Water Use Efficiency, Sustainability and The Circular Economy

Water Use Efficiency, Sustainability, and The Circular Economy is a comprehensive guide on water resource management in the context of a circular economy. The book covers a wide spectrum of topics, from water reuse and recycling strategies that foster sustainability to comprehensive lifecycle assessments of grey and black water management. It explores how circular economy principles can revolutionize basic water supply networking, catalyzing a shift towards more resilient and eco-conscious urban water systems.

Lastly, the book contains innovative approaches like blockchain technology for water management and the circular economy perspective on wastewater resource management for energy recovery to help students, scholars, and policymakers navigate the complexities around water resource management.

Dr. Suhaib A. Bandh is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Science at Govt. Degree College DH Pora, teaching the courses of Environmental Science and Disaster Management. He is a member of the Academy of Plant Sciences India and National Environmental Science Academy. He is a recipient of many awards. He has participated in several national and international conferences held by different reputed scientific bodies in India and abroad. He has a few monographs and several scientific publications to his credit, published in some highly reputed and impacted journals, which attest to his scientific insight, fine experimental skills, and outstanding writing skills. Dr Bandh has recently edited and authored around 18 books including:

- Freshwater Microbiology: Perspectives of Lake Bacterial Dynamics with Elsevier Press, https: //doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-817495-1.00001-3

- Environmental Management: Environmental Issue, awareness, and abatement with Springer Press

- Perspectives of Environmental Science with Callisto Reference.

- Currently Dr. Bandh is currently working on several book Project like

- Climate Change and Microbial Diversity: Impact and Vulnerability with AAP/CRC Press, a Taylor & Francis Group.

- Climate Change and Microbes: Construction of Sustainable Future with AAP/CRC Press, a Taylor & Francis Group.

- Climate Change: the social and scientific construct with Springer Nature

- Freshwater Biodiversity with AAP/CRC Press, a Taylor & Francis Group.

- Freshwater Mycology: Perspectives of fungal dynamics in freshwater ecosystems ISBN: 9780323998208. Elsevier Inc. USA. https: //www.elsevier.com/books/freshwater-mycology/bandh/978-0-323-91232-7

- Valorization of Microalgal Biomass and Wastewater Treatment by Suhaib A. Bandh and Fayaz A. Malla. ISBN: 9780323918695. Elsevier Inc. USA. https: //www.elsevier.com/books/valorisation-of-microalgal-biomass-and-wastewater-treatment/bandh/978-0-323-91869-5

- Bifuels in Environmental Sustainability by Khalid Rehman Hakeem, Suhaib A. Bandh, Fayaz A. Malla and Mohammad Aneesul Mehmood. ISBN: 9780323911597. Elsevier Inc. USA. https: //www.elsevier.com/books/environmental-sustainability-of-biofuels/hakeem/978-0-323-91159-7

- Biofuels in Circular Economy with Springer Nature

Dr. Bandh holds a bachelor's degree from Sri Pratap College Srinagar, a master's degree in Environmental Science from the University of Kashmir, an M. Phil degree from Awadhesh Pratap Singh University Rewa (M.P), and a Ph.D. in Environmental Science with a specialization in freshwater fungi from University of Kashmir, Srinagar.

Dr. Fayaz finished his PhD in Environmental Science on "Biogas methane enrichment using selective chemical scavengers and microalgae" from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. He has a strong interest in waste management, pollution and renewable energy as his PhD was focused on the same issue. Moreover, in the university he has also dealt with water conservation and management, water auditing and water use efficiency in agriculture. He has published many research articles in reputed, referred national and international journals. He has also presented many research papers at national and international conferences. Previously, he worked as Research Associate with Water resources division in The Energy and Research Institute (TERI) and currently working as Assistant Professor in Higher Education Department Government of Jammu and Kashmir. Dr Malla has recently edited two books with Elsevier Press on "Valorization of Microalgal Biomass and Wastewater Treatment" and "Environmental Sustainability of Biofuels". He has also edited one book published by Springer Nature Singapore on "Biofuels in circular economy".

Professor Anthony Halog is a Continuing Academic Staff at the University of Queensland (Australia) and joined from the University of Maine, USA where he was a professor in Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Bioeconomy. He has been researching the circular economy and bioeconomy since 2008 long before it became known in Australia in 2017. He was educated in Asia, Australia, and Europe, and worked in Japan and North America prior to settling in Australia. His research focuses on the sustainability of human-nature complexity through understanding the nexus of material and energy systems. Over the years, he has been working on the foundation and industrial applications of Circular Bioeconomy, Greening Supply Chains, Green Economy, Sustainable Operations, Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA), and Resource Management. His Research Group in Industrial Ecology and Circular Economy at UQ (http: //industrialece.wixsite.com/main) endeavours to provide service/expertise for industry clients (e.g. agri-food-energy systems) in transforming existing linear system-based value chains and operations towards circularity, which enhances their resource efficiency & productivity, creates added value products from wastes, and reduces emissions into the environment for more sustainable consumption and production in the future. He is keen in pursuing collaborative and cross-disciplinary research across industries via system analysis and modelling. He participated in sustainability assessment-related courses at the United Nations University, Japan, and Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria. His qualification in environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) has been certified by the American Centre for Life Cycle Assessment (ACLCA) since January 2009. He has been serving as Australia-Germany Research Ambassador (DAAD-Australia) since September 2019.

He has been a Visiting Research Scholar/Fellow/Professor in several leading research institutions in Europe, North America, and Asia. He has given keynote talks worldwide to share his expertise in greening supply chains, circular economy, and industrial sustainability. He has served on different grant review panels in the USA, Europe, and Asia as well as in several technical and organising committees in conferences over the past years, and involved in editorial boards in peer-refereed journals. Before UQ, he received funding from highly competitive grants and was involved in US-funded projects of $7.7 million as a CI, out of which $841,281 was awarded to his specific research on the life cycle sustainability assessment of biomass-based technological systems. He had been awarded highly competitive early-career fellowships in Japan, Canada, and the USA, equivalent to ARC DECRA/UQ. Together with his collaborators, he has received grants and fellowships for a total of $69192 non-ARC funds in Australia.