Themed collection Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology Cover Art

Integration of resource recovery and circular economy concepts in higher education will stimulate responsible innovation in the water sector for an ecologically-balanced society.

Accumulation of solutes in the feed solutions of forward osmosis due to reverse solute flux should be reduced.

This Review explores the parameters to be engineered to design in situ electrochemical sensor platforms capable of meeting new EU regulation.

This review focuses on the in vivo bioassays of disinfected wastewater effluents with respect to aquatic organisms in order to provide an insight into further studies on the ecotoxicological effects.

Highly efficient hybrid amyloid membrane to remove clinical and nuclear radioactive wastewater.

Introducing coagulation–ultrafiltration removed bacteria from the drinking water but did not impact nitrification, localizing this process to the biofilm community.

Soil aquifer treatment significantly decreased the SA concentration in recharged synthetic water and aerobic biodegradation played a great role.

Anti-fouling and durability are two important parameters that are closely associated with the development and deployment of membrane distillation (MD).

BCN adsorbents exhibit superior adsorption performance for antibiotics and excellent reusability by simple high temperature calcination.

Stable and immobilized amine sorbents can simultaneously remove/recover cationic and oxyanionic toxic metals plus valuable rare earth elements from industrial and mining effluents prior to discharging into environmental water systems.

Pre-oxidation has been extensively studied as a pre-treatment for enhancement of algae-laden water coagulation.

This work demonstrates surface-tailored graphene paper as a filter for selectively removing two different classes of dye.

P-Free copolymers display enhanced scale (Ca₃(PO₄)₂ and Fe₂O₃) inhibition, improved antibacterial performance, and reliable in situ fluorescence detection of concentration.

A parameterized costing model was used to investigate the impacts of ion selectivity on water treatment price for selective ion removal with capacitive deionization (CDI) systems.

To tackle one of the Global Challenges of providing clean water, an ‘all in one’ photo reactor pod is designed carrying a supported benign photo-catalyst (TiO₂) and an UV-LED light source which is utilised continuously to remove cyanotoxins in water.

Sulfhydryl compounds effectively promote Fenton degradation through the establishment of the –HS/–S–S cycle with hydroxyl radicals.

MNBs may promote senescence of macrophytes with low total antioxidant capacity in urban landscape water and thereby affect ecological restoration.

Electrospun activated carbon fibers with high conductivity and favorable pore structures were prepared for enhanced electrosorption of ions.

In this work, a laminated CuAl-mixed metal oxide (CuAl-LDO) has been prepared and proposed as an electrode to interact with chloride ions for pseudo-capacitive deionization (P-CDI).

Sodium ions in an NH₄V₄O₁₀/rGO CDI cell can be reversibly inserted into NH₄V₄O₁₀.

Despite large differences in removal efficiencies, all treatment processes investigated were sufficient in preventing short-term behavioral effects in zebrafish larvae.