Impact of crop irrigation with wastewater on soil microbiota diversity

• Grant number: 18/25451-9
• Support type: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): October 01, 2019
• Effective date (End): March 18, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Sanitary Engineering - Water Supply and Wastewater Treatment
• Principal researcher: Adriano Luiz Tonetti
• Grantee: Lays Paulino Leonel
• Supervisor abroad: Ariane Bize
• Home Institution: Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FEC). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Research place: Institut National de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies pour l'Environnement et l'Agriculture, Antony (IRSTEA), France
• Associated to the scholarship: 17/12157-2 - Impact of the application of treated and disinfected wastewater to inactivation of Giardia spp. in soil properties, BP.DR

Abstract

In front of the water scarcity problem, the use of treated wastewater appears as a viable alternative to supply the agricultural sector demand, the main consumer of available water in the world. Thus, this project aims to evaluate if the use of disinfected wastewater for crop irrigation changes the soil microbiota diversity, by 16S metabarcoding analysis. For this, a partnership with the French National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture (IRSTEA) is proposed. In addition to better understanding the soil microbial community behavior under the application of treated wastewater, the internship will enable to develop expertise in the exploitation of high throughput data with an applied perspective in environmental engineering solutions by the use of software's and pipelines that are state-of-the-art and/or widely acknowledged in the field will be used.