Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology covers established, developing, and emerging areas of water research in the built environment, including monitoring and analytical techniques; physical, chemical, and biological processes for water and wastewater treatment; membrane technologies and desalination; and advanced or highly innovative purification technologies.
Papers will address all issues relevant to water sustainability in built or engineered systems including, but not limited to the following.
- Sustainability assessment for new and existing technologies
- Resource recovery from waste streams
- Urban and storm water management
- Management strategies for agricultural wastewaters and associated nonpoint source pollution
- Water infrastructure and distribution systems
- Decentralised treatment
- Water reuse
- Global sanitation
- Climate change insofar as it relates to challenges that extreme events pose to resource management and infrastructure.
As challenges to water sustainability extend beyond those solely scientific and technological in nature, articles, expert opinions and perspectives on relevant legislation and water policy will also be emphasised.
Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology papers must report a significant advance in the theory, fundamental understanding, practice or application of water research, management, engineering or technology.
The journal places special focus on issues associated with water sustainability, as well as research that may lead to more secure, resilient and reliable water resources. And it welcomes inter- and multidisciplinary work contributing to any of the above developments that is likely to be of interest to the broad community that the Journal addresses.
Manuscripts should be written to be accessible to scientists and engineers in all disciplines associated with the Journal.
All manuscripts must highlight their novel features and explain the significance of the work relative to related studies in their field as well as the likely impact on relevant water communities in industry, government or academia.
