This work is supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2022YFC3203203);the Outstanding Youth Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province(No.2023-JC-JQ-36);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.52300121).
As a byproduct of water treatment,drinking water treatment aluminum sludge(DWTAS)has challenges related to imperfect treatment and disposal,which has caused potential harm to human health and the environment.In this p...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.52025102,52192682,and 52200057);the Jiangsu Funding Program for Excellent Postdoctoral Talent(China)(No.2022ZB35).
Class 1 integrons are vital mobile genetic elements involved in the environmental transmission of antibiotic resistance genes(ARGs).However,knowledge about the diversity and abundance of class 1 integrons and gene cas...
This research was undertaken,in part,thanks to funding from the Canada Research Chairs(CRC)Program;It was also supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada(NSERC)and the Regional Municipality of Waterloo(ROW),Waterloo,Ontario,Canada[Agreement#081291].
Although human health impacts of microplastics are not well understood,concern regarding chemical contaminants retained on or within them is growing.Drinking water providers are increasingly asked about these risks,bu...
supported by the Funds for National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.52070183,52322001);the International Cooperation and Exchange of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51820105011);the Program of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Rapid advancement in aerospace technology has successfully enabled long-term life and economic activities in space,particularly in Low Earth Orbit(LEO),extending up to 2000 km from the mean sea level.However,the susta...
funded by the Beijing Natural Science Foundation(China)(No.JQ21032);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.52200026 and 52200027).
In this study,samples were taken from three locations,upstream to downstream,along the central route project of the China South to North Water Diversion(SNWD)scheme in summer and winter.These were used to reveal the v...
supported by:US Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture,Agriculture and Food Research Initiative,Water for Food Production Systems(No.2018-68011-28371);National Science Foundation(USA)(Nos.1936928,2112533);US Department of Agriculture’National Institute of Food and Agriculture(No.2020-67021-31526);US Environmental Protection Agency(No.840080010).
Chlorine-based disinfection is ubiquitous in conventional drinking water treatment (DWT) and serves to mitigate threats of acute microbial disease caused by pathogens that may be present in source water. An important ...
The accessibility of tetracycline resistance gene (tetG) into the pores of activated carbon (AC), as well as the impact of the pore size distribution (PSD) of AC on the uptake capacity of tetG, were investigated using...
Dissolved organic nitrogen(DON) has attracted much attention in drinking water treatment due to its potential to produce nitrogenous disinfection by-products(N-DBPs). This work was designed to explore the transformati...
supported by Senior Research Fellow Scheme of Research Grant Council(Grant No.SRFS2021-7S04)in Hong Kong and Seed Fund for Translational;Applied Research at The University of Hong Kong,China(Grant No.104006007).
In recent decades,nanofiltration(NF)is considered as a promising separation technique to produce drinking water from different types of water source.In this paper,we comprehensively reviewed the progress of NFbased dr...
supported by a Discovery Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada of Canada(Project#326415-07)and a grant from the Western Economic Diversification Canada(Projects#6578,6807,and 000012711).Prof.Giesy was supported by the Canada Research Chair program,and the 2014“High Level Foreign Experts”(#GDT20143200016)program funded by the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs,the P.R.China to Nanjing University,the Einstein Professor Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship in the School of Biological Sciences of the University of Hong Kong.Prof.Peng was supported by a Discovery Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada of Canada(Project#RGPIN-2018-06511)and University of Toronto Start-up Funds.
Brominated disinfection by-products(Br-DBPs)can form during the chlorination of drinking water in treatment plants(DWTP).Regulations exist for a small subset of Br-DBPs;however,hundreds of unregulated Br-DBPs have bee...