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  • Microbiology
  • Water Resource Management

Background:

  • River water quality varies with land use and discharge sources, impacting aquatic microbial communities.
  • Aquatic microbial communities can serve as sensitive indicators of water quality characteristics.
  • Understanding these relationships is crucial for effective water resource management.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate a random forest model for predicting water sample sources.
  • To compare the predictive power of physicochemical indices (PCIs) and microbiological indices (MBIs).
  • To assess the efficacy of microbial abundance data for identifying riverine water origins.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a random forest model to predict water sample sources from three distinct river ecosystems.
  • Employed environmental physicochemical indices (PCIs) and microbiological indices (MBIs) as input variables.
  • Compared models based on conventional water quality indices, pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and microbial data (bacteria and fungi).

Main Results:

  • Microbiological indices, particularly the abundance of top 30 bacteria combined with pathogenic antibiotic resistant bacteria (PARB), yielded the best prediction accuracy (9.9% error, 0.8694 kappa).
  • Models based on microbial data outperformed those using PCIs alone or combined PCIs and MBIs.
  • Conventional water quality indices were better predictors than PPCPs, PAHs, or substituted PAHs (SPAHs) within the PCI category.

Conclusions:

  • Microbial community abundance data provides a powerful and reliable method for identifying water sample sources in river systems.
  • The proposed model offers an economical and rapid approach, with potential for further improvement with advancements in sequencing technology.
  • This approach can aid in water quality monitoring and management by pinpointing pollution sources effectively.