Sustainability

Multidisciplinary, innovative and high values development of high performance, cost-effective and environmentally acceptable separation systems is highly desired to tackle the sustainability challenges that facing current desalination technology. Owing to their versatility and immense potentials to

The growth in population and in the standard of living in the developing countries coupled with inefficient use of water and pollution of available water resources have driven desalination to be a major source of fresh water for both domestic and industrial purposes. The potential environmental impac

Global water planners are increasingly considering seawater desalination as an alternative to traditional freshwater supplies. Since desalination is both expensive and energy intensive, taking advantage of favorable natural and societal conditions while siting desalination facilities can provide sig

The combined global impacts of water shortage and energy provide strong impetus to use innovative combinations of technologies to supply sustainably produced high quality water. Recent innovations have focused on the integration of membrane processes with other chemical separation unit processes and

Africa is not only suffering from water shortage but also from data shortage. The continent cannot fall back on a cross-country hydro-meteorological measuring net. Development cooperation organizations as planners often have the problem that no, or insufficient, hydro-meteorological data is availabl

Over one billion people are without access to safe water, while twice as many lack access to improved sanitation services, making these two of the world’s most pressing issues. The sustainability of critical infrastructure systems, such as water and sanitation, is a necessary (though not sufficient)

In order to reach the UN Millennium Development Goals for significantly reducing the number of people without access to adequate sanitation, new holistic concepts are needed, focusing on economically feasible closed-loop ecological sanitation systems rather than on expensive end-of-pipe technologies

This paper discusses several options to achieve sustainability in wastewater treatment in urban areas of the Mediterranean region. The first was by decentralizing the treatment rather than installing expensive sewer systems that combine and increase the volume of the waste. The next involved choosin

Zer0-M, short for “Sustainable Concepts Towards a Zero Outflow Municipality”, is a project financed by the MEDA Water programme of the European Union (EU). This project aims at concepts and technologies to achieve optimised close-loop usage of all water flows in small municipalities or settlements (

Sustainability has various meanings in the context of water reclamation and reuse. In one sense it acknowledges that to sustain our water supplies we must develop technologies that can efficiently reclaim wastewater to augment natural supplies. Membrane technology is playing a vital role in this app