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ClearClimate Change and Adverse Public Health Impacts on Human Health and Water Resources
This review examines how climate change is creating interconnected threats to public health and freshwater resources worldwide. Researchers found that rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, and extreme weather events are degrading water quality through increased contamination from pollutants including microplastics. The study highlights the urgent need for integrated strategies that address water management, pollution control, and public health simultaneously.
The challenges of water, waste and climate change in cities
Researchers assessed water, waste, and climate challenges across 45 cities and categorized them into five sustainability tiers, finding that inadequate infrastructure, poor waste management, and climate change together strain urban resilience worldwide. The study calls for long-term urban water strategies and city-to-city learning networks to accelerate the transition to sustainable water management.
Environmental Challenges
This overview examines major environmental challenges stemming from human activities, including climate change, poor waste management, water scarcity, and pollution from plastics and microplastics. The study discusses how these interconnected issues threaten ecosystems, biodiversity, and community well-being at local and global scales. It emphasizes the need for coordinated action across multiple levels to address these growing environmental concerns.
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.
The Impact of Climate Change on the Failure of Water Supply Infrastructure: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Current State of Knowledge
Researchers conducted a bibliometric analysis of scientific literature on how climate change affects the reliability and failure rates of water supply infrastructure. The study identified key research trends, major contributing countries, and the interconnection between climate-related stressors and water system failures. Evidence indicates that rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and extreme weather events are increasingly threatening the integrity of water distribution networks.
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.
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.
The Health of the Water Planet: Challenges and Opportunities in the Mediterranean Area. An Overview
This overview of water challenges in the Mediterranean area examines threats to water security including pollution, climate change, and overextraction, connecting water quality to the UN Sustainable Development Goals on clean water, aquatic life, and terrestrial ecosystems.
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.
Time for decisive actions to protect freshwater ecosystems from global changes
This review called for decisive actions to protect freshwater ecosystems from global changes including climate change, habitat modification, pollution, and invasive species, emphasizing the critical services these ecosystems provide to humans.
Fresh Water availability and It’s Global challenge
This review discusses the global challenge of freshwater scarcity, noting that less than 1% of Earth's water is accessible fresh water, and that climate change, urbanization, and pollution are making the situation worse. While broadly focused on water availability, the review is relevant because water contamination from industrial and agricultural pollutants, including microplastics, further reduces the supply of safe drinking water. Protecting freshwater resources from contamination is essential for public health worldwide.
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.
Military conflicts and water: consequences and risks
This review examines the consequences and risks of military conflicts on water resources, analyzing how armed conflicts disrupt water infrastructure, contaminate supplies, and create long-term environmental and public health hazards for affected populations.
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.
Multi-Interacting Natural and Anthropogenic Stressors on Freshwater Ecosystems: Their Current Status and Future Prospects for 21st Century
This review examines how multiple environmental stressors including pollution, climate change, invasive species, and nanoparticles are simultaneously degrading freshwater ecosystems worldwide. The combined effects of these stressors, including microplastic contamination, threaten both the ecological health of freshwater systems and the clean water supplies that human civilization depends on.
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.
Climate Change, Water Quality and Water-Related Challenges: A Review with Focus on Pakistan
This review examines how climate change is affecting water quality and water-related health challenges, with a focus on Pakistan. Researchers found that rising temperatures, altered rainfall patterns, and extreme weather events are intensifying water contamination, including emerging pollutants. The study highlights the compounding effects of climate variability on already strained water resources in developing countries.
Global multi-pollutant modelling of water quality: scientific challenges and future directions
Researchers argue that tackling global water pollution requires modeling multiple contaminants — microplastics, nutrients, chemicals, and pathogens — simultaneously rather than studying each in isolation. They identify pollution hotspots across Europe, North America, and South Asia where rivers carry dangerous combinations of these pollutants, and call for models that can directly inform policy decisions.
Water security in the polycrisis: between negative and positive tipping points
This review examines how water security is threatened by multiple converging crises in the Anthropocene, including climate change, conflict, and pollution including microplastics. The study suggests that investments in institutional mechanisms, technical innovations, and environmental cooperation are needed to transition from negative to positive tipping points in water management.
A global hydrology research agenda fit for the 2030s
A group of global hydrology researchers outlines priority research questions for freshwater science through 2030, identifying key knowledge gaps around water quality, ecosystem health, and emerging contaminants including microplastics. The agenda calls for more integrated monitoring and modeling to address growing pressures on freshwater resources worldwide.
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.
Interconnected impacts of water resource management and climate change on microplastic pollution and riverine biocoenosis: A review by freshwater ecologists
Researchers reviewed how river hydrology, water resource management, and climate change interact to influence microplastic pollution in freshwater ecosystems. They found that floods can flush microplastics from catchments, while reservoirs act as both sinks and sources, and extreme weather events driven by climate change tend to concentrate microplastics and threaten aquatic organisms. The study highlights a critical gap in research that jointly addresses these interconnected factors and calls for integrated policy approaches.
The Effects of Climate Variation and Anthropogenic Activity on Karst Spring Discharge Based on the Wavelet Coherence Analysis and the Multivariate Statistical
Researchers analyzed climate variation and human activity effects on karst spring discharge using wavelet coherence analysis, finding that anthropogenic factors including land-use changes increasingly influence groundwater dynamics alongside natural climate variability.
Overcoming the Challenges of Water, Waste and Climate Change in Asian Cities
Researchers assessed urban water management capacity across 11 Asian cities, finding that solid waste treatment, drinking water access, and flood governance are top priorities, with high variation between cities suggesting strong potential for city-to-city learning and cross-sector collaboration.