Characterizing export of land-based microplastics to the estuary-Part I: Application of integrated geospatial microplastic transport models to assess tire and road wear …

KM Unice, MP Weeber, MM Abramson… - Science of the total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Human and ecological exposure to micro-and nanoplastic materials (abbreviated as MP,< 5
mm) occurs in both aquatic and terrestrial environments. Recent reviews prioritize the need …

Potential discharge, attenuation and exposure risk of SARS-CoV-2 in natural water bodies receiving treated wastewater

M Kumar, M Alamin, K Kuroda, K Dhangar, A Hata… - npj Clean Water, 2021 - nature.com
Recently reported detection of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater around the world has led to
emerging concerns on potential risk in water bodies receiving treated wastewater effluent …

Water, water everywhere, but every drop unique: Challenges in the science to understand the role of contaminants of emerging concern in the management of …

ST Glassmeyer, EE Burns, MJ Focazio, ET Furlong… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The protection and management of water resources continues to be challenged by multiple
and ongoing factors such as shifts in demographic, social, economic, and public health …

Analysis on the attenuation characteristics of PPCPs in surface water and their influencing factors based on a compilation of literature data

R Du, L Duan, Q Zhang, B Wang, J Huang, S Deng… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The attenuation characteristics of PPCPs play an important part in predicting their
environmental concentrations. However, considerable uncertainty remains in reported …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental risk assessment of metformin and its transformation product guanylurea: II. Occurrence in surface waters of Europe and the United States and …

DJ Caldwell, V D'Aco, T Davidson, K Kappler… - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
Metformin (MET), CAS 1115–70–4 (Metformin hydrochloride), is an antidiabetic drug with
high usage in North America and Europe and has become the subject of regulatory interest …

[HTML][HTML] Computational material flow analysis for thousands of chemicals of emerging concern in European waters

J van Gils, L Posthuma, IT Cousins, W Brack… - Journal of hazardous …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of exposure to a wide range of chemicals, and the spatio-temporal
variability thereof, is urgently needed in the context of protecting and restoring aquatic …

Estimation of unintended treated wastewater contributions to streams in the Yangtze River Basin and the potential human health and ecological risk analysis

Y Tong, M Qi, P Sun, W Qin, Y Zhu… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
“Clean water and sanitation” is one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
One primary objective of wastewater treatment is to remove contaminants such as …

What approaches should be used to prioritize pharmaceuticals and personal care products for research on environmental and human health exposure and effects?

J Mo, J Guo, H Iwata, J Diamond, C Qu… - Environmental …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) are released from multiple
anthropogenic sources and thus have a ubiquitous presence in the environment. The …

Ecological risk assessment of pharmaceuticals in the transboundary Vecht River (Germany and The Netherlands)

DJ Duarte, G Niebaum, V Lämmchen… - Environmental …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Millions of people rely on active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) to prevent and cure a
wide variety of illnesses in humans and animals, which has led to a steadily increasing …

Modeling the exposure of wild fish to endocrine active chemicals: Potential linkages of total estrogenicity to field-observed intersex

MJ Arlos, WJ Parker, JR Bicudo, P Law, KA Hicks… - Water Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Decades of studies on endocrine disruption have suggested the need to manage the
release of key estrogens from municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTP). However, the …