Water Pollutants and Human Health: Challenges and Perspectives, 2nd Edition
A Special Issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441) belonging to the section "Water and One Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2027 | Viewed by 92
Editors
Interests: infection; immunity; endotoxin; water pollution; human health; new technology
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2. Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (CE3C), Department of Animal Biology, University of Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: fungal pathogens; sand quality; water quality; water quality indicators; wastewater surveillance
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Water aims to focus on recreational water and aims at gathering reviews and updates of current methods and parameters and assessment of water quality exploring innovative approaches. A theme throughout this Special Issue is to highlight the limitations of current regulations and challenge them, presenting possible improvements. For example, current regulations for assessing bathing water quality rely on fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) without considering the diversity of non-fecal pathogens, many emerging and associated with climate change and other disturbances to the water ecosystem. Microbial contaminants are thus a major concern for human health, but chemical parameters are not considered in most legislation throughout the world. Additional assessments of recreational water quality from a human health perspective are a relevant subject, and these may include papers focused on endotoxin and health, fungal contaminants, contaminants from sand, emerging pathogens (e.g., Vibrio spp and Candidozyma (Candida) auris), antimicrobial resistance genes and chemical pollutants. New methods of microbial detection that include such parameters will be reviewed, as well as innovative approaches to detect broader microbial and chemical contamination. A major drawback to current regulations is the reliance on bacterial culture. Results of water quality after 24–48 hours are not helpful for proactive decision-making to protect human health. We will therefore include novel approaches aimed at producing nearer real-time results that are suitable for continuous monitoring. This Special Issue, focuses on the detection and potential impact of some of the contaminants missed by current indicators of water quality and innovative approaches to measure them.
Prof. Dr. Simon Jackson
Dr. João Brandão
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biomarkers
- endotoxin
- fungal contaminants
- AMR genes
- antimicrobials
- microplastics
- emerging pathogens
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