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ClearWater‐Related Traditional and Indigenous Practices
This chapter examines traditional and indigenous water harvesting methods from across India -- including Ladakhi ice stupas, kunds, johads, bamboo drip systems, and araghatta irrigation -- analyzing their historical context, scientific basis, and potential for integration with modern approaches to achieve sustainable water management.
Sustainable Water Infrastructure: Visions and Options for Sub-Saharan Africa
This review assesses the challenges facing water infrastructure sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa, including aging systems, limited resources, and environmental pressures. Researchers evaluated global interventions and assessed their relevance to the African context using a framework that considers societal, technological, economic, environmental, and political dimensions. The study recommends an expanded analytical approach to develop more resilient and sustainable water systems for the region.
Technological Solutions for Water Sustainability: Challenges and Prospects
This book provides an overview of sustainable water management technologies for the Global South, with a focus on India. It covers new materials for water purification including nanocomposites for removing contaminants, low-cost sensor technologies for monitoring water quality, and strategies for urban water infrastructure management. The study suggests that integrated approaches combining advanced materials, new treatment technologies, and improved infrastructure planning are needed to address water sustainability challenges.
Maximizing Benefits to Nature and Society in Techno-Ecological Innovation for Water
This review advocates for nature-based solutions in water management, arguing that integrating ecological approaches alongside conventional engineering can maximize benefits for both biodiversity and human water security.
A Critical Review of Water Reuse: Lessons from Prehistoric Greece for Present and Future Challenges
This review traces the history of water reuse practices from ancient Greece to modern times, highlighting how early civilizations already understood the value of treating and repurposing wastewater. Researchers compare historical approaches with current advanced technologies including membrane filtration and direct potable reuse systems. The study argues that lessons from antiquity can inform contemporary water management strategies, particularly as growing populations and climate change put increasing pressure on freshwater resources.
Microplastic pollution in African countries’ water systems: a review on findings, applied methods, characteristics, impacts, and managements
This review synthesizes findings on microplastic pollution in water systems across African countries, highlighting methodological approaches, particle characteristics, sources, and impacts, while noting the limited but growing body of African microplastic research.
The Importance of Nonconventional Water Resources under Water Scarcity
This review explores the importance of nonconventional water resources, such as treated wastewater, desalinated water, and harvested rainwater, in addressing growing global water scarcity. Researchers found that these alternative sources are becoming increasingly vital as climate change and population growth strain traditional supplies. The study highlights how expanding the use of nonconventional water can help build a more sustainable water future.
A Review on Pollutants Found in Drinking Water in Sub-Sahara African Rural Communities: Detection and Potential Low-cost Remediation Methods
This review examined drinking water pollutants in sub-Saharan African rural communities, identifying widespread contamination from microplastics, heavy metals, and pathogens, and evaluating low-cost remediation methods suitable for resource-limited settings.
Managing Urban Water Bodies for Sustainable Development in Rapidly Urbanizing West African Cities: Insights from Burkina Faso
This review examines challenges and strategies for managing urban water bodies in rapidly growing West African cities, with focus on Burkina Faso. The authors identify inadequate governance frameworks, climate variability, and uncontrolled urbanization as key threats to water body sustainability, and call for integrated urban water management that incorporates emerging contaminant threats including microplastics.
Comparative systematic review of low-cost adsorbents for fluoride and heavy metal removal in rural water supplies in South Africa (1 January 2000 – 30 June 2025)
This systematic review compared low-cost adsorbents derived from agricultural and natural materials for removing fluoride and heavy metals from drinking water in rural South Africa. While focused on traditional contaminants, the adsorption techniques reviewed are also applicable to emerging water treatment challenges including microplastic removal in resource-limited settings.
Groundwater resources: challenges and future opportunities
Researchers reviewed the major challenges and future opportunities in managing groundwater — a critical global water resource — emphasizing that sustainable use requires integrating new technologies, improved governance, and awareness of social, economic, and environmental factors unique to each region.
