The main objective of this study was to investigate the antibiotic resistance (AR) levels in
wastewater (WW) and the impact on the receiving river. Samples were collected once per …

Urban rivers are impacted ecosystems which may play an important role as reservoirs for
antibiotic-resistant (AR) bacteria. The main objective of this study was to describe the …

The effects of five towns on river water pollution were examined along the Łyna River
(southern watershed of the Baltic Sea, northern Poland). The relationships among the …

Influence of landscape pattern on water quality is complex and scale dependent. Existing
literature mainly focuses on examining this influence at a wide range of spatial scales from …

This study aims to investigate the prevalence of clinically relevant carbapenemases genes
(bla KPC, bla NDM and bla OXA-48) in water samples collected over one-year period from …

Water quality monitoring is essential to safeguard human and environmental health. The
advent of next-generation sequencing techniques in recent years, which allow a more in …

Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) have greatly improved water quality globally.
However, treated effluents still contain a complex cocktail of pollutants whose environmental …

Effluent organic matter (EfOM) discharged from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) carry
substantial risks to river ecosystems. The fate and role of EfOM in the receiving water is …

The geochemical behavior of metals in water and sediment was investigated in the tidal
section of the Zenne River in Belgium. Twelve-hour sampling campaigns were performed in …

Organic-diffusive gradients in thin-film samplers (o-DGT), were developed and applied for
accumulation of estrogen and estrogen-like compounds on a XAD18 resin and deployed in …