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Clean Water and Sanitation

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Editors:
  1. Walter Leal Filho

    1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

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  2. Anabela Marisa Azul

    1. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

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  3. Luciana Brandli

    1. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

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  4. Amanda Lange Salvia

    1. HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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  5. Tony Wall

    1. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, United Kingdom

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  • Fosters knowledge to support the UN Sustainable Development Goal to ensure access to water and sanitation for all
  • Comprehensively describes research, projects and practical action
  • Provides government agencies, education institutions and non-governmental agencies with a sound basis to promote sustainability efforts
  • Covers many countries, very international
  • Fills a market need, being the world´s most comprehensive publication on the topic

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (ENUNSDG)

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Table of contents (85 entries)

  1. Adaptive Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Management: Resilient Governance Systems

    • Felix Kwabena Donkor

  2. Adequate and Equitable Sanitation in Sri Lanka: Achievements, Issues, and Challenges

    • Praveena Rajkobal, Handun Athukorala

  3. Advanced Technologies in Water Treatment

    • Yerkanat Nurmukhambetuly Kanafin, Simon R. Collinson

  4. Approaches to Water Monitoring

    • Deborah V. Chapman, Stuart Warner, Chris Dickens

  5. Capacity Building in Water Resource Management in Developing Countries

    • Rama Devi Nandineni, Shanta Pragyan Dash

  6. Ceramic Water Filter as a Household Water Treatment System

    • Akuemaho Virgile Onésime Akowanou, Martin Pépin Aina

  7. Citizen Science and Water Quality Monitoring: Evidence from Dublin and Beyond

    • Susan Hegarty, Asma Slaimi, Noel O’Connor, Fiona Regan

  8. Constitutionality and the Co-management of Water Resources in Cameroon

    • Henry Bikwibili Tantoh

  9. Contribution of Citizens to Preserving Local Freshwater Ecosystems

    • Maria João Feio, Elina Ranta, Oghenekaro N. Odume

  10. Dam-Related Displacement and Sustainable Development Goal 6

    • Tony George Puthucherril, Mary Sabina Peters

  11. Dendrochemistry As Chronological Data Monitoring to Address Mercury Water Contamination

    • Sizenando Abreu, Daniela Sampaio, Fernando Morgado

  12. Earth’s Water Distribution

    • Oksana Tarasova, Dmytro Gulevets

  13. Ecosystem Services Approach and Natures Contributions to People (NCP) Help Achieve SDG6

    • Mary Kelly-Quinn, Mike Christie, José María Bodoque, Kathryn Schoenrock

  14. Effect of Water and Soil Quality on Crop Productivity

    • Suresh Ramaswwamyreddy, Prathima Basavaraju, Reshmi Devi T V, Nagesh M A

  15. Environmental and Ecological Flows for Sustainability

    • Raymundo Carlo Rodríguez Tejeda, Yaset Martínez Valdés

  16. Environmental Degradation’s Effect on the Gains Made in SDG6

    • Wilkister Nyaora Moturi

  17. Ethics in Water Resource Management: Roles, Frameworks and Principles

    • Ylenia Cendón-Flórez, Raffaella Pippa

  18. Fecal Sludge Management for Sustainable Cities: Glimpses from Kenya

    • Farida Karambu Gitonga, Tarisai Kanyepi, Vincent Itai Tanyanyiwa

  19. Gendered Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Equality: Challenges and Opportunities

    • Felix Kwabena Donkor

  20. Global Water Resources: Distribution and Demand

    • Valentyn Khilchevskyi, Viktor Karamushka
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About this book

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify. Therefore, there is an increasing need to search for integrated solutions to make development more sustainable. The United Nations has acknowledged the problem and approved the “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. On 1st January 2016, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the Agenda officially came into force. These goals cover the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic growth, social inclusion and environmental protection.  

The Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals comprehensively addresses the SDGs in an integrated way. It encompasses 17 volumes, each devoted to one of the 17 SDGs. This volume is dedicated to SDG 6 "Ensure availability and sustainable management of water andsanitation for all". Water and sanitation are fundamental to human well-being. Integrated water resources management is essential to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all and to the realization of Sustainable Development.

Concretely, the defined targets are:

  • Achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all
  • Achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations
  • Improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally
  • Substantially increase water-use efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of freshwater to address water scarcity and substantially reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity 
  • Implement integrated water resources management at all levels, including through transboundary cooperation as appropriate
  • Protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes 
  • Expand international cooperation and capacity-building support to developing countries in water- and sanitation-related activities and programmes, including water harvesting, desalination, water efficiency, wastewater treatment, recycling and reuse technologies
  • Support and strengthen the participation of local communities in improving Uwater and sanitation management
Editorial Board


Ulisses M. Azeiteiro, Anabela Marisa Azul, Luciana Brandli, Dominique Darmendrail, Despo Fatta–Kassinos, Walter Leal Filho, Susan Hegarty, Amanda Lange Salvia, Albert Llausàs, Paula Duarte Lopes,Javier Marugán, Fernando Morgado, Wilkister Nyaora Moturi, Karel F. Mulder, Alesia Dedaa Ofori, Sandra Ricart


Editors and Affiliations

  • European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  • Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  • Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  • HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Amanda Lange Salvia

  • International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, United Kingdom

    Tony Wall

About the editors

Walter Leal Filho (BSc, PhD, DSc, DPhil, DEd, DL, DLitt) is a Senior Professor and Head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany, and Chair of Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is the initiator of the Word Sustainable Development Symposia (WSSD-U) series, and chairs the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme. Professor Leal Filho has written, co-written, edited or co-edited more than 400 publications, including books, book chapters and papers in refereed journals.

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