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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Mixture effects in samples of multiple contaminants–An inter-laboratory study with manifold bioassays

R Altenburger, M Scholze, W Busch, BI Escher… - Environment …, 2018 - Elsevier
Chemicals in the environment occur in mixtures rather than as individual entities.
Environmental quality monitoring thus faces the challenge to comprehensively assess a …

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 …

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 …

Effect-based methods are key. The European Collaborative Project SOLUTIONS recommends integrating effect-based methods for diagnosis and monitoring of water …

W Brack, SA Aissa, T Backhaus, V Dulio… - Environmental Sciences …, 2019 - Springer
The present monitoring and assessment of the chemical status of water bodies fail to
characterize the likelihood that complex mixtures of chemicals affect water quality. The …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Effect-directed analysis (EDA) in aquatic ecotoxicology: state of the art and future challenges

M Hecker, H Hollert - Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2009 - Springer
1 Background, aim, and scope One of the key challenges environmental toxicologists and
risk assessors are facing is the characterization and assessment of the complex exposure …