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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
卷 45, 期 4, 页码 1205-1214出版社
AMER SOC AGRONOMY
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2015.11.0560
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- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) as part of the Vienna Doctoral Programme on Water Resource Systems [W1219-N22]
- FWF [P22309-B20, P23900-B22]
- research project Groundwater Resource Systems Vienna as part of the (New) Danube-Lower Lobau Network Project in cooperation with Vienna Waterworks [LE07-13]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P 22309] Funding Source: researchfish
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P22309] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Protection of drinking water resources requires addressing all relevant fecal pollution sources in the considered catchment. A freely available simulation tool, QMRAcatch, was recently developed to simulate concentrations of fecal indicators, a genetic microbial source tracking (MST) marker, and intestinal pathogens in water resources and to conduct a quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA). At the same time, QMRAcatch was successfully applied to a region of the Danube River in Austria, focusing on municipal wastewater emissions. Herein, we describe extension of its application to a Danube River floodplain, keeping the focus on fecal sources of human origin. QMRAcatch was calibrated to match measured human-associated MST marker concentrations for a dry year and a wet year. Appropriate performance characteristics of the human-associated MST assay were proven by simulating correct and false-positive marker concentrations, as determined in human and animal feces. With the calibrated tool, simulated and measured enterovirus concentrations in the rivers were compared. Finally, the calibrated tool allowed demonstrating that 4.5 log(10) enterovirus and 6.6 log(10) norovirus reductions must be achieved to convert current surface water to safe drinking water that complies with a health-based target of 10(-4) infections person(-1) yr(-1). Simulations of the low-and high-pollution scenarios showed that the required viral reductions ranged from 0 to 8 log(10). This study has implications for water managers with interests in assessing robust catchment protection measures and water treatment criteria by considering the fate of fecal pollution from its sources to the point of abstraction.
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