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Health effects associated with wastewater treatment, reuse, and disposal
Summary
This annual review summarizes 2018 research on health effects associated with wastewater treatment, water reuse, and sewage disposal, covering microbial risks, chemical contaminants, and emerging pollutants including microplastics. The review highlights ongoing concerns about how wastewater management practices influence both environmental quality and public health.
Abstract This paper highlights the review of scientific literature published in the year 2018 on issues related to health risks associated with human and the general environment on the reuse of wastewater, treatment as well as disposal. The literature review on the above issues divided into number of sections, and these sections include management of wastewater, wastewater reuse with focus on microbial hazards, and chemical hazards. Further, the review also provides some recent research related to wastewater treatment plants, disposal of wastewater, sludge, and biosolids management. Practitioner points This paper highlights the review of scientific literature published in the year 2018. Review provide issues related to health risks associated with human and the general environment on the reuse of wastewater, treatment as well as disposal. Literature review covers selected papers relevant to the topic.
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