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ReviewFrontiers in public health2026

Pathway-driven assessment of wastewater contamination in drinking water systems: integrating AI with public health risk.

Moharana Choudhury, Rohit Kumar, Atin Kumar, Hari Prasad Agarwal, Rakesh Choudhary, Omid Reza Baghchesaraei, Sushobhan Majumdar, Kailash Rajaram Harne, Ajay Kumar

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Review in Frontiers in public health, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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Authors and funding

9 authors.

Moharana ChoudhuryEnvironmental Research and Management Division, Voice of Environment (VoE), Guwahati, Assam, India.
Rohit KumarFaculty of Agricultural Sciences, GLA University, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Atin KumarSchool of Agriculture, Uttaranchal University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India.
Hari Prasad AgarwalDepartment of Architecture, The Assam Royal Global University, Guwahati, Assam, India.
Rakesh ChoudharyDepartment of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India.
Omid Reza BaghchesaraeiHDR Graduate, Centre for Infrastructure Engineering, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Sushobhan MajumdarDepartment of Geography, Pandit Raghunath Murmu Smriti Mahavidyalaya, Bankura, West Bengal, India.
Kailash Rajaram HarneDepartment of Civil Engineering, Netaji Subhas University of Technology, New Delhi, India.
Ajay KumarDepartment of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Wastewater contamination in drinking water systems arises from failures across interconnected components. Globally, an estimated 2.2 billion people lack safely managed drinking water services, with contamination risks persisting in regulated systems. Despite advances in treatment technologies, contamination events continue due to infrastructure deterioration, hydraulic disturbances, and cross-connections, particularly in rapidly urbanizing and resource-constrained regions. A critical limitation of conventional monitoring is its reliance on periodic sampling and laboratory analysis, which often fails to capture transient contamination events and delays response. To address this challenge, artificial intelligence (AI) enables data-driven surveillance through sensor networks, anomaly detection, and predictive modeling. Machine learning and deep learning approaches can identify multivariate contamination patterns, with several studies reporting R

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Artificial IntelligenceDrinking WaterEnvironmental MonitoringPublic HealthWastewaterHumansRisk AssessmentDrinking WaterWastewateranomaly detectionartificial intelligencedrinking water systemsmachine learningpublic health risksensor-based monitoringwastewater contaminationwater quality monitoring

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PMID42491056
PMCPMC13375850

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