Innovative Water Treatment Technology for Sustainability, Volume II

Dear Colleagues,

In the last two decades, worldwide accessibility to safe water has dramatically improved. However, water pollution issues are still common not only in developing countries but also in developed countries. Especially in many developing countries, people consume unsafe drinking water often containing pathogens, mainly due to insufficient control or management of water and sewerage. Simply put, they cannot afford to build infrastructure to manage these pathogens.

On the other hand, developed countries, which have good infrastructure to control disease-causing microbes, are facing new contaminants emerging from industrialization or urbanization, for example pharmaceuticals, perfluorinated compounds, plasticizers, and microplastics. For some pollutants, only few environmental or health risks are known. Recently, many studies have reported the presence of microplastics in tap and bottled water, raising questions and concerns about the impact that microplastics in drinking water have.

We now agree that we need to address these issues encountered both by developing and developed countries to achieve a sustainable water environment for mankind. Thus, this Special Issue plans to explore innovative water/wastewater treatment technologies that can address water pollution issues in a cost-effective way for both developing and developed countries.

This Special Issue collects original research and critical reviews about scientific and technical information. The primary areas of interest of this Special Issue include but are not limited to:

(1) Cost-effective water treatment technologies for rural areas that can be easily implemented in developing countries, such as wetland technologies, onsite treatment technologies, and so on;

(2) Water/wastewater treatment technologies for urban areas that can address contaminants of emerging concern, such as membrane technologies and advanced oxidation processes;

(3) Sustainable water and wastewater policies;

(4) Determination and quantification of contaminants of emerging concern in aquatic environments.

Prof. Dr. Yeojoon Yoon
Dr. Ingyu Lee
Guest Editors

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• water purification
• wastewater treatment
• water reuse
• contaminants of emerging concern
• sustainability