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1 Lundy, L.; Fatta-Kassinos, D.; Slobodnik, J.; Karaolia, P.; Cirka, L.; Kreuzinger, N.; Castiglioni, S.; Bijlsma, L.; Dulio, V.; Deviller, G.; Lai, F. Y.; Alygizakis, N.; Barneo, M.; Baz-Lomba, J. A.; Been, F.; Cichova, M.; Conde-Perez, K.; Covaci, A.; Donner, E.; Ficek, A.; Hassard, F.; Hedstrom, A.; Hernandez, F.; Janska, V.; Jellison, K.; Hofman, J.; Hill, K.; Hong, P.-Y.; Kasprzyk-Hordern, B.; Kolarevic, S.; Krahulec, J.; Lambropoulou, D.; de Llanos, R.; Mackulak, T.; Martinez-Garcia, L.; Martinez, F.; Medema, G.; Micsinai, A.; Myrmel, M.; Nasser, M.; Niederstatter, H.; Nozal, L.; Oberacher, H.; Ocenaskova, V.; Ogorzaly, L.; Papadopoulos, D.; Peinado, B.; Pitkanen, T.; Poza, M.; Rumbo-Feal, S.; Sanchez, M. B.; Szekely, A. J.; Soltysova, A.; Thomaidis, N. S.; Vallejo, J.; van Nuijs, A.; Ware, V.; Viklander, M. 2021. Making waves: collaboration in the time of SARS-CoV-2 - rapid development of an international co-operation and wastewater surveillance database to support public health decision-making. Water Research, 199:117167. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2021.117167]
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ; International cooperation ; Collaboration ; Wastewater treatment plants ; Surveillance systems ; Public health ; COVID-19 ; Databases ; Decision making ; Monitoring ; Sewage
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050412)
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The presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater was first reported in March 2020. Over the subsequent months, the potential for wastewater surveillance to contribute to COVID-19 mitigation programmes has been the focus of intense national and international research activities, gaining the attention of policy makers and the public. As a new application of an established methodology, focused collaboration between public health practitioners and wastewater researchers is essential to developing a common understanding on how, when and where the outputs of this non-invasive community-level approach can deliver actionable outcomes for public health authorities. Within this context, the NORMAN SCORE “SARS-CoV-2 in sewage” database provides a platform for rapid, open access data sharing, validated by the uploading of 276 data sets from nine countries to-date. Through offering direct access to underpinning meta-data sets (and describing its use in data interpretation), the NORMAN SCORE database is a resource for the development of recommendations on minimum data requirements for wastewater pathogen surveillance. It is also a tool to engage public health practitioners in discussions on use of the approach, providing an opportunity to build mutual understanding of the demand and supply for data and facilitate the translation of this promising research application into public health practice.
2 Ali, M.; Hong, P.-Y.; Mishra, H.; Vrouwenvelder, J.; Saikaly, P. E. 2022. Adopting the circular model: opportunities and challenges of transforming wastewater treatment plants into resource recovery factories in Saudi Arabia. Water Reuse, 12(3):346-365. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wrd.2022.038]
Circular economy ; Models ; Resource recovery ; Wastewater treatment plants ; Water reuse ; Freshwater ; Municipal wastewater ; Water resources ; Water scarcity ; Water demand ; Technology ; Sludge ; Seawater ; Bioplastics ; Cellulose ; Ammonium ; Phosphates ; Infrastructure / Saudi Arabia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051475)
https://iwaponline.com/jwrd/article-pdf/12/3/346/1113980/jwrd0120346.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051475.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051475.pdf
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With the ever-growing population, water, energy, and resources need to be used carefully, reused, and renewed. There is an increasing global interest in resource recovery from ‘waste’, which is driven by sustainability and environmental concerns and motivated by the potential for economic benefits. A new era in waste (water) management is being realized where wastewater treatment is becoming part of the circular economy by integrating the production of reusable water with energy and resource recovery. In this new perspective, wastewater is no longer seen as a waste to be treated with energy expenditure but rather as a valuable source of freshwater, energy, nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorous), and materials (e.g., bioplastics, cellulose fibres, and alginate). In this review paper, the conversion of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) into resource recovery factories (RRFs) is presented as one of the ways forward to achieve a circular economy in the water sector for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The advanced technologies, some highlighted in the article, can be installed, integrated, or retrofitted into existing WWTPs to create RRFs enabling the recovery of freshwater, cellulose, alginate-like exopolymers (bio-ALE), and biogas from municipal wastewater achieving climate neutrality, decarbonization, and production of new and promising resources. The article highlights the need for modular, adaptive, and/or decentralized approaches using sustainable technologies such as aerobic granular sludge (AGS)-gravity-driven membrane (AGS-GDM), anaerobic electrochemical membrane bioreactor (AnEMBR), and anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) for conducive localized water reuse. The increase in reuse will reduce the pressure on non-renewable water resources and decrease dependency on the energy-intensive desalination process. This article also outlines the water challenges that are arising in KSA and what are the major water research programmes/themes undertaken to address these major challenges.
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