About the Authors

Wendy Stone

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

wstone@sun.ac.za

Affiliation Water Institute and Department of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Tobi M. Louw

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Process Engineering, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Marthinus J. Booysen

Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of E&E Engineering, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Gideon M. Wolfaardt

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Water Institute and Department of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Department of Chemistry and Biology, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.