Water, the Environment, and the Sustainable Development Goals

Prof. Dr. Mohammad Hadi Dehghani is a full professor at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences, School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. His scientific research interests include environmental science and he is the author of various research studies published in national and international journals and conference proceedings and head of several research projects at the TUMS. He is an editorial board member, guest editor, and reviewer in many internal and international journals and a member of several international science committees worldwide. He is a supervisor and advisor for many PhD and MSc theses at the TUMS. He is currently also a member of the Iranian Association of Environmental Health and member of the Institute for Environmental Research at the TUMS.Rama Rao Karri is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at Universiti Teknologi Brunei. He holds a PhD from IIT Delhi and a Master’s from IIT Kanpur in Chemical Engineering. With over 20 years of experience in academia, industry, and research, he has experience working in multidisciplinary fields and has expertise in various evolutionary optimization techniques and process modelling. His expertise extends to process modeling and simulation, focusing on optimizing chemical and environmental processes to improve efficiency and sustainability. He serves on editorial boards of several international journals and acts as a peer reviewer for numerous reputed publications. He has held editorial roles including Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor for journals such as Scientific Reports and the International Journal of Energy and Water Resources. He is also a guest editor for special issues on nanocomposites and environmental engineering topics. Additionally, he contributes to authoring and editing books on sustainable technologies, environmental remediation, and process monitoring with leading academic publishers. He also has the distinction of being listed in the Top 2% of the world’s most influential scientists in the area of environmental sciences and chemical engineering since 2021, compiled and published by Stanford University.Dr. Inderjeet Tyagi is working as a Scientist at ZSI, Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change, Kolkata, India. To his expertise, Dr. Tyagi is working in the field of Wastewater treatment, Water Quality, Environmental Metagenomics, and Environmental Management for the past several years. To his credit, Dr. Tyagi had published 120+ SCI papers with Citation~8600 and an h-index of 51 with a cumulative impact factor >550. More to this, he is leading Five (5) national and international projects related to wastewater and water quality assessment in heavily polluted areas in India. Further, he is also on the reviewer panel of more than 40 international journals belonging to well-known publishers like Elsevier, Nature, Springer Nature, Taylor Francis, ACS, etc. Recently, he was awarded the “India Prime Education Quality Award 2021” for his outstanding contribution to the field of wastewater treatment and Environmental Management. He is a lifetime member of the Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) and a Member of the International Society of Wetland Scientists (International Chapter). He is the Editor of One Elsevier edited book entitled “Sustainable Materials for Sensing and Remediation of Noxious Pollutants” DProf. Prof. Miklas Scholz, cand ing, BEng (equiv), PgC, MSc, PhD, DSc, CWEM, CEnv, CSci, CEng, FHEA, FIEMA, FCIWEM, FICE, Fellow of IWA, Fellow of IETI is a Senior Expert in Water Management at atene KOM, Germany and a Distinguished Professor at Johannesburg University, South Africa. Miklas holds the Chair in Civil Engineering as a Professor at The University of Salford, United Kingdom, and is a Senior Researcher at the South Ural State University, The Russian Federation. He is also a Technical Specialist for Nexus by Sweden and a Hydraulic Engineer at Kunststoff-Technik Adams, Germany. He has published 8 books and 314 journal articles. Prof. Scholz has total citations of about 13718 (8569 citations since 2018), resulting in an h-index of 57 and an i10-Index of 227. He belongs to the top 2% academics regarding the i10-index in the past five years. Miklas also belongs to the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University. A bibliometric analysis of all constructed wetland-related publications and corresponding authors with a minimum number of 20 publications and 100 citations indicates that Miklas is on place 5 in the world of about 70 authors (including those who have sadly passed away). In 2019, Prof. Scholz was awarded EURO 7M for the EU H2020 REA project Water Retention and Nutrient Recycling in Soils and Streams for Improved Agricultural Production (WATERAGRI). He received EURO 1.52M for the JPI Water 2018 project Research-based Assessment of Integrated approaches to Nature-based SOLUTIONS (RAINSOLUTIONS).Author's expertise:Sustainability; civil engineering; environmental engineering; agricultural engineering; environmental science; water resources engineering; agricultural water management; nature-based solution; pollution control; biological filtration; wastewater treatment; decision support system; treatment wetland; integrated constructed wetland; engineering hydrology; storm water management; sustainable flood retention basin; dam risk failure; sustainable drainage system; climate change adaptation; permeable pavement system; pond; capillary suction time.

• Dedication About the Editors Acknowledgments Water and its effect on SDGs 1. Scientometrics and overview of Water, Environment, and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2. Water Pollution, Sources and Health implications of the environmental contaminants on the Aquatic Ecosystem and Human: Approach towards Sustainable Development Goals 3. Water and access to sanitation and hygiene 4. Water conservation for environmental sustainability 5. Water recycling and reuse 6. Sustainable Water Management in Food and Agriculture Industries: Preventive Practices, Sensory Aspects, Emerging Concerns, and Non-thermal Strategies 7. Water Resource Management to Meet SDG13 on Climate Change 8. Effect of COVID-19 on water quality and emerging point-of-care detection technologies of water systems 9. Cost Analysis in terms of Water and Waste Water Treatment Water Treatment Processes 10. Water and wastewater safety plan in sub-Saharan Africa 11. Heterogeneous Catalytic Ozonation for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals 12. Electrochemical treatment of wastewater 13. Desalination of Seawater and Related Technologies 14. Nanotechnology-based Approaches for Remediation of Organic and Inorganic Pollutants from Aqueous Medium 15. Phenothiazine dyes removal on activated carbon developed from hydrothermally treated phyllanthus emblica fruit stones from water 16. Phycoremediation and water reuse in bioenergy production from algae and cyanobacteria 17. Biochar from microalgae: A biotechnology approach for water treatment systems 18. Microencapsulated Phase change materials for solar desalination system: An innovative technique to producing and storing clean, sustainable water