Agriculture and eutrophication: where do we go from here?

PJA Withers, C Neal, HP Jarvie, DG Doody - Sustainability, 2014 - mdpi.com
The eutrophication of surface waters has become an endemic global problem. Nutrient
loadings from agriculture are a major driver, but it remains very unclear what level of on-farm …

An evidence synthesis of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in the environment: imbalances among compounds, sewage treatment techniques …

MF Meyer, SM Powers, SE Hampton - Environmental science & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) garner increasing attention globally
for both their usefulness as indicators of human waste and their potency as emerging …

Review of organic wastewater compound concentrations and removal in onsite wastewater treatment systems

LA Schaider, KM Rodgers… - Environmental science & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Onsite wastewater treatment systems, such as septic systems, serve 20% of US households
and are common in areas not served by wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) globally …

Sources, impacts and trends of pharmaceuticals in the marine and coastal environment

S Gaw, KV Thomas… - … Transactions of the …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
There has been a significant investment in research to define exposures and potential
hazards of pharmaceuticals in freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems. A substantial number …

National scale evaluation of the InVEST nutrient retention model in the United Kingdom

JW Redhead, L May, TH Oliver, P Hamel… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
A wide variety of tools aim to support decision making by modelling, mapping and
quantifying ecosystem services. If decisions are to be properly informed, the accuracy and …

Stewardship to tackle global phosphorus inefficiency: The case of Europe

PJA Withers, KC van Dijk, TSS Neset, T Nesme… - Ambio, 2015 - Springer
The inefficient use of phosphorus (P) in the food chain is a threat to the global aquatic
environment and the health and well-being of citizens, and it is depleting an essential finite …

[HTML][HTML] Impacts of pharmaceutical effluents on aquatic ecosystems

SD Kayode-Afolayan, EF Ahuekwe, OC Nwinyi - Scientific African, 2022 - Elsevier
The discharge of raw, contaminated, and inadequately treated pharmaceutical wastewater
into water supplies and river channels contribute to short, medium, and long-term …

A review of the fate and transport of nitrogen, phosphorus, pathogens, and trace organic chemicals in septic systems

MG Lusk, GS Toor, YY Yang… - Critical Reviews in …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A large population living in suburban and rural areas in the world uses septic
systems, also called onsite wastewater treatment systems, to dispose of household …

Changing climate and nutrient transfers: Evidence from high temporal resolution concentration-flow dynamics in headwater catchments

MC Ockenden, CE Deasy, CMWH Benskin… - Science of the Total …, 2016 - Elsevier
We hypothesise that climate change, together with intensive agricultural systems, will
increase the transfer of pollutants from land to water and impact on stream health. This study …

Tracking evolution of urban biogeochemical cycles: past, present, and future

SS Kaushal, WH McDowell, WM Wollheim - Biogeochemistry, 2014 - Springer
This overview and synthesis paper focuses on the evolution of urban biogeochemical cycles
across time. We synthesize empirical data and review existing literature, including papers in …