Wastewater Collection and Treatment: With a Focus on Environment Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (26 July 2023) | Viewed by 3461
Special Issue Editors
Interests: emerging contaminants removal; advanced oxidation process; water treatment and reuse
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: water quality enhancement; water reclamation and reuse; membrane technology for water and wastewater treatment; biotreatment processes; sustainable urban water resources management
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: emerging contaminants; physical and chemical process for water and wastewater treatment; energy and resource recovery from wastewater; carbon capture and sequestration in wastewater treatment; data science for smart water management
Interests: sustainable remediation of soil and groundwater; development and application of green environmental remediation materials; advanced oxidation treatment for wastewater; solid waste treatment and recycle utilization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
For over a century, wastewater collection and treatment have been focusing on pollution control and reduction. This conventional approach has commonly been accepted by water industry as the practical means of achieving the objective of managing our water resources. Although being able to meet the intended objectives, this conventional approach has faced challenges such as intensive energy consumption, waste generation, etc., during the treatment processes. It fits into a framework of a “linear” economy model. However, in the current energy-climate era, the desire to achieve sustainability in development has motivated the water industry to pursue greener approaches involving a “circular” economy concept. Under the “circular” economy framework, water engineering professionals should move away from the framework of a “linear” economy model that is unsustainable and resource intensive and adopt a new mindset whereby “wastes” are considered as resources. New concepts, technologies, processes, designs and operating principles should be explored and developed so that we can manage wastewater in a more sustainable way. The professionals should thus explore the concept of “circular” economy, which helps to promote sustainable development and effective resource utilization in water industry.
Therefore, we organized this Special Issue to discuss wastewater pollution control with a focus on sustainability in the world including, but not limited to, sustainability issues in the water industry faced by the world, advanced wastewater collection and treatment technologies and practices, and how to incorporate the circular economy concept in wastewater collection and treatment systems to better achieve sustainable development.
Submissions for this Special Issue could relate, but are not limited, to the following topics:
- Advanced wastewater collection and treatment systems;
- Water pollution and sustainability;
- Energy, heat and resource recovery;
- Water reclamation and reuse;
- Circular economy in water industry;
- Emerging issues relating to wastewater management.
Prof. Dr. Jiangyong Hu
Prof. Dr. Say-Leong Ong
Prof. Dr. Jie Han
Prof. Dr. Jun Dong
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- advanced wastewater collection and treatment
- sustainability
- circular economy
- emerging issues
