Application of Environmental Microbiology in Water Treatment
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Wastewater Treatment and Reuse".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2026 | Viewed by 5407
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental science; microbiology; microbiome; metagenomics; water; wastewater; water treatment; bioremediation; muti-omics; artificial intelligence
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Addressing the scarcity of potable water and contamination of freshwater resources due to the salination of water bodies, eutrophication, harmful algal blooms, the biomagnification of toxic compounds and heavy metals is becoming an urgent necessity and is increasingly a major concern due to the growing global population. The quantity as well as quality of water is being significantly affected by increasing populations, urbanization, and industrialization. Due to this increasing water scarcity, there is a need to revitalize sustainable/green technology as an effective part of the water treatment processes. For many years now, microorganisms have represented novel avenues for innovative trends and techniques in the removal of toxic pollutants and industrial effluents from rivers, surveillance through wastewater treatment plants, novel bioremediation methods (for instance, nanoparticles), identifying the health status of water bodies through satellite imaging, etc. The aim of this Special Issue is to discuss the latest discoveries in this field and provide directions for future research in the form of original research articles and review papers. This Issue will focus on topics such as water and wastewater treatment using microbes; the role of environmental microbiology in water purification; microalgal species in toxic metal removal; bioremediation processes in water treatment; sustainable water treatment methods; the role of aquatic microbes, machine learning, and artificial intelligence in elucidating the effects of climate change; and the effects of industrialization and other anthropogenic activities on water bodies. We encourage the submission of articles relevant to recent advances and novel trends that allude to the applications of environmental microbiology in water treatment.
Dr. Swarna Kanchan
Dr. Minu Kesheri
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- microbiology
- water
- wastewater
- water treatment
- microbiome
- metagenomics
- cyanobacteria
- wastewater surveil-lance
- multi-omics
- bioinformatics, artificial intelligence
- machine learning
- nanoparticles
- used water
- public health
- algal blooms
- toxicity
- heavy metal removal
- microalgae
- brown algae
- algae
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