Water SecurityPub Date : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2024-01-02DOI: 10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100161
V.S. Manivasagam
{"title":"Remote sensing of irrigation: Research trends and the direction to next-generation agriculture through data-driven scientometric analysis","authors":"V.S. Manivasagam","doi":"10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100161","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Monitoring agricultural water usage with remote sensing technology has shown to be an effective strategy for dealing with water security in the digital era. Given the massive research over the last few decades, a scientometric approach is attempted to show an accurate picture and trends in remote sensing of irrigation research. This study retrieved 14,869 documents from the Scopus database related to remote sensing-guided irrigation studies during 2003–2022. This study employs a systematic approach to identify and analyze pertinent literature related to remote sensing of irrigation and highlights the most influential institutions, countries, and journals, as well as the prominent research subjects and trends. The analysis revealed that the research on remote sensing of irrigation had grown exponentially over the last two decades, indicating a growing interest in this field. Further, this study highlighted the contribution of satellite missions, specifically open-access imagery, to the field of irrigation research through the use of high-resolution sensors. This study offers comprehensive insight to researchers, policymakers, and practitioners in precise monitoring and management of irrigation, enabling them to effectively address forthcoming water security challenges.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37308,"journal":{"name":"Water Security","volume":"21 ","pages":"Article 100161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139108048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Water SecurityPub Date : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2024-01-06DOI: 10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100163
Chad Staddon , Alexandra Brewis
{"title":"Household Water Containers: Mitigating risks for improved Modular, Adaptive, and Decentralized (MAD) water systems","authors":"Chad Staddon , Alexandra Brewis","doi":"10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100163","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While the literature on the design and operation of safe water sources in low-income communities is huge, little attention has been paid to the design of systems for the safe transportation and storage of water by households between source and point of use. The design of water containers like the near-ubiquitous “jerry can” in relation to how they are used and the potential risks incurred has received little attention. This is despite, as we explain, the strong influence that water container design has on hazards associated with fetching and storing water. This paper advances the argument that MAD (“modular, adaptive and decentralised”) approaches to rethinking water containers are possible and points to examples that have been trialled in different locations around the world. Placed in a broader theoretical framework, the objects that are used as water containers can even be viewed as “engines of history” through which human communities interact with the (water) environment and can create off-grid infrastructures. Key suggestions for design improvement include recognizing the role of water containers in heterogenous networks and in wider socio-technical systems that can reinforce marginalization, and the critical need for localized, community-collaborative co-production.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37308,"journal":{"name":"Water Security","volume":"21 ","pages":"Article 100163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468312423000317/pdfft?md5=eb26f68476482466f04a551c27e0be46&pid=1-s2.0-S2468312423000317-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139108051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Water SecurityPub Date : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2024-01-02DOI: 10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100160
Cliff Nyaga , Jacob Katuva , Patrick Thomson
{"title":"The challenges of implementing modular, adaptive, and decentralised water technologies – The perspective of a rural service provider in Kenya","authors":"Cliff Nyaga , Jacob Katuva , Patrick Thomson","doi":"10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100160","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>FundiFix is a social enterprise that offers rural water systems maintenance service in rural Kenya. In recent years FundiFix has been operating these three types of water system that fall under the MAD (modular, adaptive, and decentralised) water systems paradigm: Solar powered groundwater kiosks, water ATMs, and reverse osmosis filtrations systems. This article outlines some of the challenges of operating these in a rural context. We identify four key challenges that must be considered if these technologies are to provide sustainable benefits to rural communities: managing higher capital and maintenance costs; the requirement for more skilled staff to manage and maintain them; the risk of the most marginalised communities being left behind; the importance of considering maintenance from the start.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37308,"journal":{"name":"Water Security","volume":"21 ","pages":"Article 100160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468312423000287/pdfft?md5=d22bc78281d26afa0586f684737a1898&pid=1-s2.0-S2468312423000287-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139108049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Water SecurityPub Date : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2023-11-29DOI: 10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100147
Alexsandro J. dos Santos , Ronald Vargas , Carla Oporto , Marcos R.V. Lanza , Abdoulaye Thiam , Ricardo A. Torres-Palma , Ricardo González-Rodríguez , Ulises J. Jáuregui-Haza , Velia Sosa , Patricio J. Espinoza-Montero , Andrea Nájera , Yvens Chérémond , Tzayam Pérez , Valeria D. Quezada , Griselda Caballero-Manrique , Verónica Rojas , Haruna L. Barazorda-Ccahuana , Andrés P. Parada , Sergi Garcia-Segura
