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Detection and selection of dye-degrading bacteria from surface waters with different degrees of contamination. 从不同污染程度的地表水中检测和筛选染料降解菌。

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Journal of water and health Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-27 DOI: 10.2166/wh.2025.264

Luciana Grifes Paisan, Rodrigo Andrés Carballo, Mariana Papalia, María Susana Fortunato, Marcela Radice, Sonia Edith Korol, Alfredo Gallego

{"title":"Detection and selection of dye-degrading bacteria from surface waters with different degrees of contamination.","authors":"Luciana Grifes Paisan, Rodrigo Andrés Carballo, Mariana Papalia, María Susana Fortunato, Marcela Radice, Sonia Edith Korol, Alfredo Gallego","doi":"10.2166/wh.2025.264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2025.264","url":null,"abstract":"Biodegradability and resistance from indigenous bacterial communities to dyes were tested using samples from both polluted and unpolluted surface waters in Buenos Aires. Five dyes were selected for the study: Acid Black 210, Direct Orange 39, Malachite Green, Gentian Violet, and Alizarin Red. Water quality was assessed by measuring chemical oxygen demand, biochemical oxygen demand, and both Escherichia coli and enterococci counts. Biodegradability was tested using a respirometric method, while resistance was assessed by determining the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC). No bacterial strains capable of degrading the dyes as the sole carbon source were isolated from the respirometric tests. However, from the MIC tests, 28 strains capable of dye discolouration were identified, using nutrient broth as a supplement. Two of them were able to degrade Malachite Green and Acid Black 210 at a concentration of 50 mg L-1 in less than 24 h and with an efficiency greater than 87%. These strains were identified as Aeromonas sp. and Shewanella sp. through MALDI-TOF/MS and 16S rRNA gene sequencing. The determination of biodegradability and resistance can be used to enhance the characterization of watercourses. Furthermore, this methodology provides a means to isolate biodegrading bacteria that could be applied in effluent treatment processes.","PeriodicalId":17436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of water and health","volume":"23 2","pages":"140-154"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143523673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Drinking private well water: Groundwater quality and management of wells in southern Alabama. 饮用私人井水：阿拉巴马州南部的地下水质量和水井管理。

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Journal of water and health Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-04 DOI: 10.2166/wh.2025.380

Sidney Millner, Natalia Malina, Stephanie R Rogers, Emma Henderson, Ann S Ojeda

{"title":"Drinking private well water: Groundwater quality and management of wells in southern Alabama.","authors":"Sidney Millner, Natalia Malina, Stephanie R Rogers, Emma Henderson, Ann S Ojeda","doi":"10.2166/wh.2025.380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2025.380","url":null,"abstract":"Private wells provide a source of household water for over 40 million people in the United States and an estimated 1 million people in the Coastal Lowlands Aquifer system along the Gulf of Mexico. Well water quality is dependent on the local geology and factors that contribute to anthropogenic contamination from the surface. Here, we evaluated groundwater quality and well management in southern Alabama, USA, to better understand factors that influence exposures through drinking water from private wells. The most common constituents that exceeded USEPA primary or secondary human health benchmarks were pH (92%), and total coliform (TC) (25%), followed by Fe (7%), Pb (6%), nitrate (1%), and As (1%). Most wells (68%) also displayed temporal changes in the number of exceedances, often showing positive for TC during one sampling campaign and negative in another, while the secondary standard for pH (6.5-8.5) was consistently not met. We also found that the common choices of water treatment did not protect against the most common water quality exceedances. Our results underscore the need to understand well water quality coupled with management practices when assessing potential exposures to the private well population through drinking water.","PeriodicalId":17436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of water and health","volume":"23 2","pages":"260-275"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143523674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Multi-tiered strategy for large-scale wastewater detection of SARS-CoV-2 in low-case settings provides confidence for public health actions.

