Combining physicochemical properties and microbiome data to evaluate the water quality of South African drinking water production plants

Tawanda E. Maguvu; Cornelius C. Bezuidenhout; Rinaldo Kritzinger; Karabo Tsholo; Moitshepi Plaatjie; Lesego G. Molale-Tom; Charlotte M. Mienie; Roelof D. Coertze

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0237335

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Combining physicochemical properties and microbiome data to evaluate the water quality of South African drinking water production plants

Tawanda E. Maguvu ,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: temaguvu@gmail.com

Affiliation Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management - Microbiology, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6085-433X

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Cornelius C. Bezuidenhout,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management - Microbiology, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
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Rinaldo Kritzinger,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management - Microbiology, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
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Karabo Tsholo,

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation

Affiliation Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management - Microbiology, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
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Moitshepi Plaatjie,

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation

Affiliation Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management - Microbiology, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
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Lesego G. Molale-Tom,

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

Affiliation Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management - Microbiology, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
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Charlotte M. Mienie,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management - Microbiology, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
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Roelof D. Coertze

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

Affiliation Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management - Microbiology, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6324-7575

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Combining physicochemical properties and microbiome data to evaluate the water quality of South African drinking water production plants

Tawanda E. Maguvu,
Cornelius C. Bezuidenhout,
Rinaldo Kritzinger,
Karabo Tsholo,
Moitshepi Plaatjie,
Lesego G. Molale-Tom,
Charlotte M. Mienie,
Roelof D. Coertze

Published: August 13, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237335

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