Water, the Environment, and the Sustainable Development Goals

Water, the Environment and the Sustainable Development Goals details the availability of water resources on Earth in the context of sustainable resource management, how these water resources are utilized and the latest sustainable techniques in water resource management. Along with the latest techniques, each chapter discusses future challenges and opportunities in sustainability and provides detailed case studies.  Sections cover water quality, water pollution, water borne diseases, water purification, transboundary waters, water and energy, water and the green economy, water cooperation, water scarcity, and the relationship between water environments and sustainable development goals.

Dedication About the Editors Acknowledgments Water and its effect on SDGs 1. Scientometrics and overview of Water, Environment, and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2. Water Pollution, Sources and Health implications of the environmental contaminants on the Aquatic Ecosystem and Human: Approach towards Sustainable Development Goals 3. Water and access to sanitation and hygiene 4. Water conservation for environmental sustainability 5. Water recycling and reuse 6. Sustainable Water Management in Food and Agriculture Industries: Preventive Practices, Sensory Aspects, Emerging Concerns, and Non-thermal Strategies 7. Water Resource Management to Meet SDG13 on Climate Change 8. Effect of COVID-19 on water quality and emerging point-of-care detection technologies of water systems 9. Cost Analysis in terms of Water and Waste Water Treatment Water Treatment Processes 10. Water and wastewater safety plan in sub-Saharan Africa 11. Heterogeneous Catalytic Ozonation for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals 12. Electrochemical treatment of wastewater 13. Desalination of Seawater and Related Technologies 14. Nanotechnology-based Approaches for Remediation of Organic and Inorganic Pollutants from Aqueous Medium 15. Phenothiazine dyes removal on activated carbon developed from hydrothermally treated phyllanthus emblica fruit stones from water 16. Phycoremediation and water reuse in bioenergy production from algae and cyanobacteria 17. Biochar from microalgae: A biotechnology approach for water treatment systems 18. Microencapsulated Phase change materials for solar desalination system: An innovative technique to producing and storing clean, sustainable water

Prof. Mohammad Hadi Dehghani is a full professor at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. His scientific research interest is environmental science. He also has the distinction of being listed in the top 2% of the world’s most influential environmental sciences for the years 2021–23.

Dr. Rama Rao Karri is a professor (senior assistant) in the Faculty of Engineering at Universiti Teknologi Brunei. He has over 18 years of experience in academia, industry, and research. He has published 200+ research articles in reputed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings.

Dr. Inderjeet Tyagi is working as a Scientist at ZSI, Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change, Kolkata, India. To his expertise, Dr. Tyagi is working in the field of Wastewater treatment, Water Quality, Environmental Metagenomics, and Environmental Management for the past several years. To his credit, Dr. Tyagi had published 120+ SCI papers with Citation~8600 and an h-index of 51 with a cumulative impact factor >550. More to this, he is leading Five (5) national and international projects related to wastewater and water quality assessment in heavily polluted areas in India. Further, he is also on the reviewer panel of more than 40 international journals belonging to well-known publishers like Elsevier, Nature, Springer Nature, Taylor Francis, ACS, etc. Recently, he was awarded the “India Prime Education Quality Award 2021” for his outstanding contribution to the field of wastewater treatment and Environmental Management. He is a lifetime member of the Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) and a Member of the International Society of Wetland Scientists (International Chapter). He is the Editor of One Elsevier edited book entitled “Sustainable Materials for Sensing and Remediation of Noxious Pollutants”

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