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ClearEditorial: Microplastics in water and potential impacts on human health
This editorial introduces a special issue on microplastics in water and their potential impacts on human health, reviewing the state of knowledge and key unanswered questions in the field.
Special Issue on Promising Research and Strategies in Wastewater Treatment, Sludge Management, and Valorisation: Volume I
This is an editorial introduction to a special journal issue on wastewater treatment, sludge management, and resource valorization, noting the challenges posed by new contaminants from diverse sources in the context of rapid urbanization. The editorial has no specific research findings but contextualizes the growing importance of emerging contaminants including microplastics in water treatment.
Water Quality Assessment of River Basins: New Insights and Practical Solutions
This editorial introduces a collection of studies focused on assessing and improving water quality in river basins around the world. The authors highlight that human activities and environmental changes have severely compromised freshwater resources, posing risks to ecosystems and public health. The collection addresses emerging contaminants, including microplastics, and explores practical monitoring and remediation solutions.
Editorial: Emerging contaminants and aquatic ecosystem health
This editorial introduces a research collection on emerging contaminants and aquatic ecosystem health, highlighting the vulnerability of aquatic systems to pollutants including microplastics and the ecological and human health implications of contamination.
Safe and sustainable water in cities
This perspective piece on urban water management notes that microplastics are among several emerging contaminants threatening city water supplies, alongside industrial chemicals and agricultural runoff. It reinforces that microplastics are now considered a mainstream water quality concern alongside traditional pollutants as cities plan for future water security.
Managing Urban Water Resources: A Review of Challenges, Techniques, and Sustainability Strategies
Despite its title referencing urban water resource management, this paper is a broad review of water management challenges and tools — including hydrological modeling, remote sensing, and integrated governance strategies — rather than a study of microplastic pollution. It reviews planning frameworks and case studies related to water sustainability and does not examine microplastics or their health effects.
Water Pollution: A Menace to Mankind
This review discusses sources of water contamination — including faecal, domestic, and industrial wastes — and their threats to human and aquatic health, with a focus on microplastic pollution as an emerging concern. The authors call for improved water management policies to safeguard human health.
One water – evolving roles of our precious resource and critical challenges
This article reviews evolving challenges in water resource management, including water quality threats from emerging contaminants, aging infrastructure, and climate change. Microplastics are among the contaminants of growing concern for drinking water quality worldwide.
Water Wasted to the Sea?
This opinion piece discusses water resource management in California's San Francisco Bay Delta, examining conflicts between different uses of limited freshwater. While not focused on microplastics, it addresses the broader challenge of managing human impacts on water systems.
Editorial: (Micro)Plastics and the environment
This editorial introduces a research focus on microplastics and plastics in aquatic environments, highlighting gaps in knowledge about their abundance and toxicity especially in freshwater systems. It calls for more research to establish the extent and consequences of plastic pollution beyond the well-studied marine environment.
Treatment of Water and Wastewater: Challenges and Solutions
This editorial introduces a special issue focused on challenges and solutions in water and wastewater treatment, covering topics from emerging contaminants to innovative treatment technologies. The collection highlights how pollutants including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and heavy metals present ongoing challenges for conventional treatment systems. The study emphasizes the need for advanced treatment approaches and integrated management strategies to protect water quality and public health.
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.
Emerging contaminants and nanoplastics in the water environment: a matter of rising concern
This editorial introduces a scientific journal focused on emerging contaminants and nanoplastics in water environments, highlighting these as rising concerns for water quality and human health. The journal aims to advance knowledge on the detection, fate, and effects of plastic pollution in aquatic systems.
Freshwater microplastics governance and sustainable development: Pollution status, interactions, policies, and prospective studies
This review examines 20 years of research on microplastic pollution in freshwater environments, covering pollution status, interactions with other contaminants, and governance policies across multiple countries. The study suggests that while various policy frameworks exist for reducing microplastic sources and improving waste management, more coordinated monitoring and evaluation efforts are needed to effectively address freshwater microplastic contamination.
Water, Resources, and Resilience: Insights from Diverse Environmental Studies
This editorial introduced a collection of environmental studies addressing water resources management, water resilience, and sustainability challenges across diverse geographic and disciplinary contexts.
Sources, Risks, and Remediation Technologies of Pollutants in Aquatic Environments
This editorial introduces a special issue focused on pollutants in aquatic environments, covering their sources, ecological risks, and cleanup technologies. The collection addresses contamination from industrial wastewater, agricultural runoff, and urban sewage, including emerging pollutants like microplastics. The work highlights the need for continued research into effective remediation strategies to protect water quality and aquatic ecosystems.
Micro(nano)plastics in Aquatic Environments: State of the Art and Beyond
This editorial introduces a special issue on the state of micro- and nanoplastic pollution in aquatic environments. The collection brings together current research addressing the detection, distribution, and ecological impacts of these tiny plastic particles in water systems worldwide.
Investigating the Human Impacts and the Environmental Consequences of Microplastics Disposal into Water Resources
This study provides a systematic review of microplastic pollution in water resources, covering detection methods, analytical techniques, environmental depletion patterns, and human health implications, based on a comprehensive literature analysis from the 1970s onward.
Editorial: Impacts of emerging contaminants and their ecotoxicological consequences
This editorial introduces a research topic examining how emerging contaminants in aquatic ecosystems harm wildlife and disrupt ecosystems, especially when multiple stressors combine. The collection covers ten studies on contaminants including microplastics and their ecotoxicological effects at environmentally relevant concentrations.
Microplastic Hazards on Water Quality and Human Health
This paper summarizes the hazards of microplastics to water quality and human health. It highlights key exposure routes and the range of potential health concerns associated with microplastic contamination in drinking water and food sources.
Microplastics pollution in freshwater sediments: The pollution status assessment and sustainable management measures
This study assessed microplastic pollution levels in freshwater sediments across 84 study areas worldwide. Researchers found widespread contamination with significant variation in microplastic types, concentrations, and sources depending on the region and local land use. The review proposes sustainable management measures to address this growing threat to freshwater ecosystems and drinking water supplies.
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.
A Review of the Current Literature on Sources and Mitigation Strategies of Microplastics in Drinking Water
Researchers reviewed the key sources of microplastic contamination in drinking water — including plastic waste, synthetic clothing, and microbeads in personal care products — and assessed strategies for reducing exposure through improved treatment technologies and stricter regulations on plastic production. The review emphasizes that effective policy, combined with public awareness about single-use plastics, is essential for protecting drinking water quality.
Management of Contaminated Drinking Water Source in Rural Communities
This review examines strategies for managing safe drinking water in rural communities facing pressures from population growth, pollution, and climate change. While not focused on microplastics specifically, rural water management challenges include microplastic contamination of groundwater and surface water sources.