Wastewater treatment for reuse in agriculture: Prospects and challenges

HE Al-Hazmi, A Mohammadi, A Hejna, J Majtacz… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sustainable water recycling is an urgent concern, considering water scarcity due to climate
change, and increase water consumption through human activities. In 2015, United Nations …

The novel SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: possible environmental transmission, detection, persistence and fate during wastewater and water treatment

S Mohapatra, NG Menon, G Mohapatra… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The contagious SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for COVID-19 disease, has infected over 27
million people across the globe within a few months. While literature on SARS-CoV-2 …

[HTML][HTML] Strategies for mitigating chlorinated disinfection byproducts in wastewater treatment plants

S Albolafio, A Marín, A Allende, F García… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
A case study of 15 wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) at a full-scale was assessed for the
risks of disinfection byproduct (DBP) formation, mainly the regulated trihalomethanes …

Occurrence of various viruses and recent evidence of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater systems

W Ali, H Zhang, Z Wang, C Chang, A Javed… - Journal of hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Viruses are omnipresent and persistent in wastewater, which poses a risk to human health.
In this review, we summarise the different qualitative and quantitative methods for virus …

[HTML][HTML] Capsid integrity quantitative PCR to determine virus infectivity in environmental and food applications–a systematic review

M Leifels, D Cheng, E Sozzi, DC Shoults, S Wuertz… - Water Research X, 2021 - Elsevier
Capsid integrity quantitative PCR (qPCR), a molecular detection method for infectious
viruses combining azo dye pretreatment with qPCR, has been widely used in recent years; …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring of human enteric virus and coliphages throughout water reuse system of wastewater treatment plants to irrigation endpoint of leafy greens

P Truchado, A Garre, MI Gil, PJ Simón-Andreu… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
One solution to current water scarcity is the reuse of treated wastewater. Water reuse
systems have to be examined as a whole, including the efficacy of water-reclamation …

Variations among viruses in influent water and effluent water at a wastewater plant over one year as assessed by quantitative PCR and metagenomics

H Wang, J Neyvaldt, L Enache, P Sikora… - Applied and …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Influent wastewater and effluent wastewater at the Rya treatment plant in Gothenburg,
Sweden, were continuously monitored for enteric viruses by quantitative PCR (qPCR) during …

Monitoring human viral pathogens reveals potential hazard for treated wastewater discharge or reuse

E Cuevas-Ferrando, A Pérez-Cataluña, I Falcó… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Wastewater discharge to the environment or its reuse after sanitization poses a concern for
public health given the risk of transmission of human viral diseases. However, estimating the …

[HTML][HTML] Antiviral capacity of sanitizers against infectious viruses in process water from the produce industry under batch and continuous conditions

I Falcó, JA Tudela, N Hernández, A Pérez-Cataluña… - Food Control, 2023 - Elsevier
The presence of human enteric viruses in produce has extensively been reported. However,
the significance of the quality of process water (PW) used by the produce industry and the …

Interlaboratory comparative study to detect potentially infectious human enteric viruses in influent and effluent waters

W Randazzo, J Piqueras, Z Evtoski, G Sastre… - Food and environmental …, 2019 - Springer
Wastewater represents the main reusable water source after being adequately sanitized by
wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). In this sense, only bacterial quality indicators are …