Impact of drinking water treatment and distribution on the microbiome continuum : an ecological disturbance's perspective

• Main Authors: Zhang, Ya, Oh, Seungdae, Liu, Wen‐Tso
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Engineering::Civil engineering; Ecological Disturbance; Microbiome Continuum
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/79712; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49046
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

While microbes are known to be present at different stages of a drinking water system, their potential functions and ability to grow in such systems are poorly understood. In this study, we demonstrated that treatment and distribution processes could be viewed as ecological disturbances exhibited ov...