PhD Project: Shedding light on the "invisible" water crisis - Modelling past and future global surface water quality

Publications:

1. Jones, E.R., Bierkens, M.F.P., van Puijenbroek, P.J.T.M., van Beek, L.P.H., Wanders, N., Sutanudjaja, E.H., and van Vliet, M.T.H. (2023) Sub-Saharan Africa will increasingly become the dominant hotspot of surface water pollution, Nature Water, 1, 602-613.
2. Jones, E. R., Bierkens, M. F. P., Wanders, N., Sutanudjaja, E. H., van Beek, L. P. H., and van Vliet, M. T. H. (2023) DynQual v1.0: a high-resolution global surface water quality model, Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 4481–4500.
3. Jones, E. R., Bierkens, M. F. P., Wanders, N., Sutanudjaja, E. H., van Beek, L. P. H., and van Vliet, M. T. H. (2022). Current wastewater treatment targets are insufficient to protect surface water quality, Communications Earth & Environment, 3, 221.
4. Jones, E. R., van Vliet, M. T., Qadir, M., & Bierkens, M. F. (2021). Country-level and gridded estimates of wastewater production, collection, treatment and reuse. Earth System Science Data, 13(2), 237-254.
5. van Vliet, M. T., Jones, E. R., Flörke, M., Franssen, W. H., Hanasaki, N., Wada, Y., & Yearsley, J. R. (2021). Global water scarcity including surface water quality and expansions of clean water technologies. Environmental Research Letters, 16(2), 024020. Chicago
6. Jones, E., Qadir, M., van Vliet, M. T. H., Smakhtin, V., & Kang, S. M. (2019). The state of desalination and brine production: A global outlook, Science of The Total Environment, 657, 1343-1356.
7. Jones, E., & van Vliet, M. T. (2018). Drought impacts on river salinity in the southern US: Implications for water scarcity. Science of the Total Environment, 644, 844-853.