Keng Yuen Foo – författare

This book unveils the ground-breaking technological advancements in natural environmental protection and pollution treatment, encompassing research spanning from the natural environment preservation, water pollution control, risk assessment, policies, nexus approach, and their related areas. According to the October 2023 report by the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 10% of the global population continues to consume food irrigated by wastewater. Alarmingly, nearly 3.47 billion people reside in environments affected by untreated wastewater, leading to severe human health risks and life-threatening conditions. Water resource management remains a critical concern in the realm of environmental safety, garnering substantial attention from different regions of the world.To address the global concern, smart water resilience framework appears to be most relevant approach, as it addresses emergent issues related to optimization, treatment, and reuse of all available water sources in a timely and achievable manner while creating opportunities for commercial advantage paving the way for long-term sustainability. This realignment can be achieved by reassessing the current products and services; improving water use efficiency by pursuing the possibilities for water recycling or reuse within industrial processes and domestic activities; establishing sustainable environmental management systems related to natural water courses, or built environment for environmental preservation and public health improvement; improving the existing governance policies related to wastewater treatment, management strategies, and smart partnerships; and implementing better resource allocation and management.This book seeks to offer valuable insights and share successful experiences among scholars, engineers, and environmental professionals from the world's leading universities, research centers, and governmental and industrial departments engaged in environmental management, catering especially to regions and countries grappling with ongoing wastewater pollution issues.

This book unveils the ground-breaking technological advancements in natural environmental protection and pollution treatment, encompassing research spanning from the natural environment preservation, water pollution control, risk assessment, policies, nexus approach, and their related areas. According to the October 2023 report by the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 10% of the global population continues to consume food irrigated by wastewater. Alarmingly, nearly 3.47 billion people reside in environments affected by untreated wastewater, leading to severe human health risks and life-threatening conditions. Water resource management remains a critical concern in the realm of environmental safety, garnering substantial attention from different regions of the world.To address the global concern, smart water resilience framework appears to be most relevant approach, as it addresses emergent issues related to optimization, treatment, and reuse of all available water sources in a timely and achievable manner while creating opportunities for commercial advantage paving the way for long-term sustainability. This realignment can be achieved by reassessing the current products and services; improving water use efficiency by pursuing the possibilities for water recycling or reuse within industrial processes and domestic activities; establishing sustainable environmental management systems related to natural water courses, or built environment for environmental preservation and public health improvement; improving the existing governance policies related to wastewater treatment, management strategies, and smart partnerships; and implementing better resource allocation and management.This book seeks to offer valuable insights and share successful experiences among scholars, engineers, and environmental professionals from the world's leading universities, research centers, and governmental and industrial departments engaged in environmental management, catering especially to regions and countries grappling with ongoing wastewater pollution issues.

This book explores sustainable waste management innovations. In resource recovery technologies, it highlights catalytic conversion of solid wastes like biomass and plastics into valuable chemicals, wastewater extraction methods such as acid-leaching for pollutant removal, and reclamation of hazardous residues including fly ash for environmental applications. It addresses toxicity identification and remediation, covering assessments of disinfection by-products and PAHs in soils, pollution source tracking using sensor-GC-MS coupling, and advanced solutions like AI-optimized leachate treatment to mitigate microplastic release. Finally, it applies ecological principles to eco-engineering approaches—such as diatomite-enhanced anaerobic digestion and integrated energy-fertilizer systems—while evaluating urban risks like microplastic-heavy metal interactions in rivers, airborne metal impacts on vegetation, and antibiotic resistance genes in soils for holistic ecosystem restoration.