Themed collection Protecting Our Water Collection

Urban stormwater is a source of persistent, mobile and toxic substances, however the risk for water resources is unknown.

Separation and recovery strategies of high-viscosity crude oil through regulating surface wettability, designing pore structures and reducing crude oil viscosity.

Sorbent-assisted AWH and moisture-enabled energy generation are reviewed in parallel to reveal the correlation between these two technologies.

Although science has made great strides in recent years, access to fresh water remains a major challenge for humanity due to water shortage for two-thirds of the world's population.

This review summarizes the recent progress in interfacial solar vapor generation, which was first proposed in 2014. The technique shows great potential for decentralized desalination applications using ubiquitous and renewable solar energy.

Recently, bubble-propelled micro/nanomotors have been considered as the cutting-edge micro/nano-sensing tools that use their unique features for fast detection of various hazardous environmental pollutants and biosensing.

Stimuli-responsive polymers are a new category of smart materials used in water treatment via a stimuli-induced purification process and subsequent regeneration processes.

The shortage of freshwater resources caused by heavy metal pollution is an acute global issue, which has a great impact on environmental protection and human health.

This review presents an overview of various analytical techniques for arsenic determination in drinking water, and will enhance awareness and appreciation of their role in informing and protecting our environment and water resources, globally.

The increasing need for food and agricultural resources necessitates using pesticides to protect plants, but this approach also poses pesticide poisoning and environmental hazards.

Green roof contributes to urban stormwater management.

This review highlights the pressing need for sustainable water management strategies within the water-energy-infrastructure-human nexus, and accentuates the critical roles of infrastructure and human engagement for sustainable water management.

The water–energy–food nexus aims to achieve sustainable development by meeting present needs while safeguarding the capacity of future generations.

Traditional stormwater infrastructure facilitates the transport of antibiotic resistance genes while green stormwater infrastructure may capture the genes and promote horizontal gene transfer.

Sampling, storage, preservation, pre-treatment, and extraction are essential components of microplastic detection. Hence, to obtain an accurate representation of microplastics, it is crucial to carefully choose the most suitable pre-analysis methods.

This article provides an inclusive understanding of the factors responsible for the water quality deterioration of Ganga, the activities by people towards harming the water quality and available test kits for determining the toxic pollutants.

Carbon nanomaterial-based membranes exhibit fascinating permselectivity for water and wastewater treatment, and their performance could be further improved under electrochemical assistance, benefiting from their good electrical conductivity.

Fluoride contamination has created a drinking water crisis globally.

We report the development of a high throughput differential PFAS sensing platform using dynamic combinatorial libraries as sensors, with sensing at the lowest concentrations and in the most complex mixtures reported to date via fluorescence methods.

Summary of the water sampling locations, water quality parameters monitored, and intervention methods performed.

Alaska has the lowest rate of access to in-home water services in the United States.

Quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs) are a class of compounds that were widely used as disinfectants during the COVID-19 pandemic and continue to be used as disinfecting agents.

A core–shell silver-encapsulated polypyrrole, Ag@PPy, was prepared via in situ synthesis for simultaneous efficient adsorption and immobilization of iodide and iodate.

Extracting uranium (U(VI)) from seawater can effectively solve the shortage of uranium resources on land.

This study in Melbourne, Australia, reveals higher levels of microplastic pollution in industrial areas compared to commercial or residential areas. Stormwater runoff is identified as the main pathway for transporting MPs from road dust to aquatic ecosystems.

Medicines and pesticides are being used excessively, misused, or abused in recent times, resulting in major environmental contamination and, more specifically, water pollution.

Environmental chronic risk generated by wet-weather discharges compared to final effluent was stochastically assessed, also from a climate-change perspective, stressing their growing contribution for many (micro-)pollutants.

Analysis of precipitation finds many emerging PFAS.

During investigations of aerobic methane oxidation, this study found that seafloor seeps emit low pH water alongside methane. This discovery was revealed through isotopic measurement and model experiments.

Surface and deep water samples of the Buriganga River were measured to assess the water quality, pollution level, elemental sources, and their potential ecological and human health risks.

This work evaluates generalizability of THM models and provides a framework to promote cohesive and collaborative model development efforts moving forward.

The use of plastic potable water pipes to replace corroded metallic plumbing and construct new potable water plumbing systems is rapidly increasing due to the low cost, noncorrosive characteristics, and easy installation of plastic water pipes.

To address the underutilization of infrared light in photocatalysis, a synergistic CO₂ photoreduction and seawater desalination system was developed, which exhibited a good bifunctional performance.

Effective Cr(VI) water remediation can be obtained by using industrial lignins and lignin-based materials from a circular economy perspective.

The RAVEN STREAM online tool aims to help sewage treatment plants (STPs) identify and manage industrial chemicals used upstream that, if spilled, could cause a toxic shock to the STP microorganisms utilized in the wastewater treatment process.

The novelty of the work: understanding turbidity and its relationship to UN SDGs.

Water treatment plants offer the opportunity to reduce the exposure of humans to nanoparticle contamination. An affinity-based filter made from natural materials and Moringa oleifera seed protein achieves high removals of various nanoparticles.

With the use of on-line flow cytometric fingerprinting, we confirmed that cell densities in a RO permeate were caused by bacterial regrowth in the piping, and that there was no problem with the integrity of the membrane and resulting water quality.

Nanobubbles are applied in diverse water-treatment technologies.

Mixtures of contaminants are observed in public-supply drinking water. Frequent exceedances of human-health advisories indicate potential cumulative risk to vulnerable subpopulations and the continued need for broad chemical assessments in tapwater.

Oceans emit ice-nucleating particles (INPs) which freeze supercooled cloud droplets, modifying clouds. We added dead biomass of three phytoplankton to seawater. Each time, this stimulated INP production in the water and INP emissions in sea spray.

The extensive use of artificial sweeteners (ASs) has raised concerns regarding their presence, fate, and detrimental effects in water resources.

A simple equilibrium passive sampler, consisting of water in an inert container capped with a rate-limiting barrier, for the monitoring of PFAS in sediment pore water and surface water was developed and tested through a series of laboratory and field experiments.

Methylmercury formed in anoxic reservoirs associates with organic-rich particles and is exported downstream.

A thin-film cross-vertical double-layer electrode array is uniquely proposed, and this flexible sensor device can be combined with signal processing links and display terminals to form a complete usable maritime sensing system.

Microplastics (MPs) are emerging contaminants in aquatic ecosystems and have caused substantial concern worldwide.

A combination effect of a polyurethane coating and hygroscopic lithium chloride endows various hydrogels with more adaptability to harsh environments.

The formation and dynamic partitioning of As species in the water column of a large oligo-mesotrophic lake is driven by biological processes.

A leaf vein-biomimetic nanofibrous membrane was constructed by nonsolvent-induced phase inversion for high-performance surface filtration of water contaminants.

Water pollution caused by the frequent use of combined sewer overflows (CSOs) has been attracting increased media and political coverage in England as in other places in the world.