Global synthesis and critical evaluation of pharmaceutical data sets collected from river systems

SR Hughes, P Kay, LE Brown - Environmental science & …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Pharmaceuticals have emerged as a major group of environmental contaminants over the
past decade but relatively little is known about their occurrence in freshwaters compared to …

Proclivities for prevalence and treatment of antibiotics in the ambient water: a review

C Bhagat, M Kumar, VK Tyagi, PK Mohapatra - npj Clean Water, 2020 - nature.com
In the intial two decades of the twenty-first century, antibiotic (AB) resistance in human
pathogens has emerged as a major challenge for water, sanitation, and public health …

Capability of microalgae-based wastewater treatment systems to remove emerging organic contaminants: a pilot-scale study

V Matamoros, R Gutiérrez Martínez… - Journal of …, 2015 - upcommons.upc.edu
The effect of hydraulic retention time (HRT) and seasonality on the removal efficiency of 26
organic microcontaminants from urban wastewater was studied in two pilot high-rate algal …

Occurrence of acidic pharmaceuticals and personal care products in Turia River Basin: from waste to drinking water

E Carmona, V Andreu, Y Picó - Science of the total environment, 2014 - Elsevier
The occurrence of 21 acidic pharmaceuticals, including illicit drugs, and personal care
products (PPCPs) in waste, surface and drinking water and in sediments of the Turia River …

Assessment of the mechanisms involved in the removal of emerging contaminants by microalgae from wastewater: a laboratory scale study

V Matamoros, E Uggetti, J García, JM Bayona - Journal of hazardous …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Aerated batch reactors (2.5 L) fed either with urban or synthetic wastewater were
inoculated with microalgae (dominated by Chlorella sp. and Scenedesmus sp.) to remove …

[HTML][HTML] Survey of 218 organic contaminants in groundwater derived from the world's largest untreated wastewater irrigation system: Mezquital Valley, Mexico

LE Lesser, A Mora, C Moreau, J Mahlknecht… - Chemosphere, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Mezquital Valley system is the world's oldest and largest example with regard
to use of untreated wastewater for agricultural irrigation. Because of the artificial high …

Future water quality monitoring—Adapting tools to deal with mixtures of pollutants in water resource management

R Altenburger, S Ait-Aissa, P Antczak… - Science of the total …, 2015 - Elsevier
Environmental quality monitoring of water resources is challenged with providing the basis
for safeguarding the environment against adverse biological effects of anthropogenic …

Exploring the links between antibiotic occurrence, antibiotic resistance, and bacterial communities in water supply reservoirs

B Huerta, E Marti, M Gros, P López, M Pompêo… - Science of the Total …, 2013 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistance represents a growing global health concern due to the overuse and
misuse of antibiotics. There is, however, little information about how the selective pressure of …

Environmental risk assessment of pharmaceuticals in rivers: relationships between hazard indexes and aquatic macroinvertebrate diversity indexes in the Llobregat …

A Ginebreda, I Muñoz, ML de Alda, R Brix… - Environment …, 2010 - Elsevier
Continuous input of pharmaceuticals into rivers, through wastewater treatment systems, may
cause adverse effects on the aquatic ecosystems of the receiving waterbodies, due to the …

Pesticides from wastewater treatment plant effluents affect invertebrate communities

R Muenze, C Hannemann, P Orlinskiy, R Gunold… - Science of the total …, 2017 - Elsevier
We quantified pesticide contamination and its ecological impact up-and downstream of
seven wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in rural and suburban areas of central …