Cleaner Water (ISSN: 2950-2632) is an international, cross-disciplinary companion journal to Journal of Cleaner Production that publishes original full-length research articles, short communications, perspectives, and reviews on the science, engineering and technology of the water and wastewater treatment, water quality, and its management including policy strategies.With a central purpose to support and accelerate Sustainable Development Goal 6, "Clean water and sanitation", Cleaner Water focuses on all aspects of cutting-edge technology, theories, societal issues, and policies that advance the sustainable supply of clean water. The pursued "cleaner approach" involves all the water matrices i.e. potable water, domestic and industrial wastewater, stormwater, freshwater and groundwater with the inspiring principle of considering water a precious resource to save and protect, whose reuse must be encouraged as much as possible.The journal provides a platform for publishing high-quality interdisciplinary papers aimed to promote a sustainable water use through fundamental and applied research, innovative technologies, and best management practices. This challenging objective includes the contributions of theoretical insights by scientists as well as case-studies from practitioners focused on the development and optimization of engineered treatment, management, and supply strategies.The scope includes (but is not limited to) the following topics, where the cleaner and sustainability dimensions are highlighted:Water collection and distribution systems; Advanced urban wastewater treatment technologies; Micropollutant fate and removal in wastewater treatment plants; Resources and energy recovery from wastewater; Water agricultural reuse; Sludge treatment and disposal; Sludge agricultural reuse; Hygienization in wastewater treatment; Innovative industrial wastewater treatment technologies; Xenobiotic removal; Water reuse in the production cycles; Emerging pollutants in water and wastewater; Circular economy in water and wastewater systems; Risk assessment of wastewater systems; Water quality monitoring; Impacts of climate change and extreme weather on water sustainability; Drinking water treatment; Potable reuse; Water-energy-food nexus; Water policy and legislation issues; Groundwater remediation; Surface water remediation; Stormwater management; Nature based treatment solutions; Modelling and control of treatment processes
Water plays a critical role in supporting life and ecosystems. However, a combination of ever-growing demands on water resources and low water use efficiency has caused severe water and environmental stresses, increasing the risk of contamination. An interdisciplinary, integrated and balanced approach is required to secure the safety of the water supply and water environmental management systems.The development of a sustainable, multifaceted and multilevel water cycle system is a new and fast-growing focus in the field of water. The water cycle has traditionally referred to the natural circulation system, where water evaporates, condenses and falls to the ground in a continuous cycle. However, attention is shifting to the water meta-cycle, where water has multiple interactions with the environment, ecology, hydrology, hydraulics, civil engineering, meteorology and topography under different scales and dimensions. Understanding this water meta-cycle, the processes involved, and their potential impact is a scientific challenge of enormous importance. Progress is needed to advance our knowledge and to inform sustainable development.Water Cycle is an interdisciplinary open access journal that publishes top-tier original research in all areas of water cycles, including meta-cycles. It examines their relationship to science, technology, society, economics, health, culture, policy, regulation and strategy. It also offers water academics, engineers and practitioners the opportunity to exchange knowledge and experience.Papers will report significant advances in a wide range of categories including (but not limited to):The different dimensions of water cycles: natural cycle, social cycle, ecological cycle, engineering cycle, cascading cycle and process cycle.The different scales of water cycles: water meta-cycle, local cycle, regional cycle, watershed cycle and environmental cycle.Water conservation in agricultural, industrial, domestic and municipal applications.Water treatment, recycle and reuse for different water resources, including wastewater, industrial wastewater, drinking water, reclaimed water, rainwater, seawater, mine water and brackish water.The water cycle-environment-ecosystem nexus.The water-waste-soil-atmosphere nexus.How water cycles interlink and interact with elements, materials and energy flows.Water mediated material transformation, element cycle and energy flow.The interactions, synergies and coordination between water conservation, reuse and the water cycle.Water system analysis, water policy and water management.Editorial Board
In association with the International Water AssociationWater Research X is a Gold Open Access sister journal of Water Research, featuring concise, letter-style, leading-edge research papers, visionary perspectives and editorials, and mini-reviews of emerging topics. The Journal welcomes contributions on all aspects of the science and technology of the anthropogenic water cycle, water quality, and its management worldwide. A broad outline of the journal's scope includes:• Treatment processes for water and wastewaters (municipal, agricultural, industrial, and on-site treatment), including resource recovery and residuals management; • Urban hydrology including sewer systems, storm water management, and green infrastructure; • Drinking water treatment and distribution; • Potable and non-potable water reuse; • Sanitation, public health, and risk assessment; • Anaerobic digestion, solid and hazardous waste management, including source characterization and the effects and control of leachates and gaseous emissions; • Contaminants (chemical, microbial, anthropogenic particles such as nanoparticles or microplastics) and related water quality sensing, monitoring, fate, and assessment; • Anthropogenic impacts on inland, tidal, coastal and urban waters, focusing on surface and ground waters, and point and non-point sources of pollution; • Environmental restoration, linked to surface water, groundwater and groundwater remediation; • Analysis of the interfaces between sediments and water, and between water and atmosphere, focusing specifically on anthropogenic impacts; • Mathematical modelling, systems analysis, machine learning, and beneficial use of big data related to the anthropogenic water cycle; • Socio-economic, policy, and regulations studies.Water Research X is an interdisciplinary journal with an applied edge. This means that papers that go into too many details of one of the supporting disciplines (such as chemistry, toxicology, microbiology, material sciences, etc.) without making a good link with water research in general may be rejected up-front. Water Research X has changed its paper structures, please find details in Guide for Authors (with a link to the page).EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Professor Zhiguo Yuan, The University of Queensland Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology, Brisbane, Australia
