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Review
. 2016 Oct;88(10):1823-55.
doi: 10.2175/106143016X14696400495776.

Health Effects Associated with Wastewater Treatment, Reuse, and Disposal

Xiaoyan Qu  1 , Yuanyuan Zhao, Ruoren Yu, Yuan Li, Charles Falzone, Gregory Smith, Keisuke Ikehata
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Review

Health Effects Associated with Wastewater Treatment, Reuse, and Disposal

Xiaoyan Qu et al. Water Environ Res. 2016 Oct.

Abstract

A review of the literature published in 2015 on topics relating to public and environmental health risks associated with wastewater treatment, reuse, and disposal is presented. This review is divided into the following sections: wastewater management, microbial hazards, chemical hazards, wastewater treatment, wastewater reuse, agricultural reuse in different regions, greywater reuse, wastewater disposal, hospital wastewater, industrial wastewater, and sludge and biosolids.

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