Prioritizing water stewardship in kidney replacement therapies

We read with interest Ben Hmida et  al.’s article, Water Implications in Dialysis Therapy, Threats and Opportunities to Reduce Water Consumption: A Call for the Planet, and we laud the authors’ system-focused approach to global stewardship of this most precious resource.1 We suggest the following 2 additional measures to minimiz e dialysis water consumption: sorbent-based systems capable of dialysate regeneration; and economization of water use by working with water-treatment providers to optimize system settings in existing hemodialysis infrastructure (noting that optimizing existing systems also yields carbon-emissions sa vings).
Source: Kidney International - Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research