The anthropic fingerprinting of chemicals in wastewater: Wastewater-based epidemiology

Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern; Neil Byrnes; Nicola Ceolotto; Harry Elliss; Ben Faill; Eva Hawkins; Bhagya Ranathunge

doi:10.1016/B978-0-323-85601-0.00034-5

The anthropic fingerprinting of chemicals in wastewater: Wastewater-based epidemiology

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Abstract

Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is a new epidemiology tool with wide-ranging applications spanning from global SARS-CoV-2 surveillance through to estimation of illicit drugs and wider lifestyle chemicals usage in communities. The strong potential of WBE utilisation as an epidemiology tool for public health assessment in the context of communicable disease, lifestyle and exposure to chemicals is discussed in this chapter, as well as key aspects of WBE workflows are considered. These include: (i) selection of specific human metabolic biomarkers, (ii) characteristics of urban water catchment (population size and mobility in a WWTP catchment, wastewater flow rate), (iii) sampling, sample preparation and analytical tools needed for sensitive and selective biomarker quantification in wastewater, and (iv) accounting for WBE workflow uncertainties.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Sample Handling and Trace Analysis of Pollutants
Subtitle of host publication	Innovations to Determine Organic Contaminants (2nd ed.)
Editors	Damia Barcelo, Yolanda Pico
Place of Publication	Netherlands
Publisher	Elsevier
Chapter	22
Pages	691-718
Number of pages	28
ISBN (Electronic)	9780323984447
ISBN (Print)	9780323856010
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-85601-0.00034-5
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2025

Funding

The support of EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (EP/R51164X/1, ENTRUST IAA), Wessex Water Innovative Pathways Control Project and GCRF EWS-C19 (EP/V028499/1), EPSRC EDGE (EP/T029986/1) and EPSRC ReNEW (EP/P028403/1) is greatly appreciated.

Funders
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

Analysis
Chemicals
Disease
Exposure
Wastewater-based epidemiology

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Chemistry

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Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., Byrnes, N., Ceolotto, N., Elliss, H., Faill, B., Hawkins, E., & Ranathunge, B. (2025). The anthropic fingerprinting of chemicals in wastewater: Wastewater-based epidemiology. In D. Barcelo, & Y. Pico (Eds.), Sample Handling and Trace Analysis of Pollutants: Innovations to Determine Organic Contaminants (2nd ed.) (pp. 691-718). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-85601-0.00034-5

The anthropic fingerprinting of chemicals in wastewater: Wastewater-based epidemiology. / Kasprzyk-Hordern, Barbara ; Byrnes, Neil; Ceolotto, Nicola et al.
Sample Handling and Trace Analysis of Pollutants: Innovations to Determine Organic Contaminants (2nd ed.). ed. / Damia Barcelo; Yolanda Pico. Netherlands: Elsevier, 2025. p. 691-718.

Research output: Chapter or section in a book/report/conference proceeding › Book chapter

Kasprzyk-Hordern, B , Byrnes, N, Ceolotto, N, Elliss, H , Faill, B , Hawkins, E & Ranathunge, B 2025, The anthropic fingerprinting of chemicals in wastewater: Wastewater-based epidemiology. in D Barcelo & Y Pico (eds), Sample Handling and Trace Analysis of Pollutants: Innovations to Determine Organic Contaminants (2nd ed.). Elsevier, Netherlands, pp. 691-718. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-85601-0.00034-5

Kasprzyk-Hordern B , Byrnes N, Ceolotto N, Elliss H , Faill B , Hawkins E et al. The anthropic fingerprinting of chemicals in wastewater: Wastewater-based epidemiology. In Barcelo D, Pico Y, editors, Sample Handling and Trace Analysis of Pollutants: Innovations to Determine Organic Contaminants (2nd ed.). Netherlands: Elsevier. 2025. p. 691-718 Epub 2024 Oct 31. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-323-85601-0.00034-5

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The anthropic fingerprinting of chemicals in wastewater: Wastewater-based epidemiology

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