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Warish Ahmed, Bridie Hughes and Valerie J. Harwood
Microbial source tracking (MST) endeavors to determine sources of fecal pollution in environmental waters by capitalizing on the association of certain microorganisms with the gastrointestinal tract and feces of specific animal groups. Several decades of...
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Ingun Tryland, Henrik Braathen, Aina C. Wennberg, Fasil Eregno, Anna-Lena Beschorner
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Simple, automated methods are required for rapid detection of wastewater contamination in urban recreational water. The activity of the enzyme ß-d-galactosidase (GAL) can rapidly (<2 h) be measured by field instruments, or a fully automated instrument, a...
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Reinaldo Rivera, Patricio de Los Ríos, Ángel Contreras
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The presence of alloctone bacteria is considered as one of the more important biological pollutants of water bodies, existing one close relation between the fecal contamination indicators and the existence of urban and industrial zones. In the present...
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Niels De Troyer, Seid Tiku Mereta, Peter L.M. Goethals, Pieter Boets
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The combination of rapid urbanization, industrialization, population growth, and low environmental awareness poses a major threat to worldwide valuable freshwater resources, which provide important ecosystem services to humans. There is an urgent need to...
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Niels De Troyer, Seid Tiku Mereta, Peter L.M. Goethals and Pieter Boets
The combination of rapid urbanization, industrialization, population growth, and low environmental awareness poses a major threat to worldwide valuable freshwater resources, which provide important ecosystem services to humans. There is an urgent need to...
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TaeHo Kim, YoungWoo Kim, Jihoon Shin, ByeongGeon Go and YoonKyung Cha
This study evaluated the influence of different land-cover types on the overall water quality of streams in urban areas. To ensure national applicability of the results, this study encompassed ten major metropolitan areas in South Korea. Using cluster an...
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Gabriela Pérez Castresana, Víctor Tamariz Flores, Lucía López Reyes, Fernando Hernández Aldana, Rosalía Castelán Vega, José Luis Morán Perales, Wendy Argelia García Suastegui, Alfonso Díaz Fonseca and Anabella Handal Silva
The Atoyac River crosses the metropolitan area of Puebla-Tlaxcala in Mexico and presents a state of pollution that has been scarcely studied. In 2016, the water quality of the river was evaluated based on physicochemical and bacteriological parameters, u...
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Gabriela Pérez Castresana, Víctor Tamariz Flores, Lucía López Reyes, Fernando Hernández Aldana, Rosalía Castelán Vega, José Luis Morán Perales, Wendy Argelia García Suastegui, Alfonso Díaz Fonseca and Anabella Handal Silva
The Atoyac River crosses the metropolitan area of Puebla-Tlaxcala in Mexico and presents a state of pollution that has been scarcely studied. In 2016, the water quality of the river was evaluated based on physicochemical and bacteriological parameters, u...
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Sekato Maremane, Gladys Belle and Paul Oberholster
Rivers in Africa have experienced dire pollution as a result of the poor management of wastewater effluent emanating from water resource recovery facilities (WRRFs). An integrated wastewater resource recovery model was developed and applied to identify i...
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Juan Jofre, Francisco Lucena, Anicet R. Blanch and Maite Muniesa
Two groups of bacteriophages that infect Escherichia coli, somatic and F-specific coliphages, have been used in academia as both fecal and viral indicators for many years. Regulatory authorities in different parts of the world are beginning to consider c...
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Yifeng Yang, Jingshuai Luan, Jing Nie, Xin Zhang, Jiong Du, Gang Zhao, Lei Dong, Yong Fan, He Cui and Yubo Li
In the past, due to improper sludge treatment technology and the absence of treatment standards, some municipal sludge was simply dewatered and then sent to landfills, occupying a significant amount of land and posing a serious threat of secondary pollut...
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Mohamed Elsayed Gabr, Nadhir Al-Ansari, Ali Salem and Ahmed Awad
Point and nonpoint wastewater sources have a detrimental, negative effect on agriculture, soil, surface, and groundwater supplies. In this research, a wastewater treatment system made up of a sedimentation tank, a horizontal subsurface flow constructed w...
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Simone Bonamano, Alice Madonia, Gabriella Caruso, Giuseppe Zappalà and Marco Marcelli
Bacterial pathogens in coastal aquatic ecosystems pose a potential public health hazard for bathing water use. The European Bathing Water Directive (2006/7/EC) currently relies on the culturability of fecal pollution bacterial indicators such as Escheric...
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G. M. P. R. Weerakoon, K. B. S. N. Jinadasa, G. B. B. Herath, M. I. M. Mowjood and W. J. Ng
Water in agricultural catchments is prone to pollution from agricultural runoff containing nutrients and pesticides, and contamination from the human population working and residing therein. This study examined the quality of water in a drainage stream w...
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Kiran Kumar Vadde, Jianjun Wang, Long Cao, Tianma Yuan, Alan J. McCarthy and Raju Sekar
Taihu Lake is the third largest freshwater lake in China and serves as a drinking water source for ~30 million residents. Tiaoxi River is one of the main rivers connected to this lake and contributes >60% of the source water. Taihu Lake has been facing v...
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Kiran Kumar Vadde, Jianjun Wang, Long Cao, Tianma Yuan, Alan J. McCarthy and Raju Sekar
Taihu Lake is the third largest freshwater lake in China and serves as a drinking water source for ~30 million residents. Tiaoxi River is one of the main rivers connected to this lake and contributes >60% of the source water. Taihu Lake has been facing v...
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G. M. P. R. Weerakoon, K. B. S. N. Jinadasa, G. B. B. Herath, M. I. M. Mowjood and W. J. Ng
Water in agricultural catchments is prone to pollution from agricultural runoff containing nutrients and pesticides, and contamination from the human population working and residing therein. This study examined the quality of water in a drainage stream w...
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Martins Ajibade Adefisoye, Anthony Ifeanyin Okoh
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This study assessed the prevalence of fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) and Vibrio species, as well as the physicochemical qualities of the discharged effluents of two wastewater treatment facilities, in the Eastern Cape, South Africa over a one-year sampli...
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Martins Ajibade Adefisoye and Anthony Ifeanyin Okoh
This study assessed the prevalence of fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) and Vibrio species, as well as the physicochemical qualities of the discharged effluents of two wastewater treatment facilities, in the Eastern Cape, South Africa over a one-year sampli...
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Muhammad Umer Masood, Muhammad Rashid, Saif Haider, Iram Naz, Chaitanya B. Pande, Salim Heddam, Fahad Alshehri, Ismail Elkhrachy, Amimul Ahsan and Saad Sh. Sammen
Groundwater is an important source of freshwater. At the same time, anthropogenic activities, in particular, industrialization, urbanization, population growth, and excessive application of fertilizers, are some of the major reasons for groundwater quali...
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