{"title":"Electrochemical technologies as modular adaptative decentralized treatment systems to enact water security for Latin America: Insights and prospects","authors":"Alexsandro J. dos Santos , Ronald Vargas , Carla Oporto , Marcos R.V. Lanza , Abdoulaye Thiam , Ricardo A. Torres-Palma , Ricardo González-Rodríguez , Ulises J. Jáuregui-Haza , Velia Sosa , Patricio J. Espinoza-Montero , Andrea Nájera , Yvens Chérémond , Tzayam Pérez , Valeria D. Quezada , Griselda Caballero-Manrique , Verónica Rojas , Haruna L. Barazorda-Ccahuana , Andrés P. Parada , Sergi Garcia-Segura","doi":"10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100147","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Decentralized water/wastewater treatment technologies have emerged to reach a better and more sustainable society. Access to clean water for all is a major goal identified by the United Nations to be reached by 2030. How would this concept of decentralized treatments using electrochemical technologies impact the way of living in Latin American countries? This perspective aims to identify the water/wastewater challenges in these regions, and the possible opportunities to overcome them by using decentralized electrochemical water treatment technologies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37308,"journal":{"name":"Water Security","volume":"20 ","pages":"Article 100147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138465932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Water SecurityPub Date : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2023-11-28DOI: 10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100146
Brandon Reyneke , Tinta C. Morris , Pilar Fernández-Ibáñez , Kevin G. McGuigan , Ashley Heida , Kerry A. Hamilton , Wesaal Khan
{"title":"Decentralised solar-based water treatment – Bridging the last mile to water security in low- and middle-income countries?","authors":"Brandon Reyneke , Tinta C. Morris , Pilar Fernández-Ibáñez , Kevin G. McGuigan , Ashley Heida , Kerry A. Hamilton , Wesaal Khan","doi":"10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100146","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While significant progress has been made to ensure universal access to safe drinking water, limitations associated with the implementation of centralised water supplies has hampered bridging the “last mile” to safe water access for all in developing countries. The use of decentralised solar-based water treatment systems, such as solar pasteurization and solar disinfection, offers a unique opportunity to treat alternative water sources and provide access to safe water in low- and middle-income countries. These solar-based interventions have been shown to be cost-effective, environmentally friendly, scalable, and culturally acceptable. This review will focus on advances in solar-based water treatment systems and the innovative ways these systems can safely be used, in combination with traditional water treatment methods, in developing countries.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37308,"journal":{"name":"Water Security","volume":"20 ","pages":"Article 100146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138448956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Water SecurityPub Date : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100144
Benjamin Fincher, Wendy Jepson, John P. Casellas Connors
{"title":"Water insecurity tradeoffs: U.S. drinking water systems during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Benjamin Fincher, Wendy Jepson, John P. Casellas Connors","doi":"10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100144","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Public health, economic, and social disruptions caused by the pandemic extended to essential public services, including water supply. This paper examines how the pandemic caused a water security crisis for many communities, and in so doing, our analysis contributes to current debates on water system resilience and continued challenges of water affordability in the United States. Water utilities faced major shifts in industrial and domestic water demand, financial burdens of increased non-payments, and operational challenges due to a reduced workforce and supply chain bottlenecks. Areas of concern include customer protection, financial security, public communication, new technology adoption, and trust. Evidence indicates that the pandemic water crisis spurred institutional and technological innovation to increase resilience for the next shock while overall financial challenges in the post-pandemic years remain. The pandemic water crisis also revealed a stark tradeoff between household water security and water utility security, indicating that without systemic changes to policy and practice related to water affordability, the most vulnerable in the United States will continue to suffer in future crises.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37308,"journal":{"name":"Water Security","volume":"20 ","pages":"Article 100144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138467818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Water SecurityPub Date : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100142
Kevin J. Erratt , Irena F. Creed , Erika C. Freeman , Charles G. Trick
{"title":"Missing the middle: Deep cyanobacteria layers pose a “known unknown” risk to water security","authors":"Kevin J. Erratt , Irena F. Creed , Erika C. Freeman , Charles G. Trick","doi":"10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100142","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100142","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Deep cyanobacteria layers are an emerging concern in harmful algal bloom research, posing a “known unknown” risk to human health. A known unknown risk is one of which society is aware but cannot accurately assess the potential impacts due to insufficient research. Deep cyanobacteria layers develop below the surface. At this depth, the presence of cyanobacteria is not casually recognized and therefore seldom evokes public health concerns or advisories. However, the potential risk of deep cyanobacteria layers to public health places heightened importance on learning more about depth-differentiation among phytoplankton. We identify four scientific gaps about deep cyanobacteria layers. Advancing our understanding by filling these scientific gaps is crucial to reducing the risks associated with deep cyanobacteria layers to human health and safeguarding water security.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37308,"journal":{"name":"Water Security","volume":"20 ","pages":"Article 100142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42072024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Water SecurityPub Date : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2023-10-20DOI: 10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100143
