(Re-)engineering microbial community structure-function-metabolism toward sustainable wastewater treatment and sanitation

<h2>Summary</h2> The application of engineered microbial communities to produce clean water, potentially in combination with the production of energy, chemicals, and nutrients, represents an attractive option to address some of the most pressing challenges that we face as a society today. This review presents novel perspectives focused on (re-)engineering microbiomes toward achieving sustainable and accessible wastewater treatment and sanitation. The foundation of such models is based on appropriately "matching" influent organic carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus with specific microbial community structure, function, and metabolism to achieve resource efficiency and circularity in the global water, energy, carbon, and nutrient cycles.