“…Nowadays there are various physical and chemical measures available for remedying copper-rich water bodies. However, these methods are time-consuming, costly, and not environmental-friendly (Qdais and Moussa, 2004;Wei et al, 2005;Fu and Wang, 2011;You et al, 2018;Chen et al, 2022a,b;Li et al, 2022;Wang et al, 2022a). In recent years, the microbial-induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) technology has attracted extensive attention as an alternative to traditional measures (Achal et al, 2012a;Chen and Achal, 2019;Ye et al, 2021;Xue et al, 2022a,b).…”