■ BACKGROUND This biennial review covers developments in water analysis for emerging
environmental contaminants over the period of October 2013-October 2015. Analytical …

Depletion of groundwater is accelerated due to an increase in water demand for
applications in urbanized areas, agriculture sectors, and energy extraction, and dwindling …

Background Safe and clean drinking water is essential for human life. Persistent, mobile and
toxic (PMT) substances and/or very persistent and very mobile (vPvM) substances are an …

While our current generation continues to make efforts to remediate and minimize traditional
pollutants in the environment, other “emerging” environmental contaminants are now …

Persistent, mobile, and toxic (PMT) and very persistent and very mobile (vPvM) substances
have been recognized as a threat to both the aquatic environment and to drinking water …

Dioxane has historically been used to stabilize chlorinated solvents and more recently has
been found as a contaminant of numerous consumer and food products. Once discharged …

Persistent and mobile organic substances are those with the highest propensity to be widely
distributed in groundwater and thereby, when emitted at low-levels, to contaminate drinking …

The use of the anammox process for nitrogen removal has gained popularity across the
world due to its low energy consumption and waste generation. Anammox reactors have …

The ultraviolet (UV)-based advanced oxidation process (AOP) is a powerful technology for
removing pathogenic microorganisms and contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) from …

1, 4-Dioxane (dioxane) is an emerging groundwater contaminant that has significant
regulatory implications and potential remediation costs, but our current understanding of its …