Sarah Dickin , Sara Gabrielsson
{"title":"Inequalities in water, sanitation and hygiene: Challenges and opportunities for measurement and monitoring","authors":"Sarah Dickin , Sara Gabrielsson","doi":"10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100143","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While there is significant awareness of the importance of addressing water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) inequalities, measurement continues to present a challenge. Addressing how inequalities are measured, tracked and communicated is fundamental to accelerating progress in ensuring universal WASH coverage and associated benefits. We review how WASH inequalities have been measured and monitored to date on a global level, particularly in relation to SDG 6. We describe gaps in several areas, including how inequalities are measured in relation to gender and social differences, and limitations due to a focus on measuring access to infrastructure that overlooks other contributions of WASH services to wellbeing. Approaches for improved measurement and monitoring of inequalities are discussed, including making better use of existing datasets, as well as developing a broader range of indicators for the WASH sector. Finally, we emphasize the importance of improving visualization and communication of inequalities to policy audiences.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37308,"journal":{"name":"Water Security","volume":"20 ","pages":"Article 100143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49715291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Water SecurityPub Date : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2023-12-05DOI: 10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100152
Mark A. Elliott , Amal Bakchan , Jillian Maxcy-Brown , Victor A. D'Amato , Dennis Hallahan , Kevin D. White , Cara Stallman , Sherry Bradley
{"title":"Sustainable wastewater management for underserved communities using federal infrastructure funds: Barriers, bottlenecks, and tradeoffs","authors":"Mark A. Elliott , Amal Bakchan , Jillian Maxcy-Brown , Victor A. D'Amato , Dennis Hallahan , Kevin D. White , Cara Stallman , Sherry Bradley","doi":"10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100152","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Despite increases in federal infrastructure funding that could provide adequate wastewater management for thousands of U.S. communities, the pace of progress in small, underserved communities has been disappointing. This article addresses the major system typologies that can be implemented and the obstacles that are preventing many such communities from receiving funding and implementing systems. While preference for disadvantaged communities is incorporated into federal funding opportunities and many stakeholders prioritize the neediest communities, the embedded perverse incentives and asymmetric information present substantive obstacles to these goals. Small communities and other stakeholders have often found their efforts frustrated by a system that was designed for larger municipalities (or higher-income communities) with greater internal capacity and which is highly dependent on engineering firms, most of which prefer large projects with conventional technological approaches. Novel approaches that show promise in enabling sustainable wastewater management in low-population density, underserved communities are those that leverage existing infrastructure (e.g., gravity sewer, high-speed internet) with recent innovations in infrastructure and management (e.g., liquid-only sewer, centralized management of decentralized infrastructure) and/or incorporate creative approaches to funding and technical assistance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37308,"journal":{"name":"Water Security","volume":"20 ","pages":"Article 100152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468312423000202/pdfft?md5=22a7dfff40773ec309554f38f5ceaba4&pid=1-s2.0-S2468312423000202-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138489630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A review of water reuse applications and effluent standards in response to water scarcity","authors":"Drew Rich , Esber Andiroglu , Kathryn Gallo , Sivakumar Ramanathan","doi":"10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100154","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In recent decades, population growth and various environmental hazards induced by climate change impacts have highlighted economic and public health stresses which brought water scarcity to front lines at a global scale. Over two billion people live in countries that are experiencing water scarcity, while double that number live in countries that experience water scarcity at least one month a year [5]. Lack of clean water can lead to severe impacts both in terms of health and well-being and reduced economic growth [4,5]. The challenges associated with water scarcity are only projected to be exacerbated by various complex factors causing unsustainable management and withdrawals of key water sources in the decades ahead. Water scarcity can be addressed through two approaches, defined as improved water efficiency practices and the introduction of different water streams that could replace traditionally sourced potable water. While regulations have been implemented to make water use practices more efficient, water use efficiency alone has not been enough to overcome the increasing water demand. With recent advancements and technologies in treatment and monitoring water reuse has been thrust back into the spotlight as a viable option to help create a more sustainable water supply. Globally water reuse is in varying stages of implementation based on geographic, cultural, legislative, and economic factors. Levels of use range from advanced, with some countries receiving a majority of their water from recycled sources, to non-existent. This paper will focus on the legislative framework that exists in the United States today for municipal water reuse.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37308,"journal":{"name":"Water Security","volume":"20 ","pages":"Article 100154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138447928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}