The number of climate-related disasters has progressively increased in the last two decades and this trend will drastically exacerbate in the medium- and long-term horizons according to climate change projections. In this ...

The control of pharmaceutical compounds (PhCs) in urban wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is an issue of health and environmental relevance, expected to become mandatory in the European Union and beyond, but studies at ...

A global framework to assess the energy use and efficiency in wastewater systems is presented, focusing on the development of a portfolio of energy use improvement measures specifically tailored to these systems. The ...

Os sistemas de distribuição de água são infraestruturas fundamentais para garantir o acesso a agua potável em quantidade suficiente, com pressão adequada e de boa qualidade a todos os consumidores. A operação destes sistemas, ...

Os sistemas urbanos de água são compostos por diversos ativos com diferentes funções, vidas úteis, custos no ciclo de vida, idades e estados de conservação (Alegre e Coelho, 2012), sendo um dos principais desafios para as ...

À semelhança de outras infraestruturas, os sistemas de distribuição prediais de Água tiveram, em Portugal e no seculo XX, maior enfoque na construção e ampliação, e menor na avaliação da condição infraestrutural para apoio ...

Water scarcity and the increasing contamination of water resources are driving the use of alternative sources, such as the use of treated effluents. This study aims to demonstrate the combination of ozonation and reverse ...

Water treatment improvement is mandatory to face current water quality challenges, being a focus of EU societal challenges. While the presence of micropollutants in natural waters, e.g. pharmaceutical compounds (PhCs) that ...

Advanced technologies have the potential to ensure safe and sustainable water supply, a major global challenge of the near future. TiO2-containing photocatalyst, wich combine TiO2 with carbon-based materials, are promising ...

Urban drainage systems are one of the essential infrastructures in our societies. These network systems are capital intensive infrastructures, mostly buried, and crucial to ensure the health and safety of populations, ...