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CALL FOR PAPERS: Monitoring sanitation and wastewater services for the Sustainable Development Goals

This collection is a collaboration between the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene, UN-Habitat and npj Clean Water  Submission deadline: 01 February 2024

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  • Modern urban waste water treatment plant.

    Monitoring sanitation and wastewater services for the Sustainable Development Goals: This collection of papers – a collaboration between the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene, UN-Habitat and npj Clean Water – will broadly explore efforts to monitor the full sanitation chain from containment, transport, treatment and final disposal or reuse.

    Open for submissions
  • Dr. Eric M. V. Hoek, a Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at University of California Los Angeles and currently the Editor-in-Chief of npj Microgravity is the 2022 Athalie Richardson Irvine Clarke Prize Laureate for Outstanding Achievement in Water Science and Technology.

  • In honor of World Water Day (March 22nd), Prof. Eric M. V. Hoek the Editor-in-Chief of npj Clean Water shared his thoughts on how his research addresses issues directly related to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 – Clean Water and Sanitation. He also talks about translating science into realities that can provide practical solutions to our challenges and nurture the public engagement.

  • Nanofiltration in the Global Water Cycle

    Nanofiltration in the Global Water Cycle: Nanofiltration plays an important role in the global water cycle and we welcome submissions that address this potential.

    Open for submissions

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  • Climate resilient development has become the new paradigm for sustainable development influencing theory and practice across all sectors globally—gaining particular momentum in the water sector, since water security is intimately connected to climate change. Climate resilience is increasingly recognised as being inherently political, yet efforts often do not sufficiently engage with context-specific socio-ecological, cultural and political processes, including structural inequalities underlying historically produced vulnerabilities. Depoliticised approaches have been shown to pose barriers to concerted and meaningful change. In this article, world-leading water specialists from academic and practitioner communities reflect on, and share examples of, the importance of keeping people and politics at the centre of work on climate resilient water security. We propose a roadmap to meaningfully engage with the complex politics of climate resilient water security. It is critical to re-politicise climate resilience to enable efforts towards sustainable development goal 6—clean water and sanitation for all.

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Water Purification

This Collection brings together research dedicated to the purification of alternative (impaired) water sources.
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