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Water is necessary to produce energy, and energy is required to pump, treat, and transport water. The energy–water nexus examines the interactions between these two inextricably linked elements. This Special Issue aims to explore a single "system of systems" for the integration of energy systems. This approach considers the relationships between electricity, thermal, and fuel systems; and data and information networks in order to ensure optimal integration and interoperability across the entire spectrum of the energy system. This framework for the integration of energy systems can be adapted to evaluate the interactions between energy and water. This Special Issue focuses on the analysis of water interactions with and dependencies on the dynamics of the electricity sector and the transport sector

History of engineering & technology --- waste heat recovery --- absorption cooling --- water–energy nexus --- steelworks --- TRNSYS --- non-equilibrium molecular dynamics --- deformed carbon nanotubes --- deformed boron nitride nanotubes --- water transport --- diffusion --- Z-distortion --- XY-distortion --- screw distortion --- oil/water separation --- superhydrophilic/underwater-superoleophobic membranes --- opposite properties --- superhydrophobicity/superoleophilicity --- selective wettability --- micro/nanoscale composite structure --- virtual water network --- inter-provincial electricity transmission --- structural decomposition analysis --- electricity-water nexus --- cooling tower --- response surface model --- water --- power plant --- decarbonization --- energy concepts --- long-term energy storage --- power-to-gas --- power-to-X --- wastewater treatment --- anaerobic digestion --- water-energy nexus --- demand response --- energy consumption optimization --- multi-objective model --- urban water system --- local water supply --- electricity demand --- index decomposition analysis

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This book presents the paper form of the Special Issue (SI) on Smart Urban Water Networks. The number and topics of the papers in the SI confirm the growing interest of operators and researchers for the new paradigm of smart networks, as part of the more general smart city. The SI showed that digital information and communication technology (ICT), with the implementation of smart meters and other digital devices, can significantly improve the modelling and the management of urban water networks, contributing to a radical transformation of the traditional paradigm of water utilities. The paper collection in this SI includes different crucial topics such as the reliability, resilience, and performance of water networks, innovative demand management, and the novel challenge of real-time control and operation, along with their implications for cyber-security. The SI collected fourteen papers that provide a wide perspective of solutions, trends, and challenges in the contest of smart urban water networks. Some solutions have already been implemented in pilot sites (i.e., for water network partitioning, cyber-security, and water demand disaggregation and forecasting), while further investigations are required for other methods, e.g., the data-driven approaches for real time control. In all cases, a new deal between academia, industry, and governments must be embraced to start the new era of smart urban water systems.

Technology: general issues --- hydraulic modelling --- pressure control valve --- pressure management --- remote real-time control --- stochastic consumption --- water distribution system --- fault identification --- hydraulic transient --- inverse transient analysis (ITA) --- water distribution network --- optimization approach --- water distribution monitoring --- optimal sensor placement --- water network partitioning --- topological centrality --- smart water system --- framework --- smartness --- cyber wellness --- leakage --- sensitivity --- uncertainty --- entropy --- multi-criteria decision-making --- DEMATEL --- clustering --- district metered area --- network sectorization --- smart city --- water quality monitoring --- Internet of Things --- wireless sensor networks --- water treatment plant --- data analytics --- nitrate --- nitrite --- water demand forecasting --- hybrid model --- error correction --- chaotic time series --- least square support vector machine --- cross-correlation --- data spatial aggregation --- finite population effect --- metering --- sample mean --- sampling design --- standard error --- stochastic analysis --- water demand peak factor --- water distribution networks --- comparative analysis --- hydraulic measure --- multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) --- reliability index --- water distribution network (WDN) --- smart stormwater --- machine learning --- cluster analysis --- data science --- flooding detection --- rainwater harvesting --- water trading --- dual reticulation --- decentralized water supply --- agent-based modeling --- urban water management --- urban water consumption --- water demand data --- water data accessibility --- data resolution --- smart meter --- smart water systems --- cyber–physical security --- cyber-security --- cyber–physical attacks --- n/a --- water distribution systems --- cyber-attack detection --- blind sources separation --- FastICA --- cyber-physical security --- cyber-physical attacks

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The quality of drinking water is paramount for public health. Despite important improvements in the last decades, access to safe drinking water is not universal. The World Health Organization estimates that almost 10% of the population in the world do not have access to improved drinking water sources. Among other diseases, waterborne infections cause diarrhea, which kills nearly one million people every year, mostly children under 5 years of age. On the other hand, chemical pollution is a concern in high-income countries and an increasing problem in low- and middle-income countries. Exposure to chemicals in drinking water may lead to a range of chronic non-communicable diseases (e.g., cancer, cardiovascular disease), adverse reproductive outcomes, and effects on children’s health (e.g., neurodevelopment), among other health effects. Although drinking water quality is regulated and monitored in many countries, increasing knowledge leads to the need for reviewing standards and guidelines on a nearly permanent basis, both for regulated and newly identified contaminants. Drinking water standards are mostly based on animal toxicity data, and more robust epidemiologic studies with accurate exposure assessment are needed. The current risk assessment paradigm dealing mostly with one-by-one chemicals dismisses the potential synergisms or interactions from exposures to mixtures of contaminants, particularly at the low-exposure range. Thus, evidence is needed on exposure and health effects of mixtures of contaminants in drinking water. Finally, water stress and water quality problems are expected to increase in the coming years due to climate change and increasing water demand by population growth, and new evidence is needed to design appropriate adaptation policies.This Special Issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focuses on the current state of knowledge on the links between drinking water quality and human health.

