Drinking water utilities and researchers continue to rely on the century-old heterotrophic
plate counts (HPC) method for routine assessment of general microbiological water quality …

Ensuring safe and effective water treatment, distribution, and reuse requires robust methods
for characterizing and monitoring waterborne microbes. Methods widely used today can be …

Despite the widely observed predominance of Cand. Patescibacteria in subsurface
communities, their input source and ecophysiology are poorly understood. Here we study …

Abstract Changes in bacterial concentration and composition in drinking water during
distribution are often attributed to biological (in) stability. Here we assessed temporal …

Riverbank filtration has gained increasing importance for balancing rising groundwater
demands and securing drinking water supplies. While microbial communities are the pillar of …

Anomaly detection is the process of identifying unexpected data samples in datasets.
Automated anomaly detection is either performed using supervised machine learning …

The world is currently facing a serious health burden of waterborne diseases, including
diarrhea, gastrointestinal diseases, and systemic illnesses. The control of these infectious …

Microbial regrowth during drinking water distribution can result in a variety of problems such
as a deviating taste and odor, and may even pose a risk to public health. Frequent …

As microbial contamination is persistent within the food and bioindustries and foodborne
infections are still a significant cause of death, the detection, monitoring, and …

Population heterogeneity is omnipresent in all bioprocesses even in homogenous
environments. Its origin, however, is only so well understood that potential strategies like bet …