Highlights•Assessing global water quality issues requires a multi-pollutant modelling
approach.•Challenges relate to consistent inputs, multi-pollutant modelling approaches and …

Carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere from inland waters—streams, rivers, lakes and
reservoirs—are nearly equivalent to ocean and land sinks globally. Inland waters can be an …

Highlights•Water pollution poses a threat to aquatic ecosystems and society.•Global river
pollution models typically focus on one pollutant.•Pollutants can have common sources and …

Microplastics, transported by rivers to oceans, are triggering environmental concern. This
study aims to better understand river export of microplastics from land to sea. We developed …

An integrated modeling approach was used to connect socioeconomic factors and nutrient
management to river export of nitrogen, phosphorus, silica and carbon based on an updated …

The grey water footprint (GWF) is an indicator of aquatic pollution. We calculate past and
future trends in GWFs related to anthropogenic nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) inputs into …

Transitions in Chinese agriculture resulted in industrial animal production systems,
disconnected from crop production. We analyzed side-effects of these transitions on total …

Food production in China results in large losses of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) to the
environment. Our objective is to identify hotspots for N and P losses to the environment from …

Livestock production is often a source of multiple pollutants in rivers. However, current
assessments of water pollution seldomly take a multi-pollutant perspective, while this is …

We analyzed the potential for eutrophication in major seas around China: the Bohai Gulf,
Yellow Sea and South China Sea. We model the riverine inputs of nitrogen (N), phosphorus …