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Journal of water and health Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-21 DOI: 10.2166/wh.2025.164

Aaron Jex, Nijoy John, David McCarthy, Steven Myers, Natacha Begue, Christelle Schang, Shane P Usher, Louise Baker, Christine Kaucner, Paul Monis, Leon M Hartman, Brianna Flynn, James E Merrett, David Lister, Marco Herold, Andrew Kueh, Ngai Ning Cheng, Jackson Nolan, Leon Caly, Julian Druce, Bruce Thorley, Peter J Scales, Jonathan Schmidt, Suzie Sarkis, Nicholas D Crosbie, Rachael Poon, Monica Nolan

{"title":"Multi-tiered strategy for large-scale wastewater detection of SARS-CoV-2 in low-case settings provides confidence for public health actions.","authors":"Aaron Jex, Nijoy John, David McCarthy, Steven Myers, Natacha Begue, Christelle Schang, Shane P Usher, Louise Baker, Christine Kaucner, Paul Monis, Leon M Hartman, Brianna Flynn, James E Merrett, David Lister, Marco Herold, Andrew Kueh, Ngai Ning Cheng, Jackson Nolan, Leon Caly, Julian Druce, Bruce Thorley, Peter J Scales, Jonathan Schmidt, Suzie Sarkis, Nicholas D Crosbie, Rachael Poon, Monica Nolan","doi":"10.2166/wh.2025.164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2025.164","url":null,"abstract":"Wastewater surveillance has played a pivotal role in monitoring SARS-CoV-2 transmission worldwide. However, developing and implementing the methods underpinning these programmes in regions with prolonged periods of low community transmission has proven challenging. In Victoria, Australia, wastewater surveillance provided early warning of unknown community infections and informed timely public health decisions to limit their spread when case numbers were low. To achieve this, we developed a methodological approach sensitive to extremely low viral loads and could readily identify false positives within short turnaround times. Here, we describe the successful development, implementation, and evaluation of analytic methods using Reverse Transcriptase Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-qPCR) and amplicon sequencing in tandem with CRISPR DETECTR in an ongoing, large-scale surveillance programme to detect SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater in Victoria, Australia. Our study covers ten months, from July 2020 to April 2021, and includes all state-wide health districts and prolonged periods with no known, active community cases among the ∼6.7 million population.","PeriodicalId":17436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of water and health","volume":"23 2","pages":"89-99"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143523837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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An investigation into the influence of climate extreme on groundwater regimes and human health in the Periyar Basin: A fast growing urban centre in India. 调查极端气候对佩里亚尔盆地地下水系统和人类健康的影响：印度一个快速发展的城市中心。

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Journal of water and health Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.2166/wh.2025.227

Sanal Kumar Aditya, Appukuttanpillai Krishnakumar, Krishnan Anoop Krishnan

{"title":"An investigation into the influence of climate extreme on groundwater regimes and human health in the Periyar Basin: A fast growing urban centre in India.","authors":"Sanal Kumar Aditya, Appukuttanpillai Krishnakumar, Krishnan Anoop Krishnan","doi":"10.2166/wh.2025.227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2025.227","url":null,"abstract":"A total of 212 groundwater samples were collected during North East Monsoon (NEM), South West Monsoon (SWM), Pre-Monsoon (PREM), and Post-Monsoon (POM) seasons of 2020-2021 from the Periyar River Basin, draining the south western flanks of Western Ghats. The analytical results revealed the order of abundance of cations as Ca2+ > Na+ > Mg2+ > K+ and anions in the order of HCO3- > Cl- > SO42- > NO3- for all seasons. The major hydrochemical facies identified were CaHCO3 and mixed Ca-Mg-Cl in all the seasons with rock-water interaction as the key process regulating water chemistry. Ionic ratios of Ca2+ + Mg2+/Na+ + K+ and Ca2+/Mg2+ suggested significant effect of silicate minerals and other sources. The Water Quality Index (WQI) shows that the majority of the samples, namely, 98% in NEM, 86% in POM, 82% in PREM, and 95% in MON, fall in the categories ranging from excellent to good for drinking purposes. Furthermore, the health risk assessment based on carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic risk of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) during monsoon and non-monsoon seasons for adults and children revealed the potential risk posed by Pb via oral exposure in the study area suggesting children being more susceptible to the damaging effects than adults.","PeriodicalId":17436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of water and health","volume":"23 2","pages":"111-139"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143523672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Erratum: Journal of Water and Health, 22 (11): 2233-2245: Effectiveness of the upscaled use of a silver-ceramic (silver ionization) technology to disinfect drinking water in tanks at schools in rural India, Luke Juran, Emily Wilcox, Meghan Albritton, James A. Smith, Jamie D. Harris, Alasdair Cohen, Lalit M. Sharma, Yashi Gautam, https://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wh.2024.407. 勘误：《水与健康杂志》，22 (11): 2233-2245：扩大使用银陶瓷（银离子）技术对印度农村学校水箱中的饮用水进行消毒的有效性》，Luke Juran、Emily Wilcox、Meghan Albritton、James A.Smith、Jamie D.Harris、Alasdair Cohen、Lalit M.Sharma、Yashi Gautam，https://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wh.2024.407。

