AQUA - Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society

Special Issue on

Novel Water Treatment Options for
Sustainable Solutions to Clean Water Scarcity

Water availability is a pressing issue in current times. Increase in urban population, limiting natural resources and improper water management has increased the need for effective & efficient water treatment strategies. The global water crisis has many causes, requiring many different solutions which must span policy, technology, and behaviour change to make a real difference. Thus, innovation and technology have a vital role to play in scarcity and safety, water efficiency, utility operations, monitoring, treatment and data analytics.

Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat (State), India organised the International Conference on Advances in Water Treatment and Management 2022. The conference was a great success with over 200 papers submitted from around the globe. The ICAWTM22 aimed to present options for low-cost renewable energy, highly efficient water treatment solutions, innovation in water desalination and water treatment technologies.

This Special Issue publishes research and review articles on advanced and efficient water treatment technologies and options.

Guest Editors:

Dr. Anurag Mudgal - Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

Assoc. Prof. Saroj K. Sharma – IHE Delft, The Netherlands (Co-Guest Editor – Associate Editor AQUA)

Prof. Philip Davies - University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Dr. Nirajan Dhakal - IHE Delft, The Netherlands

Dr. Lidia Roca - Centre for Energy, Environment & Technology Research, Spain

Editorial: Novel water treatment options for sustainable solutions to clean water scarcity

Anurag Mudgal; Philip Davies; Nirajan Dhakal; Lidia Roca; Dominic Standing

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (1 March 2024) 73 (3): vii–ix.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2024.002

Heavy metals in crops irrigated with wastewater in various parts of India: A review

Bibhabasu Mohanty, Anirban Das

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (2023) 72 (6): 851–867.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2023.122

Remediation processes of hexavalent chromium from groundwater: A short review

Sukanya Acharyya; Anirban Das; T. P. Thaker

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (2023) 72 (5): 648–662.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2023.123

Design of hydrodynamic cavitation based advanced oxidation process for degradation of recalcitrant micropollutants originating from tertiary effluent streams: A case study with Norfloxacin

Birupakshya Mishra; Abhishek Thaker; Anupam Mukherjee; Aditi Mullick; Subhankar Roy; Siddhartha Moulik

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (2023) 72 (5): 633–647.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2023.120

Orange peel activated carbon produced from waste orange peels for adsorption of methyl red

Sneha Deshmukh; Niraj S. Topare; Sunita Raut-Jadhav; Prashant V. Thorat; Shantini A. Bokil; Anish Khan

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (2022) 71 (12): 1351–1363.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2022.119

Niobium Pentaoxide (Nb2O5) as an efficient photocatalyst for photocatalytic degradation of Rhodamine-B

Niraj S. Topare; Anish Khan; Satish V. Khedkar; Shantini A. Bokil

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (2022) 71 (12): 1344–1350.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2022.218

Design and modeling of vertical tube evaporator in a thermal driven multiple effect distillation system

Pravesh Chandra; Anurag Mudgal; Jatin Patel

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (2023) 72 (6): 841–850.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2023.116

Photocatalytic degradation of tetracycline and ciprofloxacin antibiotic residues in aqueous phase by biosynthesized nZVI using Sal (Shorea robusta) leaf extract

Aditya Kumar Jha; Sukalyan Chakraborty

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (2023) 72 (3): 230–245.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2023.113

Study on water and gas permeation characteristics with ZIF-8 mixed matrix membranes

Ajay Gawali; Sapna Gawali; Surendra Sasikumar Jampa; Manish Kumar Sinha; Jalaja Pandya; Satyam Shinde; Snigdha Khuntia

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (2023) 72 (7): 1097–1114.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2023.102

Role of cationic surfactants in palladium adsorption of commercial ion exchange resins using electroless plating solutions

Yennam Rajesh; Lakshmana Rao Jeeru; Ganesh Dabhade; Gaurav Daware

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (2023) 72 (5): 623–632.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2023.104

Mulching effect on water management in agro-ecological system: A Review

T. N. Shaikh; Janki R. Patel; B. H. Patel

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (2023) 72 (9): 1664–1680.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2023.101

Designing efficient floating bed options for treatment of eutrophic water

Sampurna Nandy; Divya Kalra; Atya Kapley

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (2022) 71 (12): 1332–1343.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2022.100

Hybrid membrane process for water treatment: A short review

Pratik Saha; Surendra Sasikumar Jampa; Manish Kumar Sinha; Snigdha Khuntia

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (2023) 72 (5): 608–622.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2023.097

Ultrafiltration study of polysulfone (PSF) membrane modified with branched polyethyleneimine (PEI)

Smit Vala; Sapna Ajay Gawali; Surendra Sasikumar Jampa; Manish Kumar Sinha; Snigdha Khuntia

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (2023) 72 (9): 1647–1663.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2023.098

Water quality assessment of open wells in Malappuram district, Kerala

Sajeesh Adangampurath Kolothumthodi; Ajmal Koya Pulikkal

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (2022) 71 (12): 1325–1331.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2022.095

Techno-economic analysis of hybrid electrodialysis-batch reverse osmosis process for brackish water desalination

Dipak Ankoliya; Anurag Mudgal; Manish Kumar Sinha; Vivek Patel; Jatin Patel

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (2023) 72 (5): 593–607.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2023.088

Adsorption of brilliant green dye by used-tea-powder: Equilibrium, kinetics and thermodynamics studies

Sarika Vithalkar; R. M. Jugade; D. Saravanan

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (2022) 71 (10): 1148–1158.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2022.076

Enhanced ammonium removal from aquatic system by a novel copolymer

Hazem F. Taha; Waseem Ahmed Gad; Ibrahim El-Hussein

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (2023) 72 (1): 49–61.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2022.075

Pore volume and surface diffusion model to characterize batch adsorption of Cu(II) over chemically modified Cucurbita moschata biosorbent: Simulation using gPROMS

Mohd Danish; Khursheed B. Ansari; Mohammad Danish; Sadaf Zaidi; Mohd Junaid Khalil; Rameez Ahmad Aftab

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (2022) 71 (12): 1311–1324.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2022.073

Regeneration of copper loaded pine bark biochar using simultaneous bio-sulfide precipitation of copper

Misbah Bashir; Chander Mohan; Ajit P. Annachhatre

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (2023) 72 (5): 577–592.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2023.067