Thematics
Fate of contaminants of emerging concern and antimicrobial resistance in urban wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs)
- “New” organic contaminants of emerging concern in wastewater
- Transformation products of organic contaminants
- Microbiome and resistome in wastewater
- Known and emerging pathogens in wastewater effluents
- Fate of non-cell associated antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in wastewater
- Assessment of antibiotic effects on ARGs persistence and dissemination at WWTP-relevant concentrations
Contaminants of emerging concern and antimicrobial resistance: From urban wastewater treatment plants to the environment
- Behaviour, transmission and fate in receiving environments
- Uptake, translocation and metabolisation in crops
- Fate prediction using modeling approaches
Bioassays/tests to support urban treated wastewater quality management
- Effect-based bioassays as a component of reuse schemes
- Whole Effluent Toxicity testing
- Standardization of sampling, analytical protocols, and use of different bioassays for common endpoints
- Stress measurements and effects related to ARGs dissemination
- Phytotoxic effects on crops irrigated with treated wastewater
- Effects on the nutritional value of crops irrigated with treated wastewater
- Human health aspects
Technologies to meet urban treated wastewater reuse characteristics
- Impact of WWTP technologies to address reuse challenges
- Disinfection processes and technologies to address reuse challenges
- Emerging technologies to address reuse challenges
- Large (real-scale) wastewater reuse project
Risk assessment and policy development
- Data management and prioritisation
- Risk assessment: approaches, frameworks and sensitivity analysis
- Human- and environmental-based trigger values
- Determination of targets and cut-off values for qPCR-based diagnostic evaluation of ARGs in effluents
- Inclusion of molecular biological tools and bioassays in legislation
- International and national policy developments
- Communication strategies towards an improved risk assessment and policy development