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The sustainable governance of water resources relies on processes of multi-stakeholder collaborations and interactions that facilitate knowledge co-creation and social learning. Governance systems are often fragmented, forming a barrier to adequately addressing the myriad of challenges affecting water resources, including climate change, increased urbanized populations, and pollution. Transitions towards sustainable water governance will likely require innovative learning partnerships between public, private, and civil society stakeholders. It is essential that such partnerships involve vertical and horizontal communication of ideas and knowledge, and an enabling and democratic environment characterized by informal and open discourse. There is increasing interest in learning-based transitions. Thus far, much scholarly thinking and, to a lesser degree, empirical research has gone into understanding the potential impact of social learning on multi-stakeholder settings. The question of whether such learning can be supported by forms of serious gaming has hardly been asked. This Special Issue critically explores the potential of serious games to support multi-stakeholder social learning and collaborations in the context of water governance. Serious games may involve simulations of real-world events and processes and are challenge players to solve contemporary societal problems; they, therefore, have a purpose beyond entertainment. They offer a largely untapped potential to support social learning and collaboration by facilitating access to and the exchange of knowledge and information, enhancing stakeholder interactions, empowering a wider audience to participate in decision making, and providing opportunities to test and analyze the outcomes of policies and management solutions. Little is known about how game-based approaches can be used in the context of collaborative water governance to maximize their potential for social learning. While several studies have reported examples of serious games, there is comparably less research about how to assess the impacts of serious games on social learning and transformative change.

psychosocial perspectives --- integrated water resources management --- maritime spatial planning --- decision-making processes --- simulation --- rural --- water-food-land-energy-climate --- Good Environmental Status --- assessment --- active learning --- ecology education --- social simulation --- educational videogames --- gaming-simulation --- serious games --- transformative change --- Q-method --- serious games (SGs) --- social equity --- learning-based intervention --- sustainability --- water --- flood --- institutions --- planning support systems --- system dynamics --- Blue Growth --- stakeholder participation --- serious game --- decision making --- social learning --- serious gaming --- nexus --- Water Safety Plan --- game-based learning --- stakeholders --- mangrove --- participatory modelling --- integrated water resource management (IWRM) --- experimental social research --- river basin management --- online games --- drinking water management --- drinking water --- multi-party collaboration --- water management --- Schwartz’s Value Survey (SVS) --- water supply --- groundwater --- role-play --- simulations --- stakeholder collaboration --- relational practices --- Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) --- gamification --- aquaculture --- transcendental values --- peri-urban --- urban --- Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) --- infrastructure --- knowledge co-creation --- policy analysis --- role-playing games --- water governance --- value change --- Mekong Delta --- natural resource management --- capacity building

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The concept of sustainability has been intensively used over the last decades since Brundtland´s report was published in 1987. This concept, due to its transversal, horizontal and interdisciplinary nature, can be used in many disciplines, scenarios, spatio-temporal dimensions and different circumstances. The intensive development in recent years of analytical techniques and tools based on disciplines such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, information theory and the Internet of Things, among others, has meant we are very well-placed for analysing the sustainability of water systems in a multiperspective way. Water systems management requires the most advanced approaches and tools for rigorously addressing all the dimensions involved in the sustainability of its development. Consequently, addressing the sustainability of water systems management may comprise physical (natural processes), chemical, socioeconomic, legal, institutional, infrastructure (engineering), political and cultural aspects, among others. This Special Issue welcomes general and specific contributions that address the sustainability of water systems management considering its development. Special interest will be given to those contributions that consider tradeoffs and/or integration between some of the aspects or disciplines that drive the sustainability of water systems in the context of their management and development.

suspended solids --- unmanned aerial vehicle --- spectral imaging --- artificial neural networks --- water resource --- South Korean urban industry --- green use efficiency of industrial water (GUEIW) --- global non-radial directional distance function model (GNDDF) --- economic efficiency of industrial water use (ECEIW) --- environmental efficiency of industrial water use (ENEIW) --- water quality --- climate change --- Bayesian networks --- uncertainty --- multi-models --- prioritization --- geomorphometric parameters --- compound parameter --- geospatial distribution --- GIS --- GHGs --- aquatic factors --- random forest --- water temperature --- nitrogen --- sulfate --- concrete arch-dams --- stability scenarios --- deformation scenarios --- safety management --- sustainability assessment --- runoff --- temporal dependence --- rivers’ sustainability --- predictive methods --- causal reasoning --- runoff fractions --- water management --- contamination --- integrated water resources management --- groundwater --- pollution --- Sub-Saharan Africa --- transition management --- water safety plan --- aquifer management --- water governance --- irrigation --- unauthorized use --- barbate river basin --- biocalcarenites --- remote sensing --- citizen surveys --- artificial neural network (ANN) --- chemical oxygen demand (COD) --- wastewater treatment plant (WWTP)

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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 --- 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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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