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Modelling the Migration of Pathogens in Agricultural Settings: From Surface Land to Groundwater Reservoirs

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Groundwater is an essential natural resource for the preservation of the natural ecosystems, as well as, for human life and health as for many communities it is their sole source to supply all their daily water needs (Oki and Kanae 2006). In brief, groundwater aquifers are formed when freshwater stores in underground saturated geological formations refilled by alluvial recharge. As water begins to seep into the ground, it enters to the unsaturated zone or vadose zone (a mixture of soil, water and air) that ideally acts as a natural filter retaining pollutants suspended before reaching the saturated zone (Stefanakis et al. 2015). It is estimated that water for human consumption comprises of up to underground water (95–96%) and consequently when water scarcity occurs, groundwater exploitation appears the easiest way to fulfill the growing water demands (Oki and Kanae 2006; Giordano 2009). Thus, the increasing reports on contamination of groundwater resources has a direct impact in all living organisms which depend directly or indirectly on the hydrologic cycle of the reservoir (Fig. 1).

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The authors acknowledge the financial support of the Dirección de Investigación (DINV) at UIA through project DINV-0054 and to the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología Mexicano (CONACyT) through the postgraduate fellowship (No.375858) awarded to E.M-A. We also thank Ernesto Javier Murillo Mata for his help and valuable contribution adapting the figures used in this manuscript.

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Marín-Angel, E., Rivera-Toledo, M., Quevedo, I.R. (2023). Modelling the Migration of Pathogens in Agricultural Settings: From Surface Land to Groundwater Reservoirs. In: Aguilar, C.N., Abdulhameed, S., Rodriguez-Herrera, R., Sugathan, S. (eds) Microbial Biodiversity, Biotechnology and Ecosystem Sustainability. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4336-2_13

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