Estimating the cost of achieving basic water, sanitation, hygiene, and waste management services in public health-care facilities in the 46 UN designated least-developed countries: a modelling study

Elsevier,

The Lancet Global Health, Volume 10, June 2022

Background: An alarming number of public health-care facilities in low-income and middle-income countries lack basic water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH), and waste management services.

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Health and wellbeing; Water and sanitation; Capacity-building, Global

Pollutec, the international trade show for environmental equipment, technologies and services

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Born in 1978, Pollutec is recognized today as the reference meeting place for environment professionals. The event develops multiple SDGs, including SDGs 6 (clean water and sanitation), 7 (affordable and clean energy), 12 (responsible consumption and production) and 13 (climate action).
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Climate change; Energy; Green economy; Water and sanitation

World Environment Day 2022

Elsevier

World Environment Day is the most renowned day for environmental action.

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Biodiversity and ecosystems; Chemicals and waste; Climate change; Desertification, land degradation and drought; Health and population; Sustainable cities and human settlements; Water and sanitation, Global

From monitoring to treatment, how to improve water quality: The pharmaceuticals case

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering Journal Advances, Volume 10, 15 May 2022
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Water pollution is the most serious problem threatening global water resources.
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Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, Second Edition - Moving Towards Water Sensitive Cities: A Planning Framework, Underlying Principles, and Technologies—Case Study Kunshan Sponge City

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Junyu Zhang, Dafang Fu, Chris Zevenbergen, Moving Towards Water Sensitive Cities: A Planning Framework, Underlying Principles, and Technologies—Case Study Kunshan Sponge City, Encyclopedia of Inland Waters (Second Edition), Elsevier, 2022, Pages 399-416, ISBN 9780128220412
This chapter advances SDG 6, 11 and 12 by highlighting the typical water-related features of an urbanizing polder, and its transformation into a water sensitive or “Sponge City”. Recent experiences in Kunshan city, China, are used as an example.
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Sustainable cities and human settlements; Water and sanitation, Asia

Encyclopedia of Inalnd Waters, Second Edition -

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Julia Derx, Rita Linke, Domenico Savio, Monica Emelko, Philip Schmidt, Jack Schijven, Liping Pang, Regina Sommer, Margaret Stevenson, Harold van den Berg, Saskia Rutjes, Andreas H. Farnleitner, Alfred Paul Blaschke, From Groundwater to Drinking Water – Current Approaches for Microbial Monitoring and Risk Assessment in Porous Aquifers, Encyclopedia of Inland Waters (Second Edition), Elsevier, 2022, Pages 580-594, ISBN 9780128220412
This chapter supports SDG 6 by summarizing the current approaches for evaluating pathogen fate and transport in the environment, their removal during subsurface transport in porous aquifers and the needed infection protection to achieve safe drinking water.
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Health and population; Sustainable consumption and production, Global

The top 100 global water questions: Results of a scoping exercise

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One Earth, Volume 5, 20 May 2022
This article presents the 100 most pressing questions regarding water availability and governance.
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Information for integrated Decision-Making & Participation, Global

Floating pollutant image target extraction algorithm based on immune extremum region

Elsevier, Digital Signal Processing: A Review Journal, Volume 123, 30 April 2022
With the continuous development of human society, people's over-exploitation of nature leads to frequent environmental problems.
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Technology; Water and sanitation, Global

Sociodemographic inequalities in uranium and other metals in community water systems across the USA, 2006–11: a cross-sectional study

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The Lancet Planetary Health, Volume 6, April 2022, Pages e320-e330
This Article supports SDG 6, focusing on metal concentrations in drinking water systems in the USA and sociodemographic inequalities in these concnetrations, independent of location or region.
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Health and population, North America

Field demonstration of coupling ion-exchange resin with electrochemical oxidation for enhanced treatment of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in groundwater

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering Journal Advances, Volume 9, 15 March 2022
Schematic of the pilot-scale IXR-EO treatment train and sampling locations.
This pilot-scale field demonstration evaluated the remediation of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from groundwater contaminated with aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) from a coupled regenera
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Water and sanitation, Global

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