Climate warming, environmental degradation and pollution as drivers of antibiotic resistance

Environmental Pollution, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 346, С. 123649 - 123649

Опубликована: Фев. 23, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Mitigating flash flooding in the city: Drain or harvest?

Water Science & Technology Water Supply, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 24(3), С. 812 - 834

Опубликована: Фев. 10, 2024

Abstract Rainwater harvesting (RWH) is principally based on collecting, storing, and using rainfall which would otherwise be lost as surface runoff. Runoff threatens in several ways: accelerating erosion, intensifying flooding, reducing groundwater recharge. Therefore, purposely retaining the urban water cycle rather than draining has positive impacts designing sustainable cities. This work presents a proposal how to avoid flooding cities by systematically harvesting, storing rainwater, it for multiple purposes. The concept of RWH presented here potential radical innovation solve social, economic, environmental challenges associated with flash flooding. Each residence regarded production unit. Depending climatic conditions, people can meet their needs local household basis, or alternatively use piped complement. By infiltrating locally recharged downstream wells are more productive. implementation this idea involves entrepreneurial agency that existing structures, adapting them. Clearly, social entrepreneurship expected catalyse realization innovation, also rural areas. It about mobilizing ideas, capacities, resources create transformation.

Язык: Английский

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Municipal wastewater treatment plant showing a potential reservoir for clinically relevant MDR bacterial strains co-occurrence of ESBL genes and integron-integrase genes

Journal of Environmental Management, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 351, С. 119938 - 119938

Опубликована: Янв. 2, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Wastewater based epidemiology as a public health resource in low- and middle-income settings.

Environmental Pollution, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 351, С. 124045 - 124045

Опубликована: Апрель 25, 2024

In the face of emerging and re-emerging diseases, novel innovative approaches to population scale surveillance are necessary for early detection quantification pathogens. The last decade has seen rapid development wastewater environmental (WES) address public health challenges, which led establishment wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) being deployed monitor a range hazards. WBE exploits fact that excretions secretions from urine, gut discharged in wastewater, particularly sewage, such sampling sewage systems provides an warning system disease outbreaks by providing indication pathogen circulation. While been mainly used locations with networked systems, here we consider its value less connected populations typical lower-income settings, assess opportunity afforded pit latrines sample communities localities. We propose where struggle access diagnostic facilities, despite several additional unconnected remains important means large relatively cost-effective manner.

Язык: Английский

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“The potential contribution of aquatic wildlife to antibiotic resistance dissemination in freshwater ecosystems: A review”

Environmental Pollution, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 350, С. 123894 - 123894

Опубликована: Апрель 8, 2024

Antibiotic resistance (AR) is one of the major health threats our time. The presence antibiotics in environment and their continuous release from sewage treatment plants, chemical manufacturing plants animal husbandry, agriculture aquaculture, result constant selection pressure on microbial organisms. This leads to emergence, mobilization, horizontal gene transfer a antibiotic genes, resistant bacteria mobile genetic elements. Under these circumstances, aquatic wildlife impacted all compartments, including freshwater organisms with partially impermeable microbiota. In this narrative review, recent advancements terms occurrence genes plant effluents source compared have been examined, wildlife, as well experiments exposure. Based current state knowledge, we propose hypothesis that may play crucial role dissemination within environment. Specifically, suggest high bacterial density tissues, which are isolated external environment, such fishes amphibians, could potentially be reservoirs amplifiers favoring increase abundance bacteria. Potential avenues for further research (trophic transfer, innovative exposure experiment) action (biodiversity eco-engineering) finally proposed.

Язык: Английский

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Greenhouse gas emissions from sanitation and wastewater management systems: a review

Journal of Water and Climate Change, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 15(4), С. 1797 - 1819

Опубликована: Фев. 16, 2024

ABSTRACT There is growing awareness of the contribution sanitation systems to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions globally, and hence climate change. However, there a lack comprehensive insight into emission sources disaggregated across entire chain. This study presents detailed review analysis from both sewer-based non-sewered systems, with focus on fugitive those related system operation. Our highlights evidence gaps in several areas literature: quantifying particular technologies like biogas toilets composting toilets; oversight contextual factors such as environmental conditions infrastructure operational status GHG accounting; dearth holistic studies chain comparable solid waste management sector; inconsistencies measurement methods. By pinpointing these gaps, this provides robust reference for planning mitigation strategies wastewater emphasizes urgent need incorporation climate-smart solutions sector, e.g. design new retrofitted infrastructure, aims bridge sustainable development goals action.

Язык: Английский

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Controlling stormwater at the source: dawn of a new era in integrated water resources management

Applied Water Science, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 14(12)

Опубликована: Ноя. 25, 2024

Abstract Published results on rainwater management systems revealed a lack of holistic science-based design principles. A new approach to is proposed. Its necessity and feasibility are discussed. It demonstrated that quantitatively harvesting rainfall infiltrating fraction should be mandatory. Thus, the primary site-specific parameter intensity rainfall. Clearly, harvested used everywhere as valuable resource. Under arid semi-arid conditions large tanks maximize water storage for long dry season while under humid same helps minimize frequency emptying avoid flooding. The separates (and stormwater) from sewage has potential maintain natural hydrological cycle in urban areas despite urbanization. In already crowded slums, (RWH) can also restore cycle. advocates decentralized RWH infrastructures harvest, infiltrate, store individual residences, piping overflows semi-centralized cluster-scale tanks. Rooting integrated resource appears missing puzzle in: (i) restoring where it been disturbed (landscape restoration), (ii) avoiding flooding, mitigating soil erosion. This essential sustainable development.

Язык: Английский

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An unignorable human health risk posed by antibiotic resistome and microbiome in urban rivers: Insights from Beijing, China

Environmental Research, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 120752 - 120752

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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A comparative life cycle analysis of Sol-Char and anaerobic digestion sanitation systems

The Science of The Total Environment, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 964, С. 178622 - 178622

Опубликована: Янв. 25, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Thermochemical treatment of human excreta to energy and biochar: recent advances, applications, and future directions

Elsevier eBooks, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 329 - 343

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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