| Reused water for potable purposes as a coping strategy for prolonged droughts |
| University of Glasgow |
| Tortajada |
| Cecilia |
| Professor |
| cecilia.tortajada@glasgow.ac.uk |
| School of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Glasgow |
| United Kingdom (Britain / UK) |
| 07949505325 |
| https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/interdisciplinary/staff/ceciliatortajada/ |
| https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6308-4924 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AByDTj8AAAAJ&hl=en |
| Potable reuse, coping strategies, droughts, water scarcity, climate change |
| I have studied potable and non-potable reuse as well as impacts of droughts. Following are some of my publications:
• van Rensburg, P., and Tortajada, C. (2021). An assessment of the 2015-2017 drought in Windhoek. Frontiers in Climate 3, 602962. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2021.602962
• Tortajada, C. (2020). Contributions of recycled wastewater to clean water and sanitation Sustainable Development Goals. npj Clean Water 3(22). DOI: 10.1038/s41545-020-0069-3
• Tortajada, C., and van Rensburg, P. (2020). Drink More Recycled Wastewater. Nature 577, 26–28. DOI: 10.1038/d41586-019-03913-6
• Kumar, M.D., and Tortajada, C. (2020). Assessing Wastewater Management in India. Singapore: Springer.
• Hartley, K., Tortajada, C., and Biswas, A. K. (2019). A Formal Model Concerning Policy Strategies to Build Public Acceptance of Potable Water Reuse. Journal of Environmental Management 250, 109505. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109505
• Tortajada, C., and Nambiar, S. (2019). Communications on Technological Innovations: Potable Water Reuse. Water 11(2), 251. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11020251. |
| I would like to join a project on potable reuse or on wastewater.
Water resources are essential for every development activity, not only in terms of available quantity but also in terms of quality. Economic and population growth as well as urbanisation are increasing the number of users and uses of water, making water resources scarcer and more polluted. Water scarcity, due to physical lack or pollution, has become one of the most pressing issues globally, a matter of human, economic and environmental insecurity, and extended droughts threaten to worsen these effects in many areas.
Wastewater, whose value had not been appreciated until recently, is increasingly recognised as a potential ‘new’ source of clean water for potable and non-potable uses, resulting in social, environmental and economic benefits. The project will focus on the potential of recycled wastewater (also known as reused water) to become a significant source of safe water for drinking purposes and improved sanitation in support of the Sustainable Development Goals. It will also consider human and environmental health, and the views of the public.
Potable reuse is about to become part of national policies in the United States and it has been used, both directly and indirectly, in cities in U.S.; Perth, Australia; Windhoek, Namibia; Beaufort West, South Africa; Singapore; Wulpen, Belgium; Essex, UK. The potential for Europe is enormous and should be studied as a coping strategy. |
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