Microbial hazards in irrigation water: standards, norms, and testing to manage use of water in fresh produce primary production

M Uyttendaele, LA Jaykus, P Amoah… - … Reviews in Food …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Accessibility to abundant sources of high‐quality water is integral to the production of safe
and wholesome fresh produce. However, access to safe water is becoming increasingly …

Enteric pathogen reduction targets for onsite non-potable water systems: A critical evaluation

MA Jahne, ME Schoen, A Kaufmann, BM Pecson… - Water research, 2023 - Elsevier
Onsite non-potable water systems (ONWS) collect and treat local source waters for non-
potable end uses such as toilet flushing and irrigation. Quantitative microbial risk …

Seasonal distribution of antibiotic resistance genes in the Yellow River water and tap water, and their potential transmission from water to human

Q Yu, T Feng, J Yang, W Su, R Zhou, Y Wang… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
The prevalence and transmission of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and opportunistic
pathogens in water environments can pose great threat to public health. However, the …

A global review of the microbiological quality and potential health risks associated with roof-harvested rainwater tanks

K Hamilton, B Reyneke, M Waso, T Clements… - NPJ Clean …, 2019 - nature.com
A broad body of literature has been published regarding roof-harvested rainwater quality
around the world. In particular, the presence of fecal indicator bacteria and pathogenic …

Domestic rainwater harvesting: microbial and chemical water quality and point-of-use treatment systems

M De Kwaadsteniet, PH Dobrowsky… - Water, Air, & Soil …, 2013 - Springer
Quality of the essential commodity, water, is being compromised by contaminants originating
from anthropogenic sources, industrial activities, agriculture, etc. Water scarcity and severe …

A review of roof harvested rainwater in Australia

CE Chubaka, H Whiley, JW Edwards… - … of environmental and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
To address concern regarding water sustainability, the Australian Federal Government and
many state governments have implemented regulatory mechanisms and incentives to …

A review on physicochemical and microbiological contamination of roof-harvested rainwater in urban areas

AS Sánchez, E Cohim, RA Kalid - Sustainability of Water Quality and …, 2015 - Elsevier
This work proposes to consider the quality of roof-collected rainwater as the sum of three
main stages. In the first one, rainfall washes out the urban atmosphere and scavenges …

Review of Campylobacter spp. in drinking and environmental waters

T Pitkänen - Journal of microbiological methods, 2013 - Elsevier
Consumption of contaminated drinking water is a significant cause of Campylobacter
infections. Drinking water contamination is known to result from septic seepage and …

Risk-based enteric pathogen reduction targets for non-potable and direct potable use of roof runoff, stormwater, and greywater

ME Schoen, NJ Ashbolt, MA Jahne, J Garland - Microbial risk analysis, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents risk-based enteric pathogen log reduction targets for non-potable and
potable uses of a variety of alternative source waters (ie, locally-collected greywater, roof …

Opportunistic pathogens in roof-captured rainwater samples, determined using quantitative PCR

W Ahmed, H Brandes, P Gyawali, JPS Sidhu, S Toze - Water Research, 2014 - Elsevier
In this study, quantitative PCR (qPCR) was used for the detection of four opportunistic
bacterial pathogens in water samples collected from 72 rainwater tanks in Southeast …