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ReviewACS environmental Au2021

Enabling Water Reuse by Treatment of Reverse Osmosis Concentrate: The Promise of Constructed Wetlands.

Rachel C Scholes, Angela N Stiegler, Cayla M Anderson, David L Sedlak

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Review in ACS environmental Au, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Comparative assessment of treatment technologies for minimizing reverse osmosis concentrate volume for industrial applications: A review.Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research · 2024
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  7. Green Dialysis: Let Us Talk about Dialysis Fluid.Kidney & blood pressure research · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Rachel C ScholesDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5450-8377
Angela N StieglerDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.
Cayla M AndersonDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.
David L SedlakDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1686-8464

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As more cities experience water stress, the use of reverse osmosis (RO) membranes for wastewater treatment and reuse will expand. The concentrated waste stream resulting from RO treatment can pose chronic ecotoxicity risks if discharged to surface waters or shallow coastal ecosystems. Most existing RO concentrate treatment technologies are cost prohibitive, but constructed wetlands hold promise as a viable multibenefit solution because they have the potential to provide simultaneous treatment of nutrients, metals, and trace organic contaminants at a relatively low cost. They also are popular with the public. A handful of water-stressed cities have already begun experimenting with constructed wetlands for RO concentrate treatment. However, further research is needed to reduce the land area needed for treatment and increase the reliability of constructed wetland systems.

Identifiers

PMID37101934
PMCPMC10114854

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