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Journal of water and health Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.2166/wh.2025.001

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Measuring the human dimensions of water insecurity in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions: a narrative review.

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Journal of water and health Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-23 DOI: 10.2166/wh.2025.298

Angela Daley, Kiley Daley, Kathleen P Bell, Shaleen Jain

{"title":"Measuring the human dimensions of water insecurity in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions: a narrative review.","authors":"Angela Daley, Kiley Daley, Kathleen P Bell, Shaleen Jain","doi":"10.2166/wh.2025.298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2025.298","url":null,"abstract":"Water (in)security is central to achieving sustainable development in Arctic communities. To characterize the pervasive and place-based challenges faced by Arctic residents and communities, water insecurity can be examined across five dimensions (i.e., availability, accessibility, safety, reliability and preference). Based on an analysis of 61 studies, this narrative review synthesizes how the human dimensions of Arctic water insecurity have been measured in the scientific literature. This review serves as a resource for researchers, policymakers and practitioners when selecting measures of water insecurity based on past studies, and for addressing knowledge gaps through the development of new measures in partnership with Arctic and Indigenous communities. Faced with rapid climatic and societal change, enhanced human-centered measures of water insecurity in the Arctic will enable future research, policy, monitoring, management and stewardship. This is necessary to achieve the human right to water and Sustainable Development Goal of clean water and sanitation for all.","PeriodicalId":17436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of water and health","volume":"23 2","pages":"206-224"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143523831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Potable water as a source of intermediate and borderline-resistant Aspergillus and Candida strains.

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Journal of water and health Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-23 DOI: 10.2166/wh.2025.300

Monika Novak Babič, Nina Gunde-Cimerman

{"title":"Potable water as a source of intermediate and borderline-resistant Aspergillus and Candida strains.","authors":"Monika Novak Babič, Nina Gunde-Cimerman","doi":"10.2166/wh.2025.300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2025.300","url":null,"abstract":"The World Health Organization calls to assess possible health risks from emerging fungi originating not only from hospitals but also from the natural environment. Fungal contamination in oligotrophic water systems represents a public health concern due to the potential for the emergence of antifungal-resistant strains. This study focused on the identification of Aspergillus spp. and Candida spp. isolated from different water sources and materials in contact with water. Isolated strains have been tested against nine antifungals to assess the prevalence of resistance in these strains. Only one strain of Aspergillus protuberus was resistant to amphotericin B. On the other hand, all Candida strains were intermediately resistant to anidulafungin and micafungin, 5.8% were borderline resistant to 5-flucytosine and fluconazole, and 3% to voriconazole. Candida parapsilosis sensu stricto isolated from water samples had statistically higher minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) for anidulafungin than clinical strains and clinical strains had statistically higher MIC for itraconazole. Statistical analysis pointed out habitat to be significant for higher MIC in C. parapsilosis. Our findings show that borderline-resistant strains can be transferred by water; thus, potable water should be considered as a possible source of resistant strains in hospitals and healthcare units.","PeriodicalId":17436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of water and health","volume":"23 2","pages":"225-237"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143523843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The new map of Argentine population exposed to arsenic in drinking water.

