Wastewater treatment and water reuse

M Salgot, M Folch - Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health, 2018 - Elsevier
To implement tariffs and regulations on sanitation and wastewater treatment, as well as for
disposal or reuse of treated effluents, it is necessary to know the treatment technologies …

[HTML][HTML] Physical water scarcity metrics for monitoring progress towards SDG target 6.4: An evaluation of indicator 6.4. 2 “Level of water stress”

D Vanham, AY Hoekstra, Y Wada, F Bouraoui… - Science of the total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Target 6.4 of the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) deals with the
reduction of water scarcity. To monitor progress towards this target, two indicators are used …

Water savings potentials of irrigation systems: global simulation of processes and linkages

J Jägermeyr, D Gerten, J Heinke… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2015 - hess.copernicus.org
Global agricultural production is heavily sustained by irrigation, but irrigation system
efficiencies are often surprisingly low. However, our knowledge of irrigation efficiencies is …

A global, spatially-explicit assessment of irrigated croplands influenced by urban wastewater flows

AL Thebo, P Drechsel, EF Lambin… - Environmental …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
When urban areas expand without concomitant increases in wastewater treatment capacity,
vast quantities of wastewater are released to surface waters with little or no treatment …

Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges

M Zeitoun, B Lankford, T Krueger, T Forsyth… - Global Environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
This article reviews and contrasts two approaches that water security researchers employ to
advance understanding of the complexity of water-society policy challenges. A prevailing …

Challenges for circular economy under the EU 2020/741 wastewater reuse regulation

J Berbel, E Mesa‐Pérez, P Simón - Global Challenges, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wastewater reuse is seen as an opportunity to support a circular economy and optimize
water resources. However, the use of wastewater is limited by the need for the proper …

[HTML][HTML] A scale-based framework to understand the promises, pitfalls and paradoxes of irrigation efficiency to meet major water challenges

B Lankford, A Closas, J Dalton, EL Gunn, T Hess… - Global Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
An effective placement of irrigation efficiency in water management will contribute towards
meeting the pre-eminent global water challenges of our time such as addressing water …

China's strictest water policy: Reversing water use trends and alleviating water stress

L Zhang, Q Ma, Y Zhao, H Chen, Y Hu, H Ma - Journal of Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Growing water problems have promoted the Chinese government to implement the strictest
water resources management system (SWRMS), the first national policy that puts into …

[PDF][PDF] Increasing trends towards drinking water reclamation from treated wastewater

D Ghernaout - World Journal of Applied Chemistry, 2018 - academia.edu
All around the world, water supplies are coming under increasing pressure as population
growth, climate change, pollution, and changes in land use affect water quantity and quality …

Agriculture's historic twin-challenge toward sustainable water use and food supply for all

J Jägermeyr - Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2020 - frontiersin.org
A sustainable and just future, envisioned by the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, puts agricultural systems under a heavy strain. The century-old quandary to …