Monitoring sanitation and wastewater services for the Sustainable Development Goals: This collection of papers – a collaboration between the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene, UN-Habitat and npj Clean Water – will broadly explore efforts to monitor the full sanitation chain from containment, transport, treatment and final disposal or reuse.

Dr. Eric M. V. Hoek, a Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at University of California Los Angeles and currently the Editor-in-Chief of npj Microgravity is the 2022 Athalie Richardson Irvine Clarke Prize Laureate for Outstanding Achievement in Water Science and Technology.

In honor of World Water Day (March 22nd), Prof. Eric M. V. Hoek the Editor-in-Chief of npj Clean Water shared his thoughts on how his research addresses issues directly related to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 – Clean Water and Sanitation. He also talks about translating science into realities that can provide practical solutions to our challenges and nurture the public engagement.

Nanofiltration in the Global Water Cycle: Nanofiltration plays an important role in the global water cycle and we welcome submissions that address this potential.