The production and use of everyday products, such as clothes, bottles, frying pans, cosmetics, medicines, etc., pollute water and this can affect people’s health through the water and food they consume.
In this context, we must be prepared to face the planet’s future environmental challenges that will increasingly challenge the maintenance of water quality standards and demand its reuse in a circular economy. Beatrice Cantoni is a researcher at oru CIRC-UITS partner, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. Her research focuses on what happens to emerging contaminants as they pass along the water cycle. Read the whole article here: https://www.frontiere.polimi.it/the-engineering-behind-a-tap/?lang=en