Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation

World Environment Day 2022

World Environment Day is the most renowned day for environmental action.

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Biodiversity and ecosystems; Chemicals and waste; Health and population; Sustainable cities and human settlements; Water and sanitation, Global

Microbial Consortium and Biotransformation for Pollution Decontamination - Chapter 1: Threats and consequences of untreated wastewater on freshwater environments

Elsevier,

Microbial Consortium and Biotransformation for Pollution Decontamination, Volume 1, 1 January 2022

This chapter aligns with Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation and Goal 3: Good health and well-being by arguing that SW resources, aquatic ecosystems, and unsuccessfully treated wastewater on water courses must be effectively treated to prevent hostile health risks that have long-term as well as short-term effects on human health.

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Health and wellbeing; Water and sanitation; Decontamination, Global

Microbial Consortium and Biotransformation for Pollution Decontamination - Chapter 3: Effect of wastewater from industries on freshwater ecosystem: Threats and remedies

Elsevier,

Microbial Consortium and Biotransformation for Pollution Decontamination, Volume 1, 1 January 2022

This chapter aligns with Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation, Goal 3: Good health and well-being, and Goal 14: Life below water by summarizing different types of wastewater, its effects on freshwater ecosystem, and remedies to reduce the effect of these effluents on freshwater ecosystem and indirectly on humans.

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Health and wellbeing; Water and sanitation; Decontamination, Global

From monitoring to treatment, how to improve water quality: The pharmaceuticals case

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering Journal Advances, Volume 10, 15 May 2022

Water pollution is the most serious problem threatening global water resources.

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Water and sanitation, Global

Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, Second Edition - Societal Implications of Kenya's Inland and Marine Waters

Elsevier,

Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, Second Edition, Volume 4, 2022, Pages 47-57

This chapter advances SDG goals 6 and 11 by focussing on Kenya's inland, coastal and marine resources, and their associated stressors and threats to ecological integrity. It provides key recommendations to promote societal benefits and enhance sustainable management of these aquatic resources.

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Food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture; Biodiversity and ecosystems, Africa

Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, Second Edition - Moving Towards Water Sensitive Cities: A Planning Framework, Underlying Principles, and Technologies—Case Study Kunshan Sponge City

Elsevier,

Junyu Zhang, Dafang Fu, Chris Zevenbergen, Moving Towards Water Sensitive Cities: A Planning Framework, Underlying Principles, and Technologies—Case Study Kunshan Sponge City, Encyclopedia of Inland Waters (Second Edition), Elsevier, 2022, Pages 399-416, ISBN 9780128220412

This chapter advances SDG 6, 11 and 12 by highlighting the typical water-related features of an urbanizing polder, and its transformation into a water sensitive or “Sponge City”. Recent experiences in Kunshan city, China, are used as an example.

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Reports

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Sustainable cities and human settlements; Water and sanitation, Asia

Encyclopedia of Inalnd Waters, Second Edition -

Elsevier,

Julia Derx, Rita Linke, Domenico Savio, Monica Emelko, Philip Schmidt, Jack Schijven, Liping Pang, Regina Sommer, Margaret Stevenson, Harold van den Berg, Saskia Rutjes, Andreas H. Farnleitner, Alfred Paul Blaschke, From Groundwater to Drinking Water – Current Approaches for Microbial Monitoring and Risk Assessment in Porous Aquifers, Encyclopedia of Inland Waters (Second Edition), Elsevier, 2022, Pages 580-594, ISBN 9780128220412

This chapter supports SDG 6 by summarizing the current approaches for evaluating pathogen fate and transport in the environment, their removal during subsurface transport in porous aquifers and the needed infection protection to achieve safe drinking water.

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Health and population; Sustainable consumption and production, Global

Encyclopedia of Inland Waters (Second Edition) - Societal Implications of Kenya's Inland and Marine Waters

Elsevier,

Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, Second Edition, 2022, pp 450-463

This chapter aligns with Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities and 6: Clean Water and Sanitation by reviewing Kenya's inland, coastal and marine resources, their associated stressors and key recommendations to promote societal benefits and enhance sustainable management of these aquatic resources.