Which micropollutants in water environments deserve more attention globally?

Y Yang, X Zhang, J Jiang, J Han, W Li… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Increasing chemical pollution of aquatic environments is a growing concern with global
relevance. A large number of organic chemicals are termed as “micropollutants” due to their …

A review on effective removal of emerging contaminants from aquatic systems: Current trends and scope for further research

BS Rathi, PS Kumar, PL Show - Journal of hazardous materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Wastewater is water that has already been contaminated by domestic, industrial and
commercial activity that needs to be treated before it could be discharged into some other …

Emerging organic contaminants in global community drinking water sources and supply: A review of occurrence, processes and remediation

A Mukhopadhyay, S Duttagupta, A Mukherjee - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Human-sourced organic compounds like pesticides, pharmaceuticals, surfactants, personal
care products, food, and industrial additives are used daily, across multiple sectors, globally …

Health and ecological risk assessment of emerging contaminants (pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and artificial sweeteners) in surface and groundwater …

BM Sharma, J Bečanová, M Scheringer… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Pharmaceuticals, personal care products (PPCPs), and artificial sweeteners (ASWs) are
contaminants of emerging concern commonly found in the aquatic environments. In India …

Occurrence, fate and removal of pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) in water and wastewater treatment plants—A review

CF Couto, LC Lange, MCS Amaral - Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the occurrence of Pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) in water
and wastewater worldwide as well as their fate, focusing on the removal by conventional …

An assessment of hospital wastewater and biomedical waste generation, existing legislations, risk assessment, treatment processes, and scenario during COVID-19

VK Parida, D Sikarwar, A Majumder… - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Hospitals release significant quantities of wastewater (HWW) and biomedical waste (BMW),
which hosts a wide range of contaminants that can adversely affect the environment if left …

Human health and ecological risk assessment of 98 pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) detected in Indian surface and wastewaters

A Sengar, A Vijayanandan - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The release of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in environmental
waters has become an urgent issue due to their pseudo-persistent traits. The present study …

Forward osmosis: where are we now?

DL Shaffer, JR Werber, H Jaramillo, S Lin, M Elimelech - Desalination, 2015 - Elsevier
Forward osmosis (FO) has been extensively investigated in the past decade. Despite
significant advancements in our understanding of the FO process, questions and challenges …

Pharmaceuticals and personal care products in water and wastewater: a review of treatment processes and use of photocatalyst immobilized on functionalized carbon …

AO Oluwole, EO Omotola, OS Olatunji - BMC chemistry, 2020 - Springer
The presence of emerging contaminants such as pharmaceutical and personal care
products in many aqueous matrices have been reported. One of such matrix is streams of …

[HTML][HTML] Potential impacts of changing supply-water quality on drinking water distribution: A review

G Liu, Y Zhang, WJ Knibbe, C Feng, W Liu, G Medema… - Water research, 2017 - Elsevier
Driven by the development of water purification technologies and water quality regulations,
the use of better source water and/or upgraded water treatment processes to improve …