Data generators are imperative to support design, management, scenario simulation, risk assessment, and regulatory compliance. Hybrid sewer systems struggle with accurate water quality and quantity monitoring due to variable flow patterns, missing connections, limited monitoring capacity. To accurately regenerate operational data for hybrid sewer system along the sewer shed, a visualized generator was developed to simulate wastewater quantity and quality variations within different scales in the sewer system. The generator was constructed using a multi-level, tree-structured model incorporating various modules, including domestic, industrial, WWTP, and pump stations, to simulate time series variations. A novel instantaneous unit pollutant-hydrograph modeling associated with wastewater conductivity monitoring data was proposed in the generator. The validated generation data of flow, COD, ammonia nitrogen, and phosphate were well-fitted with the full-scale measured data in residential areas, pump stations, and WWTPs. The proposed generator could be used to predict and simulate the dynamic flow and wastewater quality variations at different scale regions in sewer network-wide to support the operation and management of pump stations and WWTPs. The generator modules enable accurate simulation and visualization of water quality and quantity in hybrid sewer system, enhancing the understanding of infiltration, inflow, and pollutant dynamics, especially under challenging conditions like simultaneous RDII and overflow.
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Sci Total Environ
December 2024
Leibniz Universität Hannover, 30459 Hannover, Germany. Electronic address:
With the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE), which according to Larsen et al. (2021), describes the science of linking pathogens and chemicals found in wastewater to population-level health, received an enormous boost worldwide. The basic procedure in WBE is to analyse pathogen concentrations and to relate these measurements to cases from clinical data.
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December 2024
ONHEALTH, IDAEA-CSIC, Jordi Girona 18-26, Barcelona 08034, Spain. Electronic address:
Urban stormwater and rainwater in water-stressed cities serve as critical vectors for the transport and dispersion of pollutants, including very mobile compounds These pollutants, which can be influenced by factors such as land use, rainfall intensity, and urban infrastructure, pose significant risks to both human and environmental health. Although several priority pollutants have traditionally been detected in urban stormwater, little is known about the presence of very mobile compounds that may threaten urban drinking water supplies and pose environmental risks to aquatic species. In this study, 131 urban rain and stormwater samples were collected from three districts of Barcelona (Spain) and analysed for 26 very mobile pollutants that are often overlooked in conventional monitoring efforts.
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January 2025
Department of Systemic Environmental Biotechnology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Permoserstrasse 15 04318 Leipzig, Germany.
Due to accelerating climate change and the need for new development to accommodate population growth, adaptation of urban drainage systems has become a pressing issue in cities. Questions arise whether decentralised urban drainage systems are a better alternative to centralised systems, and whether Nature Based Solutions' (NBS) multifunctionality also brings economic benefits. This research aims to develop spatio-economic scenarios to support cities in increasing their resilience to urban flooding with NBS.
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December 2024
Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, PR China. Electronic address:
At the end of 2022, a sudden policy shift in China triggered an unprecedented COVID-19 outbreak that led to a dramatic increase in the consumption of antipyretics. In this study, the occurrence of the two most commonly used antipyretics (ibuprofen and paracetamol) and their metabolites were analyzed in the wastewater of nine major cities in China, covering the periods before, during, and after the policy change. The remarkable surge after the policy change for ibuprofen and paracetamol reached 67 times (in Nanning) and 311 times (in Lanzhou) compared to pre-pandemic levels, respectively.
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December 2024
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA27AY, UK; SWING - Department of Built Environment, Oslo Metropolitan Uni., St Olavs Plass, Oslo 0130, Norway. Electronic address:
Urban water systems receive and emit antimicrobial chemicals, resistant bacterial strains, and resistance genes (ARGs), thus representing "antimicrobial hotspots". Currently, regional environmental risk assessment (ERA) is carried out using drug consumption data and threshold concentrations derived based on chemical-specific minimum inhibitory concentration values. A legislative proposal by the European Commission released in 2022 addresses the need to include selected ARGs besides the chemical concentration-based ERAs.
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