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Bioaugmentation mitigates the impact of estrogen on coliform-grazing protozoa in slow sand filters
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Haig, Sarah-Jane, Gauchotte-Lindsay, Caroline, Collins, Gavin and Quince, Christopher (2016) Bioaugmentation mitigates the impact of estrogen on coliform-grazing protozoa in slow sand filters. Environmental Science & Technology, 50 (6). pp. 3101-3110. doi:10.1021/acs.est.5b05027 ISSN 0013-936X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5b05027
Abstract
Exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), such as estrogens, is a growing issue for human and animal health as they have been shown to cause reproductive and developmental abnormalities in wildlife and plants and have been linked to male infertility disorders in humans. Intensive farming and weather events, such as storms, flash flooding, and landslides, contribute estrogen to waterways used to supply drinking water. This paper explores the impact of estrogen exposure on the performance of slow sand filters (SSFs) used for water treatment. The feasibility and efficacy of SSF bioaugmentation with estrogen-degrading bacteria was also investigated, to determine whether removal of natural estrogens (estrone, estradiol, and estriol) and overall SSF performance for drinking water treatment could be improved. Strains for SSF augmentation were isolated from full-scale, municipal SSFs so as to optimize survival in the laboratory-scale SSFs used. Concentrations of the natural estrogens, determined by gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (GC-MS), revealed augmented SSFs reduced the overall estrogenic potency of the supplied water by 25% on average and removed significantly more estrone and estradiol than nonaugmented filters. A negative correlation was found between coliform removal and estrogen concentration in nonaugmented filters. This was due to the toxic inhibition of protozoa, indicating that high estrogen concentrations can have functional implications for SSFs (such as impairing coliform removal). Consequently, we suggest that high estrogen concentrations could impact significantly on water quality production and, in particular, on pathogen removal in biological water filters.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Biomedical Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Biomedical Sciences > Microbiology & Infection Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Endocrine disrupting chemicals in water -- Health aspects, Estradiol, Estrogen, Estrone, Drinking water -- Contamination , Water -- Purification -- Filtration | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Environmental Science & Technology | ||||||||
Publisher: | American Chemical Society | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0013-936X | ||||||||
Official Date: | 19 February 2016 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 50 | ||||||||
Number: | 6 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 3101-3110 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1021/acs.est.5b05027 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 January 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 16 January 2017 | ||||||||
Funder: | University of Glasgow. Lord Kelvin/Adam Smith Research scholarship, European Research Council (ERC), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Medical Research Council (Great Britain) (MRC) | ||||||||
Grant number: | 44784 (University of Glasgow), 3C-BIOTECH; 26133 (ERC), EP/H003851/1, EP/J00538X/1 (EPSRC), MR/L015080/1, MR/M50161X (MRC) |
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