risk assessment --- time series study --- risk context --- ammonia --- fluoride --- exposure assessment --- water safety plan --- HWTS implementation --- human health --- simulation study --- drinking water guidance --- chlorination by-product --- adverse reproductive outcomes --- spatial variations --- THMs --- zinc --- radioactivity --- thyroid disease --- risk management --- infants --- water contamination --- infant health --- small for gestational age --- drinking water quality --- methemoglobinemia --- magnesium --- monitoring --- effect measure modification --- nitrite --- health-based guideline --- environmental exposure --- organic matter --- Maryland --- tap water --- impact assessment --- turbidity --- chronic kidney disease --- fever --- diarrhoeal disease --- rural water resources --- drinking water --- acute gastroenteritis --- Nigeria --- E. coli --- pharmacokinetic modeling --- chemical risk assessment --- uncertainty factors --- community water system --- groundwater --- dental health --- inorganic manganese --- atrazine --- duration extrapolation --- health insurance data --- space–time detection --- seasonality --- fecal coliforms --- water safety plans --- preterm birth --- dissolved oxygen --- gravity-fed piped water scheme --- urban area --- cough --- water operation data --- screening method --- endogenous nitrosation --- infant exposure --- sanitary inspection --- waterborne disease outbreak --- N-nitroso compounds --- end-stage renal disease --- arsenic --- diarrhea --- sodium --- private wells --- animal feeding operation --- endocrine disruptor --- Vibrio pathogens --- LTD --- disinfection by-product --- chemical oxygen demand --- potassium --- biomonitoring --- nitrate --- annual effective dose --- sub-Saharan Africa --- France --- carcinogenic --- public health --- enterococci --- calcium --- water and sanitation --- pharmaceuticals --- environment --- drinking water distribution systems --- water contaminants --- Asia-Pacific region --- Denmark --- trihalomethanes --- risk --- cancer --- low birth weight --- drug labels

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In recent years, various families of fractional-order integral and derivative operators, such as those named after Riemann-Liouville, Weyl, Hadamard, Grunwald-Letnikov, Riesz, Erdelyi-Kober, Liouville-Caputo, and so on, have been found to be remarkably important and fruitful, due mainly to their demonstrated applications in numerous seemingly diverse and widespread areas of the mathematical, physical, chemical, engineering, and statistical sciences. Many of these fractional-order operators provide interesting, potentially useful tools for solving ordinary and partial differential equations, as well as integral, differintegral, and integro-differential equations; fractional-calculus analogues and extensions of each of these equations; and various other problems involving special functions of mathematical physics and applied mathematics, as well as their extensions and generalizations in one or more variables. For this Special Issue, we invite and welcome review, expository, and original research articles dealing with the recent advances in the theory of fractional-order integral and derivative operators and their multidisciplinary applications.

Research & information: general --- Mathematics & science --- Legendre wavelet --- operational matrix --- systems of fractional order differential equations --- Liouville_Caputo sense --- analytic functions --- starlike functions --- univalent functions --- length problems --- SIR model --- Hermite collocation method --- approximate solution --- Hermite polynomials and series --- collocation points --- starlike and q-starlike functions --- q-derivative operator --- q-hypergeometric functions --- conic and generalized conic domains --- Hankel determinant --- Toeplitz matrices --- fractional differential equations --- Riemann-stieltjes integral --- monotone iterative method --- upper and lower solutions --- fractional diffusion equation --- controllability --- impulsive system --- unique continuation property --- non-linear fractional variational problems --- orthogonal polynomials --- Rayleigh-Ritz method --- error analysis --- convergence analysis --- Banach space --- Sobolev space --- Laplace operators --- nonlocal boundary conditions --- fractional differential systems --- mixed Riemann–Liouville integral --- mixed Hadamard integral --- Hilfer derivative --- Hadamard derivative --- coupled system --- random solution --- variable order fractional derivative --- initial value problem --- piecewise constant functions --- starlike function --- Toeplitz determinant --- sine function --- upper bound --- convex functions --- subordination --- logarithmic coefficients --- Gauss hypergeometric function --- confluent hypergeometric function --- Appell’s functions --- incomplete fractional calculus --- Riemann-Liouville fractional integral --- generating functions --- fractional integrals --- fractional derivatives --- Mittag–Leffler functions --- field spectrum --- fractional calculus --- desert soil --- available potassium --- correlation analysis --- Post-Exposure Prophylaxis --- latent reservoir --- HIV infection --- fractional order model --- multivalent functions --- close-to-convex functions --- uniformly starlike functions --- uniformly close-to-convex functions --- conic domains --- q-calculus --- differential subordination --- Janowski function --- cardioid domain --- limacon domain --- fractional order unknown input fuzzy observer --- fractional order Takagi–Sugeno models --- L2 optimization --- linear matrix inequalities --- unmeasurable premise variables --- global solutions --- fractional in time and space shallow-water system --- ψ-Caputo fractional derivative --- Hilfer fractional derivative --- Ulam stability --- pantograph differential equation --- nonlocal integral condition --- Miura transform --- soliton equations --- logarithm --- n/a --- mixed Riemann-Liouville integral --- Appell's functions --- Mittag-Leffler functions --- fractional order Takagi-Sugeno models