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The frontiers of water and sanitation

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The way in which human society uses water is continuously evolving. The present challenges related to clean water availability require the development of sustainable technologies and infrastructure. Furthermore, a stronger and wider appreciation of water inequalities and injustice demand an adequate transformation of water governance at local and global scale. We have asked nine experts in various sectors of water-related research to share their views on how water and sanitation science, technology and governance must evolve to meet the requirements of a healthier relationship between water and society.

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  1. Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, and Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

    Anna M. Michalak

  2. The Research Institute for Water Security (RIWS), and State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

    Jun Xia

  3. HE Delft Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands

    Damir Brdjanovic

  4. Institute for Security Studies Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

    Aimée-Noël Mbiyozo

  5. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

    David Sedlak

  6. Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

    Thalappil Pradeep

  7. Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Upmanu Lall

  8. School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

    Nitya Rao

  9. Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Joyeeta Gupta

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