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Journal of water and health Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-02 DOI: 10.2166/wh.2024.225

Leandro Duarte, Laura De Gracia, Sergio Montico, Alejandro Oliva

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Removal capacities of wastewater treatment plants to minimize spread of enteroviruses.

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Journal of water and health Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-04 DOI: 10.2166/wh.2025.281

Cansu Ozgur, Bulent Icgen

{"title":"Removal capacities of wastewater treatment plants to minimize spread of enteroviruses.","authors":"Cansu Ozgur, Bulent Icgen","doi":"10.2166/wh.2025.281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2025.281","url":null,"abstract":"The enteroviruses such as Adenovirus, Enterovirus, Hepatitis A virus, Norovirus, and Rotavirus are mostly transmitted via water and are commonly seen in Turkey. Due to lack of regulations for monitoring these viruses at the discharge points of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), the discharges reach to surface waters causing water-borne diseases. This emphasizes the importance of WWTPs' removal capacities to minimize the spread of enteroviruses. To evaluate the removal capacities of enteroviruses, five different types of WWTPs from Ankara-Turkey were investigated over a year. Seasonal abundances of enterovirus-specific genes in both influents and effluents from each WWTP were determined by quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR). The reduction of enteroviral nucleic acids in the effluent wastewater samples compared to the influent wastewater samples was assessed as the removal capacity in log10 reduction values (LRVs). The qPCR results revealed that among five different types of WWTPs tested, membrane bioreactors effectively removed Adenovirus alone with LRVs more than 3. The removal of Enterovirus, Hepatitis A virus, Norovirus, and Rotavirus in WWTPs with varying processes was below LRV 3.","PeriodicalId":17436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of water and health","volume":"23 2","pages":"190-205"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143523759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Microbiological characterization of drinking water and socio-environmental study in the peri-urban area of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯拉普拉塔近郊区饮用水的微生物特征和社会环境研究。

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Journal of water and health Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-04 DOI: 10.2166/wh.2024.128

Andrea Celina Falcone, Matias Hernán Assandri, María Elisa Helman, Joaquín Alejandro Córdoba, Virginia Vetere, Juan Manuel Unzaga

{"title":"Microbiological characterization of drinking water and socio-environmental study in the peri-urban area of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.","authors":"Andrea Celina Falcone, Matias Hernán Assandri, María Elisa Helman, Joaquín Alejandro Córdoba, Virginia Vetere, Juan Manuel Unzaga","doi":"10.2166/wh.2024.128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2024.128","url":null,"abstract":"The aim was to analyze the groundwater quality and evaluate the socio-environmental factors associated with the indicators of environmental contamination in the peri-urban area of La Plata. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted between 2013 and 2023, and six neighborhoods were selected. Water samples were taken according to the Argentine Food Code and a parasitological analysis of the water was performed using ultrafiltration. Socio-environmental analyses were carried out with semi-structured questionnaires and a generalized linear model was used considering a binomial distribution. Of the total water samples, 70% (75/106) indicated that the water is not suitable for consumption. The highest contamination by total coliforms was observed in Abasto, and the risk of contamination by this indicator was higher (odds ratio > 5) compared to other neighborhoods. A moderate percentage of fecal coliforms and Escherichia coli was found in Melchor Romero and El Peligro, although it was higher than that detected in the other neighborhoods. Pseudomonas spp. was observed in all the samples in Arana and in moderate amounts in Abasto and Lisandro Olmos. Entamoeba spp. and Blastocystis spp. were found in a quarter of the water samples. It is essential to manage environmental sanitation and family health access policies.","PeriodicalId":17436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of water and health","volume":"23 2","pages":"79-88"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143523834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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