Future water quality monitoring: improving the balance between exposure and toxicity assessments of real-world pollutant mixtures

R Altenburger, W Brack, RM Burgess, W Busch… - Environmental Sciences …, 2019 - Springer
Environmental water quality monitoring aims to provide the data required for safeguarding
the environment against adverse biological effects from multiple chemical contamination …

Future water quality monitoring—Adapting tools to deal with mixtures of pollutants in water resource management

R Altenburger, S Ait-Aissa, P Antczak… - Science of the total …, 2015 - Elsevier
Environmental quality monitoring of water resources is challenged with providing the basis
for safeguarding the environment against adverse biological effects of anthropogenic …

Mixture risks threaten water quality: the European Collaborative Project SOLUTIONS recommends changes to the WFD and better coordination across all pieces of …

A Kortenkamp, M Faust, T Backhaus… - Environmental Sciences …, 2019 - Springer
Evidence is mounting that chemicals can produce joint toxicity even when combined at
levels that singly do not pose risks. Environmental Quality Standards (EQS) defined for …

Micropollutants in European rivers: A mode of action survey to support the development of effect‐based tools for water monitoring

W Busch, S Schmidt, R Kühne… - Environmental …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental quality monitoring of water resources is challenged with providing the basis
for safeguarding the environment against adverse biological effects from exposure to …

Improved component-based methods for mixture risk assessment are key to characterize complex chemical pollution in surface waters

L Posthuma, R Altenburger, T Backhaus… - Environmental Sciences …, 2019 - Springer
The present monitoring and assessment of water quality problems fails to characterize the
likelihood that complex mixtures of chemicals affect water quality. The European …

Towards a holistic and solution-oriented monitoring of chemical status of European water bodies: how to support the EU strategy for a non-toxic environment?

W Brack, BI Escher, E Müller, M Schmitt-Jansen… - Environmental Sciences …, 2018 - Springer
The definition of priority substances (PS) according to the Water Framework Directive (WFD)
helped to remove many of these chemicals from the market and to reduce their …

Assessing the ecological impact of chemical pollution on aquatic ecosystems requires the systematic exploration and evaluation of four lines of evidence

T Backhaus, W Brack, PJ Van den Brink… - Environmental Sciences …, 2019 - Springer
The aim of the European Water Framework Directive is to ensure good ecological status for
all European surface waters. However, although current monitoring strategies aim to identify …

Monitoring of emerging contaminants of concern in the aquatic environment: a review of studies showing the application of effect-based measures

A Yusuf, D O'Flynn, B White, L Holland… - Analytical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Water scarcity is increasingly a global cause of concern mainly due to widespread changes
in climate conditions and increased consumptive water use driven by the exponential …

Chemical pollution imposes limitations to the ecological status of European surface waters

L Posthuma, MC Zijp, D De Zwart, D Van de Meent… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Aquatic ecosystems are affected by man-made pressures, often causing combined impacts.
The analysis of the impacts of chemical pollution is however commonly separate from that of …

Development of a bioanalytical test battery for water quality monitoring: Fingerprinting identified micropollutants and their contribution to effects in surface water

PA Neale, R Altenburger, S Aït-Aïssa, F Brion, W Busch… - Water research, 2017 - Elsevier
Surface waters can contain a diverse range of organic pollutants, including pesticides,
pharmaceuticals and industrial compounds. While bioassays have been used for water …