Temporal and Spatial Evolution Characteristics of Pollutants in Wastewater
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water and One Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2024 | Viewed by 137
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wastewater-based epidemiology; illicit drugs; emerging contaminants; health risk assessments; biomarkers
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Interests: environmental health; environmental toxicology; environmental epidemiology
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Interests: wastewater analysis; nanobiosensor; environmental microrganism; point-of-care test; heavy metals; isothermal amplification of nucleic acids; aptasensor; CRISPR
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wastewater has been widely known as a source of characteristics pollutants, such as illicit and legal drugs, alcohol, tobacco, personal care products, emerging contaminants, resistance genes, pathogens, etc. Characteristic pollutants in wastewater offer rapid and precise spatial–temporal insights into chemical consumption, use, exposure, release of chemicals or health risk and early warning of infectious disease spread and antibiotic resistance. There have been thousands of wastewater studies on characteristic-pollutant monitoring published since 2020. Despite this success, many challenges remain in the post-COVID era, there is a compelling need to expand the temporal and spatial evolution characteristics of pollutants in wastewater across a variety of communities, spanning from local neighborhoods to entire countries. This expansion should involve the comprehensive assessment of both chemical substances and biological organisms, contributing to a more robust understanding of public health and human well-being.
The primary objective of this research topic is to concentrate on the temporal and spatial evolution characteristics of pollutants in wastewater. Emphasis is placed on exploring novel applications in diseases and exposure early-warning systems, conducting temporal–spatial studies to scrutinize patterns of health risk and refining analysis methods to minimize uncertainties. This Special Issue welcomes both original research papers and systematic reviews on various aspects of characteristic pollutants in wastewater. Furthermore, the research goals encompass a broader perspective, including public health assessments, the development of new analytical methods for detecting emerging contaminants, evaluating the stability of existing characteristic pollutants in wastewater, etc. We also encourage the submission of manuscripts that focus on COVID-19 and other pathogens in wastewater.
Dr. Peng Du
Dr. Zhenglu Wang
Dr. Kang Mao
Dr. Zeqiong Xu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- temporal and spatial evolution
- emerging contaminants
- wastewater analysis
- pathogens
- health risk
