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Charles P. Humphrey, Jr., Nicole Lyons, Ryan Bond, Eban Bean, Michael O?Driscoll and Avian White
Urban runoff from the Boat House Creek watershed was suspected as a main delivery mechanism for fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) to the lower White Oak River Estuary in coastal North Carolina, but the dominant source of waste (animal or human) was unknown....
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Imokhai T. Tenebe, Eunice O. Babatunde, Chinonso C. Eddy-Ugorji, Egbe-Etu E. Etu, Nkpa M. Ogarekpe, Chikodinaka V. Ekeanyanwu, Oladapo A. Diekola, Oluwarotimi S. Oladele and Obiora B. Ezeudu
Sachet water (SW) is a major source of drinking in most Nigerian homes, thus making it a possible conveyance medium for health risks due to contamination if persist rather than for replenishment of the body. This study collected SW from three busy neighb...
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Tao Huang, Wilfred M. Wollheim and Stephen H. Jones
Fecal contamination is a significant source of water quality impairment globally. Aquatic ecosystems can provide an important ecosystem service of fecal contamination removal. Understanding the processes that regulate the removal of fecal contamination a...
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Chelsea J. Weiskerger and Mantha S. Phanikumar
Degradation of water quality in recreational areas can be a substantial public health concern. Models can help beach managers make contemporaneous decisions to protect public health at recreational areas, via the use of microbial fate and transport simul...
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Alexandra G. Firth, Beth H. Baker, John P. Brooks, Renotta Smith, Raymond B. Iglay and J. Brian Davis
Waterbirds may facilitate pathogen transport in rice fields from autumn to winter. This study investigated pathogen dynamics in two types of rice fields, those considered conventionally managed and a low-external-input-sustainable-agriculture (LEISA) ric...
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Guy Iverson, Christa Sanderford, Charles P. Humphrey, Jr., J. Randall Etheridge and Timothy Kelley
Wastewater contains elevated concentrations of fecal indicator bacteria (FIB). The type of wastewater treatment technology and septic system density may influence the FIB concentration and exports at the watershed scale. The goal of this study was to gai...
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Fritz Petersen and Jason A. Hubbart
Escherichia (E.) coli is a fecal microbe that inhabits the intestines of endotherms (primary habitat) and the natural environment (secondary habitats). Due to prevailing thinking regarding the limited capacity of E. coli to survive in the environment, re...
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Asli Aslan, Zachariah Cole, Anunay Bhattacharya and Oghenekpaobor Oyibo
Providing safe water through water reuse is becoming a global necessity. One concern with water reuse is the introduction of unregulated contaminants to the environment that cannot be easily removed by conventional wastewater treatment plants (WWTP). The...
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Kerry A. Hamilton, Kerrianne Parrish, Warish Ahmed and Charles N. Haas
A study of water quality parameters was conducted in 38 small-scale roof-harvested rainwater barrels (RHRB) located in urban and peri-urban Philadelphia, USA in winter (November?December) 2014 and summer (June?August 2016). Parameters included two fecal ...
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Kiran Kumar Vadde, Jianjun Wang, Long Cao, Tianma Yuan, Alan J. McCarthy and Raju Sekar
Taihu Lake is the third largest freshwater lake in China and serves as a drinking water source for ~30 million residents. Tiaoxi River is one of the main rivers connected to this lake and contributes >60% of the source water. Taihu Lake has been facing v...
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