Are your dogs potty trained?

It's not just humans that attribute to the waste water contamination it is also animals. Dogs have attributed to the contamination of water and researchers are trying to find a way to detect their fecal matter and figure out a way to stop it form contaminating and streams or rivers. When you let your dogs out in the water or play around the ocean it might happen where someone needs to go potty. This based research used the method of PCR to determine dog fecal contamination. With the method of collecting samples of about (244 fecal samples) from different geographic regions, they are able to detect the determination from the harm of humans and the harm of dogs. This will help figure out the harmful affects it has on our aquatic environment but also to other waste water treatment plants. This will improve the way we detect contamination and help improve our water quality monitoring.

 

Hyatt C. Green, 2014, environ. Sci. Technol. Development of Rapid Canine Fecal Source Identification PCR-Based Assays

 

 

Development of Rapid Canine Fecal Source Identification PCR-Based Assays

Hyatt C. Green, Karen M. White, Cathy A. Kelty, and Orin C. Shanks

Environmental Science & Technology        

 

Environ. Sci. Technol., Article ASAP

DOI: 10.1021/es502637b

Publication Date (Web): September 9, 2014

Copyright This article not subject to U.S. Copyright. Published 2014 by the American Chemical Society