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Microbial Risk Assessment for Recreational Waters
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Microbial Risk Assessment for Recreational Waters

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Wastewater Treatment and Reuse".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2022) | Viewed by 4471

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Shuhong Gao

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State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen 518055, China
Interests: risk identification and control of pathogenic microorganisms in aquatic environment; ecological risk mediated by emerging contaminants, such as microplastics and antibiotics
Dr. Xu Zhou

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State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen 518055, China
Interests: sludge conditioning/dewatering; advanced oxidization processes; anaerobic/aerobic digestion processes; biological treatment processes
Prof. Dr. Bin Liang

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State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518055, China
Interests: microbial degradation and transformation mechanism of risk pollutants

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Microbial risk assessment (MRA) is a process used to identify, confirm and quantify hazardous outcomes caused by exposure to certain microbial factors, based on existing scientific data, as well as to describe risk characterization. MRA can also provide preventative management decisions for potential microbial safety events, with powerful integrated analytical capabilities, and has received increasing attention in the field of water environmental systems (particularly in water reuse for recreational water). Over the recent decades, as outbreaks of waterborne diseases continue to occur globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended a preventive, risk-based approach for water quality management, from the source to exposure, for the management of microbial hazards. This approach indicates that the MRA of water systems will become an indispensable development area, and will play an important role in water reuse and public health safety management. The Special Issue "Microbial Risk Assessment for Recreational Waters", published in Water, will present the latest advances in MRA in the field of water reuse, as well as the key aspects of frontier hazard identification, safety assessment and risk characterization changes and applications.

Dr. Shuhong Gao
Dr. Xu Zhou
Prof. Dr. Bin Liang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • water reuse
  • recreational waters
  • microbial risk assessment
  • waterborne pathogens
  • water quality management
  • public health risk
  • improvements in water epidemiology

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Application of the Human Viral Surrogate Pepper Mild Mottle Virus for Wastewater Fecal Pollution Management
by Khalid Maniah, Islam Nour, Atif Hanif, Mohamed Taha Yassin, Abdulrahman Alkathiri, Yazeed Alharbi, Riyadh Alotaibi, Abdullah E. Al-Anazi and Saleh Eifan
Water 2022, 14(24), 4033; https://doi.org/10.3390/w14244033 - 10 Dec 2022
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Global water scarcity has led to significant dependence on reclaimed or recycled water for potable uses. Effluents arising from human and animal gut microbiomes highly influence water quality. Wastewater pollution is, therefore, frequently monitored using bacterial indicators (BI). However, threats to public health [...] Read more.
Global water scarcity has led to significant dependence on reclaimed or recycled water for potable uses. Effluents arising from human and animal gut microbiomes highly influence water quality. Wastewater pollution is, therefore, frequently monitored using bacterial indicators (BI). However, threats to public health arise from the frequent incidence of wastewater-mediated viral infections–undetected by BI. Moreover, the enteric viromes contaminating wastewater are characterized by high abundance, genetic diversity and persistence in various water environments. Furthermore, humans usually suffer a minimum of a single acute diarrheal episode over their lifetime arising from extraneously acquired enteric microbiomes. A wide range of management methods are employed—in particular, microbial source tracking (MST) approaches to confront infections arising from exposure to contaminated wastewater. This review elaborates the viral contamination of treated wastewater and associated public health issues. Latterly, we discuss the various management strategies of wastewater pollution using conventional fecal indicators, viral indicators and human viral surrogates, with particular interest in the pepper mild mottle virus (PMMoV). Globally, PMMoV has been detected in rivers, aquifers, irrigation systems, and coastal and marine waters at high prevalence rates and concentrations greater than 105 genome copies per liter (gc/L). PMMoV was also found in almost all untreated wastewater environments. PMMoV concentrations in wastewater vary from 103 to 107 gc/L. These values are more than the maximum recorded viral indicator concentrations in wastewater for other proposed indicators. Limited variability in the daily concentrations of PMMoV in fecal wastewater has been studied, with an estimated average concentration of 105 gc/L with insignificant seasonal variability. The information summarized in this article offers fundamental knowledge for decision making in terms of defining the suitability criteria of candidate fecal indicators, risk assessment application and efficient wastewater management. Full article
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