IWW, TZW, University of Copenhagen, and Örebro University have been selected by the European Commission (EC or Commission) to perform services to develop and draft technical guidelines on PFAS under the recast Drinking Water Directive (DWD). This final report covers a short summary of the...

The Drinking Water Directive (DWD) concerns the quality of water intended for human consumption. It aims to protect human health through setting quality standards for drinking water to keep it clean and safe. Standards are set for microbiological, chemical and indicator parameters for drinking...

The Drinking Water Directive (DWD) concerns the quality of water intended for human consumption. It aims to protect human health through setting quality standards for drinking water to keep it clean and safe. Standards are set for microbiological, chemical and indicator parameters for drinking...

The recast Drinking Water Directive (EU) 2020/2184 empowers the European Commission (EC) to adopt a methodology to measure microplastics in water intended for human consumption. When the directive entered into force in January 2021, no suitable standardised or harmonised methodologies were...

Freshwater resources are vital for environmental health and human societies. Understanding their current status and future trends is critical for developing sustainable solutions. This study examines water quantity and quality on global and regional scales, with a specific focus on Germany. To...

This paper investigates strategies to expand piped water and sewer through private providers. Using billing data from a major provider in Brazil and a structural model of consumer sanitation demand and service expansion, we assess the viability of connection targets and the welfare effects of...

The Drinking Water Directive (DWD) concerns the quality of water intended for human consumption. It aims to protect human health through setting quality standards for drinking water to keep it clean and safe. Standards are set for microbiological, chemical and indicator parameters for drinking...

The purpose of this manual is to assist in the preparation of Drinking Water Directive notification of intention dossiers using IUCLID. The manual provides you with detailed and practical instructions on how to generate a substance dataset and outlines the IUCLID sections to be filled in and to...

Despite the global resolve to ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation, several people across the world still have very limited or no access to basic drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services. Therefore, this study primarily examined the effect of...

This article's main objective is to present an overview of the financing of public basic sanitation services in Brazil. We emphasize incentivized debenture-type bond issues as a complement to traditional credit mechanisms for the sector, based on the database of debentures issued in Brazil,...

This article's main objective is to present an overview of the financing of public basic sanitation services in Brazil. We emphasize incentivized debenture-type bond issues as a complement to traditional credit mechanisms for the sector, based on the database of debentures issued in Brazil,...

Despite the global resolve to ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation, several people across the world still have very limited or no access to basic drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services. Therefore, this study primarily examined the effect of...

The objective of this research is to capture householders' views and experiences related to drinking water and domestic wastewater treatment systems (DWWTS), including public health concerns and experience accessing the septic tank remediation grant. Capturing data on the level of maintenance...

Based on the results of our research, we have developed a reliable and valid scale for assessing the innovation success of sustainable development practices, with a specific focus on reducing drinking water consumption in the production sector, where so-called industrial water is used (for...

Point-of-use (POU) drinking water treatment plays a crucial role in overcoming the health burden associated with waterborne diarrheal disease in low and middle-income regions. This study focuses on the long run impacts of three POU water treatments –boiling on a cook stove, ceramic filtration,...

Previous research in the US has found negative health effects of contamination when it triggers regulatory violations. An important question is whether levels of contamination that do not trigger a health-based violation impact health. We study the impact of drinking water contamination in...

Biofilms, which account for more than 95% of the total biomass in drinking water distribution system, constitute an ecosystem that can influence the 'aesthetic' quality of water, altering taste, color or smell, and also the microbiological quality of water. In this work, the study of the...

Based on the results of our research, we have developed a reliable and valid scale for assessing the innovation success of sustainable development practices, with a specific focus on reducing drinking water consumption in the production sector, where so-called industrial water is used (for...

Drinking water source area is a weak link in water resources management, but pollution accidents occur from time to time. Most of the prediction models currently developed are not suitable for drinking water source area, so a new model has been established. This model coupled the GIS Platform...

Drinking water quality is integral to the Sustainable Development Goals framework. At the present, China's drinking water conservation faces a number of challenges that are partially brought on by strict conservation measures that don't fully take into account human-land conflict and inclusive...

There are restricted studies of non-single-value health exposure models regarding fluoride intake in Iran. As such, we adopted a probability-based approach for higher accuracy along with sensitivity analysis to reduce the ambiguity of the health risk model of Fars and Bushehr Provinces. Fluoride...

While the Xiangjiang (XJ) River acts as an inland drinking water source, it may experience microplastics emissions originating from Changsha (CS) City. The aim of this study was to characterize the occurrence and distribution of microplastics in the XJ River during both the flooding and dry...

Do environmental conditions pose greater health risks to individuals living in urban or rural areas? The answer is theoretically ambiguous: while urban areas have traditionally been associated with heightened exposure to environmental pollutants, the economies of scale and density inherent to...

Millions of villagers in Bangladesh are exposed to arsenic by drinking contaminated water from private wells. Testing for arsenic can encourage switching from unsafe wells to safer sources. This study describes results from a cluster randomized controlled trial conducted in 112 villages in...

Over 2 billion people lack clean drinking water. Existing solutions face high costs (piped water) or low demand (point-of-use chlorine). Using a 60,000 household cluster-randomized experiment we test an increasingly popular alternative: decentralized treatment and home delivery of clean water to...