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Aims & Scope

Journal of Water and Health is a peer-reviewed Open Access journal devoted to the dissemination of information on the health implications and control of waterborne microorganisms and chemical substances in the broadest sense for developing and developed countries worldwide. This includes microbial toxins, chemical quality and the aesthetic qualities of water.

Manuscripts that focus solely on modelling, hydrology, engineering processes, technology, asset management, or surveys without a clear and direct link to human health impacts will not be considered. Additionally, studies that do not address the implications of microbial toxins, chemical and/or microbial quality, or aesthetic qualities of water on health will be deemed outside the scope of the journal.

Contributions will be published on the health-related aspects of the following areas:

Epidemiology

Epidemiology of waterborne diseases

Wastewater-based epidemiology

Water and wastewater in One Health approaches

 

Risk assessment

Microbial risk assessment

Chemical risk assessment

Radiological risk assessment

 

Detection and ecology of pathogens in the environment

Fate and transport of pathogens/indictors/genetic markers

Predator-prey interactions

Pathogen-biofilm interactions

Horizontal gene transfer

Single celled microbiology

 

Water and wastewater treatment

Performance of water and wastewater treatment and health implications

Assessment of log-removals by treatment

Growth of pathogens in treatment systems

Changes in antimicrobial resistance, virulence markers

On-site or non-sewered systems

 

Disinfection

Chemical disinfection performance measurement

Physical disinfection performance measurement

 

Disinfection by-products

Health effects of DBPs

Measurement of DBPs

DBPs generated downstream of treatment

Removal of DBPs in water systems

 

Indicators of water and waste quality

Chemical indicators

Microbial indicators

Microbial source tracking markers

Verification of indicators

 

Regulatory issues and standard development

Emerging regulatory issues

Method Validation

Evaluation of a standard method

 

Water quality surveys and assessments

Antimicrobial resistance

Chemicals or contaminants of emerging concern

Microplastics related to health

Water virology

 

Monitoring

Novel approaches or interpretations in monitoring human exposure

Culture and molecular (omic) methods to address health-related targets

Innovation in monitoring and surveillance technology

Recreational water quality

Surface water monitoring

Groundwater monitoring

Wastewater-based surveillance

 

Microbial toxins (including cyanobacteria)

Cyanotoxins exposure assessment

Endotoxins exposure assessment

Microbial exposures resulting in hypersensitivities

Mycotoxins

 

Chemical and physical quality of water as it affects health

Chemical exposure assessment

Radiological exposure assessment

 

Endocrine disruptors

Exposure assessment of EDCs

 

Taste, odour & colour

Aesthetic aspects of water that may impact human health

 

Impacts of water quality on food safety

Food production

Food processing

 

Impact of climate change on water quality and health

Disruption of water services

Floods or droughts

Severe fire impacts

Shifts in waterborne disease

 

Water-based diseases

Saprozoic pathogens

Water-wash pathogens

 

Water-based insect vectors of disease

Vector disease ecology

 

Water policy and health

Evidence for health interventions

Ethics in Water and Health

 

Health effectiveness of water/sanitation management (WaSH)

Water Safety Plans

Informal settlements

Sanitation Safety Plans

Sanitation

 

Journal of Water and Health is published monthly.

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