Biological stability of drinking water: controlling factors, methods, and challenges

EI Prest, F Hammes, MCM Van Loosdrecht… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Biological stability of drinking water refers to the concept of providing consumers with
drinking water of same microbial quality at the tap as produced at the water treatment facility …

Next generation sequencing approaches to evaluate water and wastewater quality

E Garner, BC Davis, E Milligan, MF Blair, I Keenum… - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The emergence of next generation sequencing (NGS) is revolutionizing the potential to
address complex microbiological challenges in the water industry. NGS technologies can …

Assessing the impact of source water on tap water bacterial communities in 46 drinking water supply systems in China

Z Han, W An, M Yang, Y Zhang - Water Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Drinking water purification and distribution processes shape the bacterial community in tap
water; however, this study calls attention to the impact of source water on tap water bacterial …

Impact of water chemistry, pipe material and stagnation on the building plumbing microbiome

P Ji, J Parks, MA Edwards, A Pruden - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
A unique microbiome establishes in the portion of the potable water distribution system
within homes and other buildings (ie, building plumbing). To examine its composition and …

Long-term spatial and temporal microbial community dynamics in a large-scale drinking water distribution system with multiple disinfectant regimes

S Potgieter, A Pinto, M Sigudu, H Du Preez, E Ncube… - Water Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Long-term spatial-temporal investigations of microbial dynamics in full-scale drinking water
distribution systems are scarce. These investigations can reveal the process, infrastructure …

[HTML][HTML] Microbiomes in drinking water treatment and distribution: A meta-analysis from source to tap

C Thom, CJ Smith, G Moore, P Weir, UZ Ijaz - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
A meta-analysis of existing and available Illumina 16S rRNA datasets from drinking water
source, treatment and drinking water distribution systems (DWDS) were collated to compare …

Influence of pipe materials on the microbial community in unchlorinated drinking water and biofilm

KLG Learbuch, H Smidt, P Van Der Wielen - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Biodegradable compounds can cause undesired microbial growth in drinking water systems
and these compounds can originate from the water or pipe materials used in drinking water …

Microbiome of drinking water: A full-scale spatio-temporal study to monitor water quality in the Paris distribution system

Y Perrin, D Bouchon, V Delafont, L Moulin, Y Héchard - Water Research, 2019 - Elsevier
The microbiological water quality of drinking water distribution system (DWDS) is of primary
importance for human health. High-throughput sequencing has gained more and more …

[HTML][HTML] Succession of bacterial and fungal communities within biofilms of a chlorinated drinking water distribution system

I Douterelo, KE Fish, JB Boxall - Water research, 2018 - Elsevier
Understanding the temporal dynamics of multi-species biofilms in Drinking Water
Distribution Systems (DWDS) is essential to ensure safe, high quality water reaches …

Characterising and understanding the impact of microbial biofilms and the extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) matrix in drinking water distribution systems

KE Fish, AM Osborn, J Boxall - Environmental science: water research …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Drinking water quality deteriorates during transportation through drinking water distribution
systems (DWDS). Microbial activity and ecology, particularly within biofilms that occur on the …