“…In addition to pathogen detection, NGS technologies have helped to dissect the aquatic microbial community composition as a proxy for microbial water quality assessment in various water environments, e.g., rivers and sediments, drinking water distribution systems, fish farming ponds, lakes, recreational water, rainwater, natural wetlands, marine, estuaries, coastal waters, reservoirs, lagoons, and hot springs, under varied exogenous impacts (e.g., miscellaneous pollution from fecal contamination, fertilizing and mining, WWTP discharge, landfill leachate, anthropogenic activities, and environmental variabilities) [151][152][153][154][155][156][157][158][159][160][161][162][163][164][165]. Furthermore, the dynamic changes in microbial diversity under a variety of anthropogenic, geographic, seasonal, and climatic impacts can also be assessed using the NGS approach to elucidate the observed spatiotemporal variabilities [156,162,[166][167][168][169][170][171].…”