Wastewater Surveillance for Covid-19 Management

本書回顧了污水基礎流行病學（WBE）在COVID-19中的最新挑戰和未來展望。本書旨在通過關注最近在監測和處理含有SARS-CoV-RNA的污水方面的科學研究，評估社區中的COVID-19情況，並提供基於WBE的流行病學的新科學理解，從而改善對COVID-19在污水中的監測。它還提供了對於分析和解釋污水中SARS-CoV-2病毒RNA計數的有效檢測方法的全球視角，並預測了污水對感染率可能產生的影響。

讀者將在本書中找到來自法國、印度和東南亞的案例研究，這些案例研究通過污水監測對SARS-CoV-2進行了非侵入性的基於人口的監測，並將更多了解病毒在不同環境中的行為和傳播。本書還討論了膜技術在從水中去除病毒方面的重要性，以及用於在活性污泥和污水中識別、定量和表徵SARS-CoV-2的先進技術。

本書為微生物學家、環境工程師、數據科學家和土木工程師等研究人員提供了一個良好的界面，強調與當前監測方法相關的問題。此外，它還通過提高對污水監測和準確監測COVID-19的潛在新方法的認識，鼓勵研究人員和政策制定者。

Dr. Manish Kumar is a Distinguished Professor at the School of Engineering and Sciences, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico; & at UPES, Dehradun, India. He also serves as an Institute Professor (Visiting) at Chuo University, Japan. Previously, he served IIT Gandhinagar (India), & Tezpur University (India). He also worked at University of Nebraska Lincoln, US; Kunsan University, South Korea; Uppsala University, Sweden. His research aims to broaden the understanding of fate, transport, and remediation of geogenic, microbial and emerging contaminants.

Prof. Kumar earned Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, Japan, and supervised ten Ph.D. thesis and >50 master dissertations, contributed >200 international journal articles, cited >10,000 times, leading to a H-index >50 and i-10>175. He featured in the list of the top 2% of researchers in the world (2019-2023). He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). He renders editorial services to severalQ-1 journals of the American Chemical Society, Elsevier, & Springer.

Dr. Keisuke Kuroda is an Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering, Toyama Prefectural University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Tokyo (2010). He was a postdoctoral research fellow at Eawag, Switzerland, and the University of Tokyo, and was a senior scientist at National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan. His research interests lie in the dynamics of various natural and man-made pollutants in the water environments and their management in urban water systems. Particular interests are subsurface geochemistry and mitigation technologies of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs), such as pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs), arsenic, and per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS). Recent research focuses include assessment of environmental fate of antiviral drugs and their ecotoxicological risks, wastewater-based epidemiology, advanced oxidation process (AOP), and photocatalytic water treatment for decentralized water systems. He is serving as one of the editorial board members in Science of the Total Environment (STOTEN) and was a guest editor of STOTEN, Journal of Environmental Management (JEMA) and the Scientific World Journal.

Dr. Santanu Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor at the School of Agricultural Sciences, Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences, Himachal Pradesh, India. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Bonn, Germany, and worked as a guest scientist in FZJ, Juelich, Germany. He was a visiting researcher at Savannah River Ecological Laboratory, USA. After returning to India, he worked as a DST-SERB (Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology in India) postdoctoral fellow at one of the top institutions of this country, IIT-Gandhinagar. He is the recipient of multiple accolades of national and international repute, to name a few: the India-Japan Hiyoshi Young Leaf Award, the Early Career Travel Grant by The Geochemical Society (GS) and the European Association of Geochemistry (EAG), the ICAR International Fellowship, the Hutchison Young Scientists Foundation Awards, the DST-SERB-GOI Fellowships, the DST-SERB TARE grant, the DST-SERB Start-up grant, the UCSI-REIG grant (2023) with Malaysia, the GRIFA (Italian Pesticide Agency) grant, and the EU-COST action biochar grant. His research interest includes the fate of emerging contaminants, biogeochemical transformation of nutrients, and the role of dissolved and particulate organic matter in deciding contaminants' fate in the environment. He is serving as a youth editorial board member of Biochar (Scopus indexed journal from Springer), guest editor of Sustainability journal, reviewer of many Scopus-indexed journals, have also edited three books, and published several peer-reviewed papers and book chapters.

Prof. Long D. Ngiehm, is the Director of the Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater and a Professor in Environmental Engineering at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. The overarching aim of his work is to discover, develop, and transfer new knowledge, skills, and technologies that improve the provision of clean water and purification of wastewater in service to society. Before joining UTS, he received research training and experience from the University of New South Wales, Yale University, the University of Melbourne, and the University of Wollongong. In 2009, he was a visiting professor at the Colorado School of Mines, USA. In May and June 2016, he was an August-Wilhelm Scheer Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. To date, he has supervised to completion 20 PhD and 8 MPhil students, and have overseen the delivery of numerous research projects with over $3 million in funding.

