Science and technology for water purification in the coming decades

The special issue of Nature on water published to coincide with World Water Day 2008, includes a review of “some of the science and technology being developed to improve the disinfection and decontamination of water, as well as efforts to increase water supplies through the safe re-use of wastewater (e.g. with membrane bioreactors) and efficient desalination of sea and brackish water”. It looks at solutions being developed in the industrialised world, which also have potential for developing countries “where less chemical- and energy-intensive technologies are greatly needed”.

Shannon. M.A. … [et al.] (2008). Science and technology for water purification in the coming decades. Nature ; no. 452 ; p. 301-310. doi: 10.1038/nature06599