Discover WaterPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-05-20DOI: 10.1007/s43832-025-00228-8
Erica Pensini, Caitlyn Hsiung, Alejandro G Marangoni
{"title":"Biosurfactant-producing bacteria counteract hydrocarbon-driven delay of sulfolane migration in groundwater.","authors":"Erica Pensini, Caitlyn Hsiung, Alejandro G Marangoni","doi":"10.1007/s43832-025-00228-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s43832-025-00228-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sulfolane is a worldwide water-soluble pollutant, which typically migrates rapidly in impacted aquifers, with risks to water bodies and drinking water wells. Sulfolane migration may be delayed in sites co-polluted by hydrocarbons, which move more slowly and in which sulfolane partitions. However, when bacteria such as <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> aerobically biodegrade hydrocarbons and sulfolane, they generate biosurfactants (such as rhamnolipids). These enclose sulfolane within micelles and droplets, as seen by optical microscopy, and hamper its partitioning into hydrocarbons, as shown by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Therefore, biosurfactants have the potential to accelerate sulfolane migration in groundwater, compared to scenarios where biosurfactant-producing bacteria are absent. These findings will aid safe management of impacted sites, where aerobic bacterial bioremediation is used for pollutant clean-up. When aerobic bacterial activity is promoted to enable pollutant biodegradation, sulfolane migration may accelerate before clean-up is complete, begging for careful monitoring of pollutant plumes.</p><p><strong>Graphical abstract: </strong></p>","PeriodicalId":29971,"journal":{"name":"Discover Water","volume":"5 1","pages":"36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12092487/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144128880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimizing water supply systems in developing regions: a sustainable approach using ESCO model system for urban water supply in Dehradun, India","authors":"Paritosh Singh Rana, Ram Swaroop Uniyal, Krishana Pallava Chamola, Ashish Kumar Srivastava","doi":"10.1007/s43832-024-00107-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43832-024-00107-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29971,"journal":{"name":"Discover Water","volume":"71 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141922494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Discover WaterPub Date : 2024-08-08DOI: 10.1007/s43832-024-00113-w
M. Sedighkia, B. Datta
{"title":"Minimum environmental flow assessment: a fuzzy TOPSIS decision-making system for selecting the best approach","authors":"M. Sedighkia, B. Datta","doi":"10.1007/s43832-024-00113-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43832-024-00113-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29971,"journal":{"name":"Discover Water","volume":"29 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141926984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Discover WaterPub Date : 2024-07-26DOI: 10.1007/s43832-024-00115-8
Animesh Choudhury
{"title":"Drought trend and its association with land surface temperature (LST) over homogeneous drought regions of India (2001–2019)","authors":"Animesh Choudhury","doi":"10.1007/s43832-024-00115-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43832-024-00115-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29971,"journal":{"name":"Discover Water","volume":"57 27","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141799219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Discover WaterPub Date : 2024-07-23DOI: 10.1007/s43832-023-00050-0
Renato Zimiani de Paula, Luciane Fontana, T. A. de Jesus
{"title":"Phosphorus removal by free water surface constructed wetlands for the wastewater treatment: bibliometric and bibliographic review","authors":"Renato Zimiani de Paula, Luciane Fontana, T. A. de Jesus","doi":"10.1007/s43832-023-00050-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43832-023-00050-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29971,"journal":{"name":"Discover Water","volume":"20 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141813598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Discover WaterPub Date : 2024-07-19DOI: 10.1007/s43832-024-00100-1
Tesema Kebede Seifu
{"title":"Hydrogeochemical and stable isotope characteristics of the Shinile and Fafen-Jerer catchment of eastern Ethiopia","authors":"Tesema Kebede Seifu","doi":"10.1007/s43832-024-00100-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43832-024-00100-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29971,"journal":{"name":"Discover Water","volume":"115 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141821168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Discover WaterPub Date : 2024-07-18DOI: 10.1007/s43832-024-00101-0
Sangeeta Banerjee, Barkha Madhogaria, Oishi Saha, A. Kundu, P. Dhak
{"title":"Vermifiltration: an opportunity to improve wastewater treatment—a sustainable and natural approach","authors":"Sangeeta Banerjee, Barkha Madhogaria, Oishi Saha, A. Kundu, P. Dhak","doi":"10.1007/s43832-024-00101-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43832-024-00101-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29971,"journal":{"name":"Discover Water","volume":" 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141827254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Groundwater recharge potentiality mapping for opportune augmentation following two MCDMs for a Western Himalayan watershed","authors":"Himanshu Joshi, Manoj Singh Bohra, Devendra Kumar, Meenu Rani, Om Prakash Arya","doi":"10.1007/s43832-024-00103-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43832-024-00103-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29971,"journal":{"name":"Discover Water","volume":"40 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141649327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}