Water and Wastewater Management in the Context of Environmental Sustainability
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Wastewater Treatment and Reuse".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 49
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wastewater/water treatment; wastewater recycling and reuse; sustainability assessments (life cycle assessment; water footprint; carbon footprint; environmental integrated impact and risk assessment); integrated water resources management; waste management and valorization
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Interests: environmental quality monitoring; pollution treatment; impact and risk assessment; sustainability and circularity indicators
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Considering the urban water management challenges, the best options for water and wastewater treatment and management must be linked to circular economy concepts, which transform water and wastewater (effluents and sludge) from waste streams into valuable resources. Urban water management challenges nowadays refer to the removal of emerging/priority pollutants, energy requirements and greenhouse gas emissions, economic and social acceptance of innovative technologies, and decreased quality of water supply sources due to industrial and municipal pollution and climate changes. Water and wastewater treatment plants should be considered as important representatives of circular economy by integration of the renewable energy generation and resources recovery. Resources recovery from the municipal/industrial wastewater plants in the form of wastewater that might be recycled or reused, energy, nutrients and other resources need adequate strategies and treatment processes. Drinking or industrial water treatment plants as well as wastewater treatment for recycling and reuse and sludge treatment requires advanced and innovative processes (such as membranes, advanced oxidation, biological, adsorption, disinfection, etc.) which should be integrated within the conventional treatment or developed as separate modules so as to make treatment plants more financially and environmentally sustainable. Several tools and indicators for the sustainability assessment of urban water management could be applied for the evaluation of novel materials and processes, such as: life cycle assessment, carbon footprint assessment, integrated assessments and more.
Potential topics of research or review articles may include, but are not limited to the following:
- novel processes and technologies for urban water or wastewater treatment such as: membranes, advanced oxidation, biological, adsorption etc.
- innovative and advanced materials applied in water or wastewater treatment processes
- assessment of water and wastewater treatment plants or processes considering the circular economy concepts and sustainability instruments,
- conception of technological processes applied to wastewater treatment recycling and re-use, nutrients recovery
- integration of advanced processes within the conventional technological flow of water and wastewater treatment,
- sludge management and valorization.
Prof. Dr. Carmen Teodosiu
Dr. Brindusa Sluser
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- advanced wastewater treatment
- water treatment
- circular economy
- innovative materials
- innovative processes
- urban water management
- nutrient recovery
- wastewater recycling and re-use
- emerging pollutants
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