Biological stability of drinking water: controlling factors, methods, and challenges

EI Prest, F Hammes, MCM Van Loosdrecht… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Biological stability of drinking water refers to the concept of providing consumers with
drinking water of same microbial quality at the tap as produced at the water treatment facility …

Global water pollution and human health

RP Schwarzenbach, T Egli, TB Hofstetter… - Annual review of …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Water quality issues are a major challenge that humanity is facing in the twenty-first century.
Here, we review the main groups of aquatic contaminants, their effects on human health …

Quantitative microbiome profiling links gut community variation to microbial load

D Vandeputte, G Kathagen, K D'hoe, S Vieira-Silva… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Current sequencing-based analyses of faecal microbiota quantify microbial taxa and
metabolic pathways as fractions of the sample sequence library generated by each …

Application of cobalt/peracetic acid to degrade sulfamethoxazole at neutral condition: efficiency and mechanisms

Z Wang, J Wang, B **ong, F Bai, S Wang… - Environmental …, 2019 - ACS Publications
An advanced oxidation process of combining cobalt and peracetic acid (Co/PAA) was
developed to degrade sulfamethoxazole (SMX) in this study. The formed acetylperoxy …

Bacterial community shift drives antibiotic resistance promotion during drinking water chlorination

S Jia, P Shi, Q Hu, B Li, T Zhang… - Environmental science & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
For comprehensive insights into the effects of chlorination, a widely used disinfection
technology, on bacterial community and antibiotic resistome in drinking water, this study …

Ozone disinfection of chlorine-resistant bacteria in drinking water

W Ding, W **, S Cao, X Zhou, C Wang, Q Jiang… - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
The wide application of chlorine disinfectant for drinking water treatment has led to the
appearance of chlorine-resistant bacteria, which pose a severe threat to public health. This …

[LIVRE][B] Chemistry of ozone in water and wastewater treatment

C Von Sonntag, U Von Gunten - 2012 - library.oapen.org
Even though ozone has been applied for a long time for disinfection and oxidation in water
treatment, there is lack of critical information related to transformation of organic compounds …

Flow cytometric bacterial cell counts challenge conventional heterotrophic plate counts for routine microbiological drinking water monitoring

S Van Nevel, S Koetzsch, CR Proctor, MD Besmer… - Water Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Drinking water utilities and researchers continue to rely on the century-old heterotrophic
plate counts (HPC) method for routine assessment of general microbiological water quality …

Drinking water microbiome assembly induced by water stagnation

F Ling, R Whitaker, MW LeChevallier… - The ISME journal, 2018 - academic.oup.com
What happens to tap water when you are away from home? Day-to-day water stagnation in
building plumbing can potentially result in water quality deterioration (eg, lead release or …

Inactivation efficiency of plasmid-encoded antibiotic resistance genes during water treatment with chlorine, UV, and UV/H2O2

Y Yoon, HJ Chung, DYW Di, MC Dodd, HG Hur, Y Lee - Water Research, 2017 - Elsevier
This study assessed the inactivation efficiency of plasmid-encoded antibiotic resistance
genes (ARGs) both in extracellular form (e-ARG) and present within Escherichia coli …