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Wastewater quality indicators

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Effect of wastewater treatment and environmental exposure on an enterovirus population

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The presence of viruses in recreational water can present a risk for human health and wastewater effluent is a source of virus in the environment. Their persistence in the environment influences their probability to find a new host. Studies have shown that ...

EPFL2022

Advancements in heavy metals removal from effluents employing nano-adsorbents: Way towards cleaner production

Edgard Gnansounou, Baskar Gurunathan

Due to the development in science field which gives not only benefit but also introducesundesirable pollution to the environment. This pollution is due to poor discharge activities of industrial effluents into the soil and water bodies, surface run off fro ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2022

The Land-Water-Energy Nexus of Ruzizi River Dams (Lake Kivu Outflow, African Great Lakes Region): Status, Challenges, and Perspectives

Alfred Johny Wüest

Hydroelectric power (HP) represents the main source of electricity in Africa, including the Democratic Republic of Congo. The demand for new dam construction is high, and major projects are currently progressing through planning and implementation stages. ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Sewage reveals SARS-CoV2 spread in Canton of Ticino during the onset of the pandemic

Tamar Kohn, Xavier Fernandez Cassi, Federica Cariti, Alex Tunas Corzon, Timothy R. Julian

We investigated SARS-CoV2 spread in the Canton of Ticino, in Switzerland, at the very beginning of the pandemic (end of February 2020 - beginning of March 2020) analyzing wastewater samples. We compared data obtained from clinical testing and wastewater an ...

2021

The influence of climate on water chemistry states and dynamics in rivers across Australia

Camille Roland Marie Minaudo

For effective water quality management and policy development, spatial variability in the mean concentrations and dynamics of riverine water quality needs to be understood. Using water chemistry (calcium, electrical conductivity, nitrate-nitrite, soluble r ...

WILEY2021

Participatory research to monitor lake water pollution

Luc Patiny, Carlos Vivar Rios, Rachel Aronoff

A participatory research team, concerned about water quality around Lake Geneva, particularly in the Montreux Bay region where some were lifeguards, ran sampling campaigns to determine summertime levels of lake water pollution. The participants were brough ...

WILEY2021

A Tale of Two Treatments: The Multiple Barrier Approach to Removing Chemical Contaminants During Potable Water Reuse

Urs von Gunten

In response to water scarcity and an increased recognition of the risks associated with the presence of chemical contaminants, environmental engineers have developed advanced water treatment systems that are capable of converting municipal wastewater efflu ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Contribution of 3D coupled hydrodynamic-ecological modeling to assess the representativeness of a sampling protocol for lake water quality assessment

Damien Bouffard, Frédéric Charles Soulignac, Robert Eduard Uittenbogaard

This study deals with the impact of spatio-temporal heterogeneities on the assessment of lake ecological status according to the European water framework directive (WFD). A method, based on three-dimensional coupled hydrodynamic and ecological modeling, is ...

EDP Sciences2019

Pepper mild mottle virus as a water quality indicator

Pepper mild mottle virus (PMMoV) was recently found to be the most abundant RNA virus in human feces, and is a plant virus belonging to the genus Tobamovirus in the family Virgoviridae. When in human feces, it is of dietary origin from peppers and their pr ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2018

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