Virtual Special Issue

Advanced Treatment Technologies for Drinking Water

In the past century, conventional drinking water treatment technologies such as coagulation, sedimentation, and chlorine disinfection have played an important role in drinking water treatment. However, global drivers associated with population growth, demographic shifts, and climate change place increasing stresses on fresh and sustainable water supplies.

The current challenges also include the combined pollution of water resources, the existence of novel pollutants in the water, and obsolescence of the traditional water treatment facilities. Thus, innovative technologies are urgently needed for drinking water treatment to ensure public health and ecological safety. And it has become the consensus of the water industry to improve the technology system for drinking water supply and apply the advanced water treatment process.

Under this background, there is a need to understand the development trends of global drinking water advanced treatment using science and technology and to promote technological innovation based on actual needs of water quality safety. At present, the integration of advanced drinking water treatment technology with some emerging technologies such as internet of things, big data, AI, new materials, and biotechnology are increasingly common, and water supply technologies are developing towards intelligence and environmental friendliness. 

Editorial: Advanced Treatment Technologies for Drinking Water

Wenjun Sun; Wenhai Chu

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (1 December 2021) 70 (8): iii-iv.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2021.102

Research progress on the injury mechanism and detection method of disinfectant-injured Escherichia coli in the drinking water system

Cui-min Feng; Na Zhu; Ji-yue Jin; Ying Li; Zhen Xu; Tong Wei; Rui Yu

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (1 December 2021) 70 (8): 1135–1144.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2021.017

Parameter optimization and performance analysis of nanofiltration membrane in treatment of compound-contaminated high-hardness water

Guifang Li; Yuting Gao; Wuchang Song; Fei Xu; Yonglei Wang; Shaohua Sun; Ruibao Jia

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (1 December 2021) 70 (8): 1145–1158.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2021.225

Deacidification through calcium carbonate dosing in combination with ultrafiltration

Yair G. Morales; Pia Lipp

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (1 December 2021) 70 (8): 1111–1120.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2021.030

Degradation of 2,6-dichloro-1,4-benzoquinone by advanced oxidation with UV, H2O2, and O3: parameter optimization and model building

Zhangbin Pan; Xiaokang Zhu; Guifang Li; Yongqiang Wang; Mei Li; Shaohua Sun; Ruibao Jia; Li'an Hou

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (1 December 2021) 70 (8): 1159–1169.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2021.026

Comparative study on heterogeneous and homogeneous catalytic ozonation efficiency in micropollutants' removal

S. Psaltou; E. Kaprara; M. Mitrakas; A. Zouboulis

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (1 December 2021) 70 (8): 1121–1134.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2021.067

Microbial characterizations of water using tea polyphenols as a disinfectant for effluent treatment after the ultrafiltration process

Tong Wei; Shan Qing; Cuimin Feng; Renda Yao; Na Zhu; Zhen Xu; Yongkang Wang

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (1 December 2021) 70 (8): 1170–1180.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2021.005

Impact of UV irradiation on disinfection by-product formation and speciation from post-chlorination of dissolved organic matter

Ziming Zhao; Madhumita B. Ray; Ted Mao; Wenjun Sun

AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (1 December 2021) 70 (8): 1181–1191.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2021.012