Journal
WATER RESEARCH
Volume 42, Issue 17, Pages 4439-4448Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2008.07.037
Keywords
Microbial indicators; Enteroviruses; Cryptosporidium; Relationships between microorganisms in regenerated effluents; Microbial quality in reclaimed water
Funding
- Ministerio de Medio Ambiente-Spain [A102/2007/1-04.2]
- Ministerio Educacion y Ciencia [CTM 2005-02513]
- Generalitat de Catalunya [2005SGR00592]
- Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia [BES-2003-0563]
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Four water reclamation facilities in north-eastern Spain were monitored over 2 years to determine the occurrence and concentrations of a set of microbial indicators (total coliforms, Escherichia coli, enterococci, spores of sulphite reducing clostridia, somatic coliphages, F-specific RNA phages, phages infecting Bacteroides fragilis strain RYC2056 and phages infecting Bacteroides tethaiotaomicron strain GA-17), and two selected pathogens (cytopathogenic enteroviruses and viable Cryptosporidium oocysts). The indicator (survival) and index (presence) functions of the various indicators tested were evaluated through the wastewater treatments. The inactivation pattern of all groups of bacteriophages tested was closer to the inactivation of enteroviruses than to the inactivation of the conventional bacterial indicators tested. The inactivation of sulfite reducing clostridia spores and bacteriophages more closely approximates the reduction of viable Cryptosporidium than do the conventional bacterial indicators. We observed neither index functions nor a predictive relationship between any of microbial indicators and viable Cryptosporidiurn oocysts. In contrast, several regression models (r > 0.6) and discriminant functions (67-88% well classified samples) based mostly on numbers of bacteriophages were able to predict both the presence and concentrations of enteroviruses. A combination of both bacterial and bacteriophage indicators seem to be the best choice for ensuring the microbial quality of reclaimed water. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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