Safer Food Production With Reclaimed Wastewater: Linking Biological Treatment, Microbial Quality, and Heavy-Metal Risk.
Agricultural wastewater reclamation can reduce freshwater demand, but crop productivity must be balanced against contaminant transfer. We evaluated UASB-aerobic effluent produced at a 6-h UASB hydraulic retention time in a factorial greenhouse experiment with squash, six irrigation-water treatments, and three field cap...