The quality water to satisfy the human needs is an increasingly scarce resource and its possession is an essential factor for social and economic development. In many territorial areas, the increasing accumulation of population together with a scarce rainfall and which is irregularly distributed in time, and together with limited superficial resources are resulting in the depletion of subterranean resources, which is hardly reversible. At the same time, the consequences of climate change on water resources generate greater uncertainty about the situation.
Currently, in most regions in the world, water management is a challenge that must be addressed with urgency from a multidisciplinary perspective, considering both qualitative and quantitative aspects. Adopting efficient strategies to optimise the general management of water resources in any geographical area, and that allow to alleviate the existing unbalances, taking into account both the conventional supply sources and the alternative ones, like sea water or desalinated salty water, or the water regenerated from urban treatment stations, is important.
Responding to these challenges requires to have professionals and researchers who know how to firmly use all those analysis techniques and tools that allow to deal with any inefficiency in the water management from a realistic perspective and providing always useful and efficient solutions.