Water Quality Challenges and Technological Innovations for Sustainable Management
This review examines technological innovations for sustainable water quality management in the context of increasing contamination from chemical pollutants, pathogens, and emerging contaminants including microplastics. Researchers summarized advances in water quality assessment methods and treatment technologies that address these modern challenges. The study highlights how rapid urbanization and climate change are intensifying the need for more sophisticated water management approaches.
Riverbank filtration: a frontline treatment method for surface and groundwater—African perspective
This review assessed riverbank filtration (RBF) as a water treatment method for Africa, finding it highly effective at removing microbial pathogens, organic compounds, and emerging contaminants including pharmaceuticals and microplastics, and identifying it as a viable strategy to address Africa's water security challenges.
The Role of Legume Cover Crops in Enhancing Climate Resilience and Water Use Efficiency in South African Grassland Systems. A Review
This review examines the role of legume cover crops in improving climate adaptability and water use efficiency in South African grassland systems, synthesizing evidence on their benefits for addressing water shortages and climate fluctuations. The authors assess legume cover crops as a cost-effective, long-term sustainable solution for agricultural climate resilience in South Africa.
Addressing water resource management challenges in the context of climate change and human influence
This study identifies and documents the key challenges facing water resource management due to the combined pressures of climate change and human activity. Researchers found that droughts, floods, sea-level rise, and pollution are threatening both water quality and public health on a global scale. The study emphasizes that more sustainable approaches to water governance and infrastructure are urgently needed to address the growing gap between water supply and demand.
Review of emerging contaminants in water: USA and African perspectives
This review examines emerging water contaminants across the United States and Africa, including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and pesticides. It highlights significant gaps in regulation and monitoring, particularly in African countries where data is limited. The authors recommend a holistic approach combining research, better regulations, and international cooperation to protect water quality and human health globally.
Multipurpose Freshwater Coastal Reservoirs and Their Role in Mitigating Climate Change
This review examines the design and function of freshwater coastal reservoirs — constructed by oceanic dikes to impound surplus river water near coastlines — and their potential role in freshwater supply and climate change mitigation strategies in coastal regions.
Extending traditional water supplies in inland communities with nontraditional solutions to water scarcity
This review examines non-traditional water supply solutions—like stormwater harvesting, greywater reuse, and desalination—for inland communities facing water scarcity. Expanding water sources also requires managing contamination including microplastics, which have been found in alternative water supplies.
A Look at Issues Related to Water Common Among Indigenous Peoples of North America
This paper reviews water access challenges facing Indigenous communities across North America, highlighting how colonialism, climate change, and geographic remoteness compound water insecurity in these communities. Issues include flooding, drought, permafrost thaw, and coastal erosion that disrupt water systems and traditional relationships with water.
Microplastics and Climate Change in Africa
This review examines microplastic pollution and climate change interactions across African contexts, highlighting how plastic waste mismanagement compounds climate vulnerability in African ecosystems and discussing region-specific mitigation strategies.
Emergence of microplastics in African environmental drinking water sources: A review on sources, analysis and treatment strategies
This review examines microplastic contamination of drinking water sources across Africa, identifying entry pathways linked to uncontrolled plastic imports, poor waste management, and limited water treatment infrastructure. The authors highlight the need for more African-specific research on microplastic fate in water systems and call for improved treatment strategies appropriate for resource-limited settings.
Ciências e Tecnologia das Águas: inovações e avanços em pesquisa - Volume 2
This volume compiles research advances in water science and technology, addressing topics ranging from water resource conservation and sustainable management to innovative treatment approaches, framed within the context of global water scarcity and growing demand.
Science and Technology for Water Purification: Achievements and Strategies
This review covers the latest science and technology for purifying water, addressing the global challenges of water scarcity and pollution. It discusses emerging contaminants including microplastics and the treatment methods needed to remove them. The findings are relevant to human health because current water treatment systems may not fully remove microplastics and other new pollutants from drinking water.
Examining the Adaptation of Agriculture to Climate Change in Africa
This study examines agricultural adaptation strategies being deployed across Africa in response to climate change, focusing on how smallholder farmers and policymakers are responding to shifting precipitation patterns, temperature extremes, and degraded soil conditions.