Every year, World Water Day raises awareness and inspires action to tackle the water and sanitation crisis. To mark World Water Day 2024, Elsevier has curated a free special collection of journal articles and book chapters. This year’s theme for World Water Day is Water for Peace. Discover research relating to clean water and sanitation from across a broad range of disciplines including the effects of racism, social exclusion, and discrimination on achieving universal safe water and sanitation in high-income countries and challenges faced by developing economics to mitigate the impacts o
Water is essential for life and producing food, energy, minerals, and industrial goods. As planetary populations grow and a changing climate triggers floods, droughts, and other environmental extremes, access to clean water sources becomes increasingly competitive. Inadequate infrastructures, poor resource allocation, and outdated ecological restoration principles compound an already prescient problem.
