Potentialities of complex network theory tools for urban drainage networks analysis

A Simone, A Cesaro, G Del Giudice… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Urban drainage networks (UDNs) represent important infrastructures to protect and maintain
community health and safety. For these reasons, technicians and researcher are focusing …

Use of selected NSAIDs in Guangzhou and other cities in the world as identified by wastewater analysis

J Yan, W Lin, Z Gao, Y Ren - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
The mass load of pharmaceuticals in the municipal wastewater based on wastewater-based
epidemiology (WBE) is a good indication of population consumption in the catchment. After …

Refining the estimation of amphetamine consumption by wastewater-based epidemiology

J Gao, DA Burgard, BJ Tscharke, FY Lai, JW O'Brien… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Consumption of amphetamine and methamphetamine, two common illicit drugs, has been
monitored by wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) in many countries over the past …

Testing urban wastewater to assess compliance with prescription data through wastewater-based epidemiology: first case study in Italy

F Riva, S Castiglioni, C Pacciani, E Zuccato - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Sub-optimal adherence to pharmacological therapy is one of the main reasons for poor
effectiveness, reducing the patient's quality of life and affecting health-care economics. This …

Passive sampling of wastewater as a tool for the long-term monitoring of community exposure: illicit and prescription drug trends as a proof of concept

JA Baz-Lomba, C Harman, M Reid, KV Thomas - Water research, 2017 - Elsevier
A passive sampling device, the Polar Organic Chemical Integrative Sampler (POCIS), was
calibrated in-situ over a 4-week period in Oslo (Norway) for 10 illicit drugs and …

[HTML][HTML] Trends in nicotine consumption between 2010 and 2017 in an Australian city using the wastewater-based epidemiology approach

RS Mackie, BJ Tscharke, JW O'Brien, PM Choi… - Environment …, 2019 - Elsevier
Monitoring smoking prevalence is key to assessing responses to tobacco control measures,
and evaluating associated health and economic costs. Estimates of tobacco consumed in …

Determination of illicit drugs and psychoactive pharmaceuticals in wastewater from the area of Thessaloniki (Greece) using LC–MS/MS: estimation of drug …

C Christophoridis, S Veloutsou, E Mitsika… - Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
This study presents the development of an analytical method for the simultaneous
determination of multiclass illicit drugs (cocainoids, opiates, amphetamines, and …

A global systematic review and meta-analysis on illicit drug consumption rate through wastewater-based epidemiology

S Zarei, Y Salimi, E Repo, N Daglioglu, Z Safaei… - … Science and Pollution …, 2020 - Springer
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is a complementary, well-established
comprehensive, cost-effective, and rapid technique for monitoring of illicit drugs used in a …

Stereoselective LC–MS/MS methodologies for environmental analysis of chiral pesticides

B Petrie, MDC Muñoz, J Martín - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Chiral pesticides can exert stereospecific toxicity in contaminated environmental
compartments. Therefore, measuring pesticides at the enantiomeric level is essential to …

[HTML][HTML] Wastewater-based epidemiology in hazard forecasting and early-warning systems for global health risks

B Kasprzyk-Hordern, B Adams, ID Adewale… - Environment …, 2022 - Elsevier
With the advent of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, Wastewater-Based Epidemiology (WBE) has
been applied to track community infection in cities worldwide and has proven succesful as …