Special Issue on Planning, Designing and Managing Decentralized Drinking Water Supply System—Editorial

Chicgoua Noubactep

doi:10.3390/pr9060930

Abstract

The growing demands for affordable and applicable technologies for decentralized safe drinking water provision have instigated technical innovations in the water filtration industry. Adsorptive filtration appears to be the most affordable, resilient, and socially acceptable solution for households and small communities worldwide. However, water filtration devices have not yet been widely implemented due to lack of awareness for the efficiency of such systems using locally available materials. Water filtration has the potential to secure universal access to safe drinking water by 2030. This special issue has elucidated the applicability, benefits, constraints, effectiveness, and limitations of metallic iron as filter material for safe drinking water provision. Tools to make rainwater a primary water source are also presented together with ways to transform existing centralized water management systems into decentralized ones (sectorization). The knowledge is applicable to a wide variety of situations on a global scale.

Highlights

Hering et al [1] called for the “synthesis of water research to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.”
The objective was to summarize the state-of-the-art knowledge on various available technologies to the point where researchers can directly go for pilot testing such that the remaining nine to ten years will be enough to achieve Goal 6 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is a great pleasure and a pride to state that this goal could be achieved for the metallic iron (Fe0 )-based technology for decentralized safe drinking water provision
Considering the decentralization approach of Vegas-Niño et al [15], RHW can be used in the sectorization of the water supply network for the sustainable development of any city

Summary

Introduction

Hering et al [1] called for the “synthesis of water research to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.” The present Special Issue was an answer to this call. The objective was to summarize the state-of-the-art knowledge on various available technologies to the point where researchers can directly go for pilot testing such that the remaining nine to ten years will be enough to achieve Goal 6 of the SDGs. It is a great pleasure and a pride to state that this goal could be achieved for the metallic iron (Fe0 )-based technology for decentralized safe drinking water provision. The articles covered the broad range of water management comprising safe drinking water supply [4,5], wastewater management [4,6], groundwater recharge [6], and system design [4,7].

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