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ClearAddressing 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.
Emerging and traditional contaminants in water resources: a review from the perspective of the American continent
This systematic review examines emerging contaminants in water resources across the Americas, including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products. The findings show that current water treatment systems are often inadequate for removing these pollutants, meaning people may be exposed to microplastics and other harmful substances through their drinking water.
US drinking water quality: exposure risk profiles for seven legacy and emerging contaminants
Researchers profiled the risk exposure patterns for seven contaminants found in US drinking water, including both legacy pollutants and emerging threats, finding that contamination is widespread even in developed water systems. Understanding which contaminants affect which communities is essential for targeting public health protections and clean water policies.
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.
A Current Review of Water Pollutants in American Continent: Trends and Perspectives in Detection, Health Risks, and Treatment Technologies
This review surveys water pollution across the American continent, covering heavy metals, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and emerging contaminants including microplastics. The authors found a wide diversity of pollutants affecting water bodies throughout the region, with treatment solutions needing to be tailored to local conditions. The review emphasizes that water treatment facilities must be designed to address the specific mix of contaminants present, including the growing challenge of microplastic pollution.
Assessing the social and economic implications on water security in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, Eastern Cape of South Africa
Researchers assessed water security challenges in South Africa's Nelson Mandela Bay municipality, finding that water shortages disproportionately affect rural and underprivileged communities and that authorities fail to adopt multidimensional approaches addressing linked social and economic factors.
Implications of climate change on water quality and sanitation in climate hotspot locations: A case study in Indonesia
This review assesses water quality challenges in Indonesia, where 70% of rivers are heavily polluted and only 10% of rainfall reaches groundwater. Water availability has dropped sharply, with a supply deficit of 5.5 cubic hectometers per year. While focused on broader water quality issues including industrial and domestic waste, the findings illustrate how inadequate water infrastructure in climate-vulnerable regions leaves populations exposed to emerging contaminants like microplastics.
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.
Plastic Suffocation: Climate Change Threatens Indigenous Populations and Traditional Ecological Knowledge
This policy paper argues that Indigenous communities bear a disproportionate burden from plastic pollution and associated climate change effects, particularly through contamination of traditional marine food systems. The author argues that plastic waste threatens traditional ecological knowledge and cultural practices tied to healthy ocean environments.
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.
Thawing Permafrost Releases Industrial Contaminants into Arctic Communities
As permafrost thaws due to climate change, long-trapped industrial pollutants are being released into Arctic communities, threatening traditional foods and drinking water for Indigenous peoples. These contaminants, from both local and distant sources, are now entering the environment in new ways. The situation highlights how climate change can worsen pollution exposure and create new health risks for vulnerable communities.
Perceptions of Teachers in Training on Water Issues and Their Relationship to the SDGs
Researchers surveyed pre-service teachers' knowledge and attitudes about water conservation issues and their links to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, finding that while awareness of clean water access was high, understanding of indirect water-related SDG connections — including pollution and ecosystem health — was limited.
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This review examines water security challenges for coastal communities at the land-sea interface, discussing how sea-level rise, ocean warming, and deoxygenation may exacerbate saltwater intrusion into freshwater supplies and disrupt the delicate balance between freshwater supply and demand in coastal settings.
Emerging pollutants of water supplies and the effect of climate change
This review examined emerging contaminants in water supplies including pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and heavy metals, with a focus on how climate change alters their mobilization, persistence, and treatment removal efficiency. The authors highlighted that current water treatment systems were not designed to handle many of these pollutants.
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.
Contribution of glaciers to water, energy and food security in mountain regions: current perspectives and future priorities
This review examines the critical role of mountain glaciers in providing water, energy, and food security for hundreds of millions of people, highlighting how accelerating glacial loss due to climate change threatens freshwater availability and calls for urgent research into adaptation strategies.
Indigenous and Modern Practices for Water Conservation and Management in Africa
This review examines indigenous and modern water conservation practices in Africa, focusing on how traditional knowledge systems can be integrated with contemporary water management technology to address growing scarcity. The authors identify numerous traditional techniques—including stone bunds, sand dams, and sacred grove protection—that complement engineering-based solutions in the context of climate variability.
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.
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.
The Historical Significance of Water
This textbook chapter explores the historical significance of water to human civilizations as part of a holistic introduction to water's environmental and biological roles, situating historical perspectives alongside contemporary challenges such as microplastic pollution and climate change.
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.
A review of the influence mechanisms of climate-induced events on groundwater microplastic contamination: A focus on aquifer vulnerabilities and mitigation strategies
This narrative review examines how climate change events — floods, droughts, sea level rise, and heat waves — are influencing the transport and accumulation of microplastics in groundwater and freshwater aquifers. Flooding emerged as the most significant driver, flushing surface microplastics into subsurface environments, which is alarming because groundwater is a primary drinking water source for billions of people globally.
Servicios ecosistémicos en áreas de montaña: beneficios y amenazas
This review examines the ecosystem services provided by mountain areas, including water supply, biodiversity, climate regulation, and cultural heritage, while identifying growing threats from climate change, land use intensification, and pollution. The authors argue that mountain ecosystem services are critically undervalued in national and global sustainability frameworks.
State of Freshwater Resources in the Pacific
This review characterized freshwater resource variability across Oceania, finding that Pacific Island Countries and Territories have lower water security than Australia and New Zealand. Small, low-lying atolls face the most severe constraints with no surface water and limited groundwater, making them almost entirely dependent on rainfall collection.