The wicked problem of pharmaceuticals in our waters

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-2018

Journal Title

Water International

ISSN

1941-1707

DOI

10.1080/02508060.2018.1452879

Abstract

Every year edge.org poses a ‘big question’ to the world’s intellectual community. Taking inspiration from them, at a much more modest scale, we asked a number of IWRA members who are international scholars and practitioners concerned with water quality to give us their reflections on the question, ‘What is a wicked problem facing integrated water quality management over the next two decades?’ In the end we received six responses spanning a gamut of concerns, from problems of allocation, management and monitoring, to ensuring sustainable development in global agriculture and in rapidly urbanizing China, to the troubling presence of pharmaceutical wastes. It is increasingly obvious that water supply and water quality are not separate domains, and cannot be managed in isolation if there is to be any hope of addressing these wicked problems.

First Page

341

Last Page

343

Num Pages

3

Volume Number

43

Issue Number

3

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Notes

Professor Eckstein's contribution is part of a compilation of responses published together in one article.

Editor

James E. Nickum, Henning Bjornlund & Raya Marina Stephan

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