ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Bathing Water Quality Monitoring Practices in Europe and the United States.
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- Assessing Recreational Safety of Urban Marine Waters: Long-Term Coliform and Enterococcus Analysis.Water environment research : a research publication of the Water Environment Federation · 2026Article
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- Sentinel-2 enabled E. coli and Enterococcus faecal bacteria surveillance in coastal-recreational waters.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Novel High-Throughput Electrochemical Detection of Staphylococcus Aureus, Bacillus Cereus, or Micrococcus Luteus Using AuNPs@TiSmall (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025Article
- Designating river environments as bathing waters: challenges and opportunities at the science-policy interface.Sustainable microbiology · 2025Review
- Assessing the nucleic acid decay of human wastewater markers and enteric viruses in estuarine waters in Sydney, Australia.The Science of the total environment · 2024Article
- Multidrug-ResistantMicroorganisms · 2024Article
- Aptamers: A Cutting-Edge Approach for Gram-Negative Bacterial Pathogen Identification.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Influence of salt and temperature in the growth of pathogenic free-living amoebae.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Diversity of Fecal Indicator Enterococci among Different Hosts: Importance to Water Contamination Source Tracking.Microorganisms · 2023Article
- Microbial and potentially toxic elements risk assessment in high Andean river water based on Monte Carlo simulation, Peru.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Coastal Water Quality Modelling UsingInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Growth and Decay of Fecal Indicator Bacteria and Changes in the Coliform Composition on the Top Surface Sand of Coastal Beaches during the Rainy Season.Microorganisms · 2023Article
- Environmental health aspects and microbial infections of the recreational water : Microbial Infections and Swimming pools.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Combining Contamination Indices and Multivariate Statistical Analysis for Metal Pollution Evaluation during the Last Century in Lacustrine Sediments of Lacu Sărat Lake, Romania.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Waterborne pathogens detection technologies: advances, challenges, and future perspectives.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Review
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Abstract
Many countries including EU Member States (EUMS) and the United States (U.S.) regularly monitor the microbial quality of bathing water to protect public health. This study comprehensively evaluates the EU bathing water directive (BWD) and the U.S. recreational water quality criteria (RWQC) as regulatory frameworks for monitoring microbial quality of bathing water. The major differences between these two regulatory frameworks are the provision of bathing water profiles, classification of bathing sites based on the pollution level, variations in the sampling frequency, accepted probable illness risk, epidemiological studies conducted during the development of guideline values, and monitoring methods. There are also similarities between the two approaches given that both enumerate viable fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) as an index of the potential risk to human health in bathing water and accept such risk up to a certain level. However, enumeration of FIB using methods outlined within these current regulatory frameworks does not consider the source of contamination nor variation in inactivation rates of enteric microbes in different ecological contexts, which is dependent on factors such as temperature, solar radiation, and salinity in various climatic regions within their geographical areas. A comprehensive "tool-box approach", i.e., coupling of FIB and viral pathogen indicators with microbial source tracking for regulatory purposes, offers potential for delivering improved understanding to better protect the health of bathers.
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