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Rifaat Abdel Wahaab, Ahmed Salah and Thomas Grischek
To meet the increasing water demand and to provide safe drinking water in Egypt, the Holding Company for Water and Wastewater (HCWW) and its affiliated companies have started a program to develop riverbank filtration (RBF) sites in all Egyptian governora...
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Dorota Papciak, Barbara Tchórzewska-Cieslak, Andzelika Domon, Anna Wojtus, Jakub Zywiec and Janusz Konkol
The article presents changes in the quality of tap water depending on time spent in installation and its impact on the creation of biofilms on various materials (polyethylene (PE), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), chrome-nickel steel and galvanized steel). For ...
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Peter Jarvis, Olivier Autin, Emma H. Goslan and Francis Hassard
Ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (UV-LEDs) have recently emerged as a viable technology for water disinfection. However, the performance of the technology in full-scale drinking-water treatment systems remains poorly characterised. Furthermore, current ...
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Long Chen, Feng Li, Wenrou Huang, Zhi Li and Mingguang Chen
A large fraction of mercury contaminant in the environment is from industrial production, and it potentially impairs human health once entering the food chain. Millions of people reside in the Pearl River Delta region, and water quality in the estuary di...
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Xiaogang Chen, Qi Ye, Jinzhou Du and Jing Zhang
Nutrients and organic pollutants transported by submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) play a significant role in controlling water quality, and can lead to the concerned deleterious effects on marine ecosystems. Subterranean estuaries are complicated hab...
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Qiming Wang, Qiang Chai, Xuecheng Dou, Cai Zhao, Wen Yin, Hanting Li and Jingui Wei
Agricultural soil microorganisms play a crucial role in farmland ecosystems and are integral to the material cycle in these environments. The composition and abundance of soil microorganisms are influenced by agronomic measures that alter the soil microe...
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Susana Citlaly Gaucin Gutiérrez, Juan Antonio Rojas-Contreras, David Enrique Zazueta-Álvarez, Efren Delgado, Perla Guadalupe Vázquez Ortega, Hiram Medrano Roldán and Damián Reyes Jáquez
Sulphur plays a fundamental role in the biological processes of chemolithotrophic microorganisms. Due to the redox characteristics of sulphur, microorganisms use it for metabolic processes. Such is the case of the dissimilatory processes in the anaerobic...
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Tânia Luz Palma and Maria Clara Costa
17a-ethinylestradiol (EE2), a synthetically derived analogue of endogenous estrogen, is widely employed as a hormonal contraceptive and is recognized as a highly hazardous emerging pollutant, causing acute and chronic toxic effects on both aquatic and te...
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Rafal Górski, Robert Rosa, Alicja Niewiadomska, Agnieszka Wolna-Maruwka and Anna Plaza
In modern agriculture, more and more attention is being paid to the use of microorganisms that can increase crop productivity and quality even under adverse weather conditions. Due to the declining biodiversity of crops and the occurrence of soil erosion...
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Haining Wu, Shufang Chen, Zhipeng Huang, Tangwei Huang, Xiumei Tang, Liangqiong He, Zhong Li, Jun Xiong, Ruichun Zhong, Jing Jiang, Zhuqiang Han and Ronghua Tang
The intercropping of peanuts and sugarcane is a sustainable planting model that deserves in-depth research. For this study, two variables, i.e., intercropping status (peanut monocropping or sugarcane/peanut intercropping) and the level of nitrogen fertil...
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