The sustainability of water resources depends on the dynamic interactions among the environmental, technological, and social characteristics of the water system and local population.

An international review of stormwater regulation and practices, especially for low-exposure, landscape irrigation schemes in urban environments, was undertaken with a view to identifying what could

Urban water management via Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) has been successfully applied in cities worldwide.

Disasters impacts on urban environment are the result of interactions among natural and human systems, which are intimately linked each other.

Urban source separation infrastructure systems have a promising potential for a more sustainable management of household food waste and wastewaters.

This book chapter addresses goals 6 and 12 by providing an overview of water resources in Europe and the associated anthropogenic and natural pressures. It further introduces the main instrument of the European Union (the Water Framework Directive) initiated as a response to the expected water crisis.

To advance goal 6 (clean water and sanitation), this chapter explores different desalination processes to make seawater drinkable, which is an obvious solution to any water shortages. Given the high-polluting energy required in the desalination process, solar-desalination technologies is considered.

Professor Paul T. Anastas holds the Teresa and H.

Access to water in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) continues to be a challenge to the extent that there are more people without access to water in 2015 than in 1990.

The detection of pharmaceuticals and endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs), known as emerging contaminants (ECs), in the environment has attracted growing concern due to their toxicity and potentia