Meththika Vithanage is a Professor in Natural Resources and the founding director at the Ecosphere Resilience Research Centre, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. She is now serving as an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Agriculture, University of Western Australia, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, India and the National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Sri Lanka. She has received Presidential Awards for Scientific Publications for 12 years from the National Research Council of Sri Lanka. She is a Young Affiliate of the TWAS and a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, Sri Lanka. She received the General Research Committee Award by the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science in 2019. She was awarded as the Best Young Scientist, 2018 by the Young Scientist Forum of the National Science and Technology Commission, Sri Lanka and in 2016, she became the Young Scientist in Chemistry by the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka. She has received the Early Career Women Scientists fellowship by the Organization for Women Scientists in the Developing Countries, Italy in the year 2019. She is one of the leading researchers on Biochar and listed in the top 10 authors who have published SCI articles on biochar. Further, she was listed as Top 2% of the most cited scientists across various disciplines globally from 2017 to 2023. She has contributed to 250+ journal articles, 60+ book chapters and 8 co-edited books published by Elsevier, Springer, Wiley and CRC Press.

Vinay Kumar Tyagi is a Scientist at the Environmental Hydrology Division, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, India. His research interests include anaerobic digestion, energy-efficient wastewater treatment systems, Sludge management, and advanced biomass pretreatment methods. Dr. Tyagi has published 100+ publications including 7 books, 45 book chapters, and several journal articles. He also published manuals such as the O&M of Sewerage Works, and Operation and Maintenance Guidelines for UASB-DHS System, jointly published by Government of India and Japan. Dr. Tyagi is fellow and life member of several professional bodies and organizations. He is Management Committee Member of International Water Association (IWA) Sludge Management Specialist Group and represent South Asia Division. He is an active Reviewer of 100+ International Peer-Reviewed Journals and editor for IWA publishing (UK), editorial board member of Environmental Science and Eco-technology journal and lead editor of several special issues for international journals. Dr. Tyagi has extensive international research exposure of working in Taiwan, Spain, Japan, and in Singapore in various environmental research domains of wastewater treatment, sludge pre-treatment, and biomass to bioenergy recovery.

Dr. Manish Kumar是墨西哥蒙特雷科技大學和印度德拉敦UPES的杰出教授，也是日本中央大學的訪問學院教授。他曾在印度甘地尼加爾理工學院和特茲普爾大學任職，並在美國內布拉斯加林肯大學、韓國群山大學和瑞典烏普薩拉大學工作。他的研究旨在擴大對地球源、微生物和新興污染物的命運、運輸和修復的理解。

Kumar教授在日本東京大學獲得博士學位，指導了十個博士論文和50多個碩士論文，發表了200多篇國際期刊文章，被引用超過10,000次，H指數超過50，i-10指數超過175。他入選了世界頂尖2%的研究人員名單（2019-2023年）。他是英國皇家化學學會（FRSC）的會士，並為美國化學學會、愛思唯爾和斯普林格的多個Q-1期刊提供編輯服務。

Dr. Keisuke Kuroda是日本富山縣立大學環境與土木工程系的副教授。他於2010年在東京大學獲得工學博士學位。他曾在瑞士Eawag和東京大學擔任博士後研究員，並在日本國立環境研究所擔任高級科學家。他的研究興趣包括水環境中各種自然和人為污染物的動態及其在城市水系中的管理。特別關注的是地下地球化學和新興關注物（CECs）的污染物緩解技術，如藥物和個人護理產品（PPCPs）、砷和全氟和多氟物質（PFAS）。最近的研究重點包括評估抗病毒藥物的環境命運及其生態毒理風險、基於廢水的流行病學、先進氧化過程（AOP）和光催化水處理技術在分散式水系中的應用。他是《總環境科學》（STOTEN）的編輯委員會成員之一，並曾擔任STOTEN、《環境管理學報》（JEMA）和《科學世界雜誌》的客座編輯。

Dr. Santanu Mukherjee是印度喜馬偕爾邦Shoolini大學農業科學學院的助理教授。他在德國波恩大學獲得博士學位，並在德國尤利希研究中心擔任客座科學家。他曾在美國薩凡納河生態實驗室擔任訪問研究員。回到印度後，他在印度頂尖機構之一的印度理工學院甘地尼加爾擔任DST-SERB（印度科學與技術部科學與技術部）博士後研究員。他獲得了多個國家和國際的殊榮，包括印度-日本Hiyoshi Young Leaf獎、地球化學學會（GS）和歐洲地球化學協會（EAG）的早期職業旅行補助金、ICAR國際獎學金、Hutchison Young Scientists Foundation獎、DST-SERB-GOI獎學金、DST-SERB TARE獎學金、DST-SERB Start-up獎學金、與馬來西亞的UCSI-REIG獎學金（2023年）、GRIFA（意大利農藥局）獎學金和歐盟COST行動生物炭獎學金。他的研究興趣包括新興污染物的命運、營養物質的生物地球化學轉化以及溶解和顆粒有機物在環境中污染物命運中的作用。他是Springer的Scopus索引期刊Biochar的青年編輯委員會成員，Sustainability期刊的客座編輯，多個Scopus索引期刊的審稿人，還編輯了三本書，並發表了多篇同行評審的論文和專書章節。

Prof. Long D. Ngiehm，是