Increasing access to piped water in low-income and middle-income countries combined with the many factors that threaten our drinking water supply infrastructure mean that intermittent water supply (IWS) will remain a common practice around the world. Common features of IWS include water stagnation, pipe drainage, intrusion, backflow, first flush events, and household storage. IWS has been shown to cause degradation as measured by traditional microbial water quality indicators. In this review, we build on new insights into the microbial ecology of continuous water supply systems revealed by sequencing methods to speculate about how intermittent supply conditions may further influence the drinking water microbiome, and identify priorities for future research.

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了解间歇性供应对饮用水微生物组的影响。

低收入和中等收入国家越来越多地获得自来水，再加上许多威胁我们的饮用水供应基础设施的因素，这意味着间歇性供水（IWS）将仍然是世界范围内的普遍做法。IWS的共同特征包括停水，排水，入侵，回流，初次冲洗和家庭储藏。如通过传统微生物水质指标测得的那样，IWS已显示出引起降解的作用。在这篇综述中，我们基于对连续供水系统微生物生态学的新见解，这些新生态学是通过测序方法揭示的，以推测间歇性供应条件如何进一步影响饮用水微生物组，并确定未来研究的重点。