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ClearWater reuse: a pillar of the circular water economy
This review argues that water reuse is a foundational pillar of the circular water economy, shifting the paradigm from dissipative pollutant removal toward resource recovery and closed-loop water management. The authors examine how conventional wastewater treatment approaches must be reimagined to enable sustainable water circularity.
The role of grey water footprint in urban wastewater management: from pollution to reuse
This study evaluated grey water footprint as a qualitative indicator of wastewater impact using eight years of real data from a municipal treatment plant and its receiving water body, demonstrating its utility for tracking wastewater management effectiveness over time.
Wastewater and sludge valorisation: a novel approach for treatment and resource recovery to achieve circular economy concept
This review highlights novel approaches for wastewater and sludge valorisation within a circular economy framework, focusing on recovering value-added products including biopolymers, nutrients, and energy to achieve sustainable development goals and combat water scarcity.
Circular Economy in Wastewater Treatment Plant—Water, Energy and Raw Materials Recovery
This review proposes a conceptual framework for future wastewater treatment plants operating as resource recovery facilities within a circular economy, focusing on technologies for recovering water, energy, and raw materials including nutrients and biopolymers.
Urbanization and the Emerging Water Crisis: Identifying Water Scarcity and Environmental Risk with Multiple Applications in Urban Agglomerations in Western China
Researchers developed a comprehensive index system to evaluate water scarcity and environmental risk across three major urban regions in Western China. They found that rapid urbanization has significantly worsened water resource shortages and ecological vulnerability in these areas. The study provides a framework for understanding how urban growth intensifies water stress and suggests approaches for sustainable water resource management.
Emerging Pollutants in Wastewater: A Challenge for Water Reuse
This review examines emerging pollutants in wastewater as a central challenge for water reuse strategies, covering contaminants present at both domestic and industrial scales. It evaluates the sustainability benefits and treatment hurdles associated with recycling wastewater to address global water scarcity.
Towards Adaptive Water Quality Indexing: Integrating Fuzzy Logic for Improved Contaminant Detection and Treatment Planning
This study proposed integrating fuzzy logic into water quality index calculations to better handle the uncertainty and compounding effects of emerging contaminants such as pharmaceuticals, microplastics, and personal care products that conventional water quality indices were not designed to assess.
Integrated Approaches to Water Quality Assessment and Treatment: A Comprehensive Review
This comprehensive review integrates physical, chemical, and biological water quality parameters, examines major pollution sources including emerging contaminants like microplastics, and surveys advances in real-time IoT-enabled monitoring and integrated treatment approaches.
Measuring Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Water Resource Recovery Facilities Workshop Report
Researchers convened a workshop bringing together water utilities, national laboratories, and government agencies to identify challenges and opportunities in measuring life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from water resource recovery facilities.
A Methodology for Industrial Water Footprint Assessment Using Energy-Water-Carbon Nexus
Researchers developed a methodology using the energy-water-carbon nexus to assess industrial water footprints, applying it to Irish milk and beer production facilities to quantify the carbon emissions associated with industrial water consumption and treatment.
AI Applied to the Circular Economy: An Approach in the Wastewater Sector
This review explored how artificial intelligence can be applied to circular economy objectives in the wastewater sector, examining AI-driven approaches for optimizing water treatment, resource recovery, and system efficiency. The paper identified opportunities and challenges for integrating machine learning into water utility operations within an ecological transition framework.
Novel Quantitative Evaluation of Biotreatment Suitability of Wastewater
This study developed a new framework for evaluating how suitable wastewater is for biological treatment, going beyond standard water quality indicators. Better assessment tools could improve wastewater treatment efficiency and reduce pollutant discharges, including microplastics.
Removal of microplastics from wastewater: available techniques and way forward
This review surveys available techniques for removing microplastics from wastewater within a circular economy framework, discussing innovative treatment technologies, integrated risk-based approaches, and regulatory and economic guidelines needed to advance water resource recovery facilities beyond conventional pollutant removal.
Insights into Global Water Reuse Opportunities
This review examines global opportunities and challenges for reusing treated wastewater, which is becoming increasingly important as water scarcity worsens worldwide. A key concern discussed is that recycled water may contain emerging contaminants including microplastics that current treatment methods do not fully remove. The findings highlight the need for advanced treatment technologies to ensure that water reuse does not become a pathway for microplastic exposure in communities.
Benefits and limitations of recycled water systems in the building sector: a review
Researchers reviewed the benefits and challenges of recycling greywater (lightly used household water) in buildings, finding it can improve concrete workability by 12–14% and reduce strain on freshwater supplies. While promising for sustainability, widespread adoption is held back by dual-pipe infrastructure costs, water quality concerns, and gaps in regulation.
More Than a Numbers Game: Accounting for Circular Economy Performance in Collaborative initiatives in Cities
This PhD thesis examines how circular economy performance is managed and accounted for within cross-sector collaborative initiatives in cities, exploring how diverse stakeholders with conflicting interests navigate shared goals for sustainability and resource decoupling.
Puebla City Water Supply from the Perspective of Urban Water Metabolism
This paper is not about microplastics — it analyzes water supply management and the human right to water in Puebla, Mexico, using urban water metabolism accounting.
Multiple approach for assessing lagoon environmental status based on water bodies quality indices and microplastics accumulation
Researchers assessed lagoon environmental status using water quality indices and microplastic accumulation measurements, finding that combining these multiple approaches provides a more comprehensive evaluation of lagoon ecosystem health than single metrics alone.
A comprehensive analysis of evolution and underlying connections of water research themes in the 21st century
Researchers conducted a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of articles published in Water Research over the first 21.5 years of the 21st century to map evolving water research themes and their interconnections. The analysis identified stable core topics such as wastewater treatment and adsorption alongside emerging trends, providing a systematic overview of advances in water science and policy.
Unlocking the Potential of Reclaimed Water: Analysis of the Challenges and Market Size as a Strategic Solution for Water Scarcity in Europe
This study examines the market potential and challenges for reclaimed water as a solution to water scarcity in Europe, assessing regulatory frameworks, treatment technology gaps, and reuse applications. It identifies microplastics and pharmaceuticals as key contaminants of concern in reclaimed water and discusses standardisation needs.
Beyond the Surface: A Critical Analysis of Corporate Water Accounting Literature for Sustainable Development
This systematic review analysed 47 articles on corporate water accounting using bibliometric and content analysis, finding the field remains in early stages with geographically concentrated research and proposing an integrative framework to address thematic drivers and barriers to sustainable water management.
Transforming Pollution into Purity: Ensuring Water Quality for Human Health and Environmental Sustainability
This review examines global threats to water quality from contaminants including microplastics, heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, and agrochemicals, and their consequences for human health and ecosystems. The authors advocate for a comprehensive strategy combining source protection, advanced treatment technologies like constructed wetlands and advanced oxidation, and robust governance to ensure safe water access.
Shared Automatic Drinking Water Treatment and Dispensing Systems and Methods of Their Optimization
This paper is not about microplastics — it evaluates water quality and operational performance of shared automatic water vending machines, proposing optimization strategies.
Wastewater Valorization: Practice around the World at Pilot- and Full-Scale
This review summarizes pilot- and full-scale wastewater valorization practices globally, focusing on how water resource recovery facilities recover nutrients, energy, and bio-based materials from sewage and sludge to contribute to a circular economy. The authors identify effective technological strategies that are being implemented or scaled up worldwide.