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Industrial Operation of the Biological
Early Warning System BioArgus
for Water Quality Control Using
Crayfish as a Biosensor
Sergey V. Kholodkevich, Tatiana
V. Kuznetsova, Svetlana V. Sladkova,
Anton S. Kurakin, Alexey V. Ivanov,
Vasilii A. Lyubimtsev, Eugenii L. Kornienko, and
Valery P. Fedotov
Abstract
The quality of the natural water incoming on
water intakes of water supply in certain
European countries since the beginning of
the 1970s at the drinking water supply Early
Warning Systems (EWS). The use of high
level of chemical in drinking water is danger
and economic losses in such cases depend on
speed of acceptance of the management
decisions directed to their prevention and
elimination. The aim of EWSs is to support
of the management decisions directed to
minimization of environmental risks in the
case of dangerous water quality changes at
water supply. The BioArgus-W is a
science-based, multi-parameter, multi-level
biomonitoring system comprising several
building blocks. Even a failure in one of them
can reduce partly or entirely a whole system
efficiency. The main distinctive features of the
BioArgus-W system are test-organisms (crayfish and fish) used as the sensors. The
measuring system allows carrying out a
long-term continuous biomonitoring of a surface water quality and quality of biologically
treated wastewaters on the basis of the analysis of heart rate variability in the freshwater
crayfish.
Keywords
Real-time biological early warning systems Á
Surface and sewage water monitoring Á
Crayfish as a biosensor Á Heart rate variability
10.1 Introduction
Environmental policy of all countries of the
world is directed to water supply of the population by drinking water of high quality and preserving the rivers, lakes and seas, suitable for
people and wildlife. However, now freshwater
reservoirs and water bodies, as well as community centralized drinking water supply systems, have been exposed to continuous and
escalating anthropogenic loading, and also
cases of sudden emergency pollution. Besides,
the problem of ecological safety of the population and prevention of threats of ecological crime
and terrorism in a zone of drinking water intakes
is urgent for many countries. Level of chemical
S. V. Kholodkevich (&) Á T. V. Kuznetsova Á
S. V. Sladkova Á A. S. Kurakin Á A. V. Ivanov Á
V. A. Lyubimtsev Á E. L. Kornienko Á V. P. Fedotov
Scientific Research Center for Ecological Safety,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Korpusnaya Str, 18,
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
e-mail: kholodkevich@mail.ru
T. V. Kuznetsova
e-mail: kuznetsova_tv@bk.ru
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Industrial Operation of the Biological
Early Warning System BioArgus
for Water Quality Control Using
Crayfish as a Biosensor
Sergey V. Kholodkevich, Tatiana
V. Kuznetsova, Svetlana V. Sladkova,
Anton S. Kurakin, Alexey V. Ivanov,
Vasilii A. Lyubimtsev, Eugenii L. Kornienko, and
Valery P. Fedotov
Abstract
The quality of the natural water incoming on
water intakes of water supply in certain
European countries since the beginning of
the 1970s at the drinking water supply Early
Warning Systems (EWS). The use of high
level of chemical in drinking water is danger
and economic losses in such cases depend on
speed of acceptance of the management
decisions directed to their prevention and
elimination. The aim of EWSs is to support
of the management decisions directed to
minimization of environmental risks in the
case of dangerous water quality changes at
water supply. The BioArgus-W is a
science-based, multi-parameter, multi-level
biomonitoring system comprising several
building blocks. Even a failure in one of them
can reduce partly or entirely a whole system
efficiency. The main distinctive features of the
BioArgus-W system are test-organisms (crayfish and fish) used as the sensors. The
measuring system allows carrying out a
long-term continuous biomonitoring of a surface water quality and quality of biologically
treated wastewaters on the basis of the analysis of heart rate variability in the freshwater
crayfish.
Keywords
Real-time biological early warning systems Á
Surface and sewage water monitoring Á
Crayfish as a biosensor Á Heart rate variability
10.1 Introduction
Environmental policy of all countries of the
world is directed to water supply of the population by drinking water of high quality and preserving the rivers, lakes and seas, suitable for
people and wildlife. However, now freshwater
reservoirs and water bodies, as well as community centralized drinking water supply systems, have been exposed to continuous and
escalating anthropogenic loading, and also
cases of sudden emergency pollution. Besides,
the problem of ecological safety of the population and prevention of threats of ecological crime
and terrorism in a zone of drinking water intakes
is urgent for many countries. Level of chemical
S. V. Kholodkevich (&) Á T. V. Kuznetsova Á
S. V. Sladkova Á A. S. Kurakin Á A. V. Ivanov Á
V. A. Lyubimtsev Á E. L. Kornienko Á V. P. Fedotov
Scientific Research Center for Ecological Safety,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Korpusnaya Str, 18,
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
e-mail: kholodkevich@mail.ru
T. V. Kuznetsova
e-mail: kuznetsova_tv@bk.ru
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
B. W. Pandey and S. Anand (eds.), Water Science and Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals Series,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57488-8_10
127