps remain in addressing the broader scope of emerging biological and chemical pollutants that threaten human, animal, and environmental health. This Special Issue aims to foster a comprehensive understanding of how wastewater treatment and WBE can evolve to address these emerging challenges. Specifically, it seeks to explore innovations in water treatment technologies aimed at removing complex pollutants, including antibiotics, pharmaceuticals, antimicrobial-resistant bacteria (ARB), antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs), pathogens, contaminants of emerging concern (CEC), and microplastics.
By highlighting these areas, this Special Issue will emphasize the potential of WBE as a vital tool for global health surveillance, capable of tracking disease outbreaks, chemical exposures, and antimicrobial resistance patterns in real time. It will also investigate novel technologies and methodologies for wastewater treatment and environmental monitoring, including biosensors and other advanced techniques.
This Special Issue seeks to consolidate and expand the knowledge gained in the field, promoting the integration of innovative treatment technologies and WBE for a safer, more sustainable future. We invite researchers to submit original studies, reviews, and case studies that address these challenges, contributing to a holistic understanding of how wastewater treatment can play a pivotal role in safeguarding ecosystems and public health.
Dr. José Gonçalves
Dr. Israel Diaz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wastewater treatment
- one health
- wastewater-based epidemiology
- emerging pollutants
- antimicrobial resistance
- microplastics
- environmental monitoring
- biosensors
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