Beyond Conveyance: Assessing the Contribution of Process-Critical Bacteria from Urban Sewer Systems to Wastewater Treatment Plants
The sewer microbiome is known to be the main source of process-critical bacteria involved in nitrogen and phosphorus removal in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and is thus crucial for the assembly of activated sludge (AS) microbial communities. However, the extent of these bacterial loads arriving at WWTPs currentl...