scholarly journals High concentrations of pharmaceuticals emerging as a threat to Himalayan water sustainability

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan J. Quincey ◽  
Paul Kay ◽  
John Wilkinson ◽  
Laura J. Carter ◽  
Lee E. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Environmental Stress ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Sustainable Cities ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Water Quality Improvement ◽  
Sampling Campaign ◽  
Human Use ◽  
High Concentrations

Abstract The sixth UN Sustainable Development Goal, Clean Water and Sanitation, directly underpins other goals of Health, Life in Water and Sustainable Cities. We highlight that poor sanitation, exemplified through some of the highest concentrations of pharmaceuticals ever detected in rivers, will amplify societal and environmental stress where climate-induced reductions in flow are predicted. Rapidly growing urban centres with inadequate water treatment works will need to prioritise water quality improvement before supply reductions become a reality. For 23 river locations within Kathmandu City and the Annapurna region, Nepal, we show the presence of 28 of 35 monitored human-use pharmaceuticals. Concentrations of antibiotics measured in this sampling campaign in both Kathmandu City (sulfamethazine, metronidazole and ciprofloxacin) and rural locations (ciprofloxacin) are in excess of predicted no effect concentrations, suggesting these sites are at risk of proliferating antimicrobial resistance as well as affecting other ecotoxicological endpoints. It is anticipated that climate-induced reductions in flow combined with contaminated river systems will amplify future societal and environmental stress.

scholarly journals SOUTH AFRICA’S INTEGRATED URBAN DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL 11: POLICY MISMATCH OR SUCCESS?

Obiter ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela van der Berg
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
South African ◽  
Sustainable Cities ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
South African Cities

This paper critically questions the extent to which the Integrated Urban Development Framework, 2016 (IUDF) provides for strategic goals and policy levers towards the pursuit of sustainable cities in South Africa as understood in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11. Specific emphasis will be placed on the nine identified policy levers in the IUDF and whether these correspond with what is identified in SDG 11 as essential for the pursuit and maintenance of sustainable cities. SDG 11 has been heralded as “path-breaking” as it represents the strongest recognition to date of the significant role of cities in promoting sustainability on local, national, and global scales. The goal forms part of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted in 2015. SDG 11 specifically seeks to ensure that cities and human settlements become inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. The goal provides a broad framework for what the achievement of sustainable cities entails and lists specific targets to be met by 2030 to ensure urban sustainability around the globe. The South African government recently developed its first policy underscoring the country’s national urban agenda. Informed by SDG 11, the IUDF calls for the effective and improved management of urban spaces and recognises the need for South African cities to become “liveable, safe, resource-efficient cities that are socially integrated, economically inclusive and globally competitive”.

Achieving Sustainable Development Goal for Clean Water in India: Influence of Natural and Anthropogenic Factors on Groundwater Microbial Pollution

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
pp. 742-755 ◽  
Author(s):  
Srimanti Duttagupta ◽  
Abhijit Mukherjee ◽  
Soumendra Nath Bhanja ◽  
Siddhartha Chattopadhyay ◽  
Soumyajit Sarkar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Anthropogenic Factors ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Microbial Pollution ◽  
Natural And Anthropogenic Factors

scholarly journals A Review of the Federal Clean Water Act and the Maryland Water Quality Improvement Act: The Rationale For Developing a Water And Nutrient Management Planning Process For Container Nursery And Greenhouse Operations

2001 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 226-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
John D. Lea-Cox ◽  
David S. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Nutrient Management ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Clean Water Act ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
State Laws ◽  
Water Quality Improvement

Abstract Newly enforced provisions of the Federal Clean Water Act of 1972 and new state laws like the Maryland Water Quality Improvement Act of 1998 are forcing agriculture to develop effective procedures to show that they are not polluting our nation's water resources. Formulating a water and nutrient management process for nursery and greenhouse operations that takes both water and nutrient applications into account is very important. Many operations already have implemented improved management practices to conserve water and nutrients. For those operations that do not have these procedures in place, it will be necessary to find cost-effective ways to ensure that these operations can comply with laws, and document that they can effectively reduce the risk of nutrient movement from their operations to a minimum.

scholarly journals How Covid-19 influences the 2030 Agenda: do the practices of achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 11 need rethinking and adjustment?

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 11-23
Author(s):  
Francesca Abastante ◽  
Isabella Lami ◽  
Beatrice Mecca
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Cities ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Human Settlements ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Scientific Debate ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Our cities represent the crucial nodes of intervention to improve living conditions and promote sustainability.Therefore, the current pandemic, combined with the climate emergency, translates into an urban emergency.In light of the devastating effects of Covid-19 and the rethinking of the concept of sustainability, the goal of developing inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities and human settlements pursued by theSustainable Development Goal 11 may now require re vision in terms of the indicators used for its monitoring. Indicators are crucial since they help to make sustainable development visible and transparent, enable comparison, build and harmonize databases and provide information relevant to decision-making processes and urban and territorial policies by facilitating communication across arenas. The aim of this paper is to provide a picture of the indicators currently used to monitor SDG11, to present a series of critical reviews of them in light of the Covid-19emergency, and to suggest the introduction of some new indicators, thus opening a scientific debate on the topic.

It’s more than climate change and active transport—physical activity’s role in sustainable behavior

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carina Nigg ◽  
Claudio R Nigg
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Sustainable Cities ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Planetary Health ◽  
Health Concept ◽  
Sustainable Behavior

Abstract Considering the interdependence of human’s and nature’s health within the planetary health concept, we evaluated how physical activity (PA) can be conceptualized as sustainable behavior (SuB) and how PA relates to other types of SuBs within the United Nations’ sustainable development goal (SDG) framework. Regarding social SDGs, PA contributes to improving malnutrition (SDG 2), health behaviors (SDG 3), education (SDG 4), reducing inequalities (SDG 10), sustainable cities (SDG 12), and peace (SDG 16). For ecological SDGs, PA contributes to sustainable consumption (SDG 11) and combating climate change (SDG 13). Therefore, PA is more than a health behavior, it contributes to planetary health and sustainable development. However, caution is warranted as PA also has the potential to contribute and reinforce unsustainability. Thus, PA as a SuB requires an own research agenda, investigating (a) PA as social and ecological SuB, (b) sustainable PA promotion, (c) sustainable PA measurement, (d) common underlying constructs of PA and SuB, and (e) technology’s role to assess and promote PA and SuB.

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