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March 7, 2026Water Science & Technology Water SupplyOpen Access

Drinking water reservoir dynamics: exploring the interface between design and microbial ecology

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KMKinosha MoodleyASAnnelie ScholtzSOSolize Oosthuizen-Vosloo

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Examines how service reservoir design and operation affect microbial quality, suggesting design impacts on stability are minimal.

Key Points

  • The study aims to explore how service reservoir design and operation influence microbial community composition in drinking water.
  • Conducted microbial community analysis using 16S V4 amplicon sequencing.
  • Monitored service reservoir design and operational parameters.
  • Performed temperature mapping to identify potential stagnation zones.
  • Assessed month-to-month microbial community variation.
  • Found spatially consistent community structure within individual months.
  • Detected significant month-to-month variation likely linked to seasonal changes.
  • Identified a core microbiome of 96 ASVs across all sampling months, representing about 43.5% of total reads.

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Moodley et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69abc1e85af8044f7a4eb004https://doi.org/10.2166/ws.2026.126
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