About the Authors

Ratna E. Putri

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, Water Desalination and Reuse Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Lan Hee Kim

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, Water Desalination and Reuse Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Nadia Farhat

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

nadia.farhat@kaust.edu.sa

Affiliation Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, Water Desalination and Reuse Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Mashael Felemban

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, Water Desalination and Reuse Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Pascal E. Saikaly

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, Water Desalination and Reuse Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Johannes S. Vrouwenvelder

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

Affiliations Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, Water Desalination and Reuse Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.