Journal ArticleDOI
A national reconnaissance of pharmaceuticals and other organic wastewater contaminants in the United States - I) Groundwater
Kimberlee K. Barnes,Dana W. Kolpin,Edward T. Furlong,Steven D. Zaugg,Michael T. Meyer,Larry B. Barber +5 more
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
Water samples were collected from a network of 47 groundwater sites across 18 states in 2000 and detections of some OWCs could have resulted from leaching of well-construction materials and/or other site-specific conditions related to well construction and materials.About:
This article is published in Science of The Total Environment.The article was published on 2008-09-01. It has received 700 citations till now.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
A review on the occurrence of micropollutants in the aquatic environment and their fate and removal during wastewater treatment
Yunlong Luo,Wenshan Guo,Huu Hao Ngo,Long D. Nghiem,Faisal I. Hai,Jian Zhang,Shuang Liang,Xiaochang C. Wang +7 more
TL;DR: This review provides a summary of the recent occurrence of micropollutants in the aquatic environment including sewage, surface water, groundwater and drinking water.
Journal ArticleDOI
Emerging organic contaminants in groundwater: A review of sources, fate and occurrence
TL;DR: Nanogram-microgram per litre concentrations are present in groundwater for a large range of EOCs as well as metabolites and transformation products and under certain conditions may pose a threat to freshwater bodies for decades due to relatively long groundwater residence times.
Journal ArticleDOI
Ecotoxicological aspects related to the presence of pharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment
Lúcia Santos,Alberto N. Araújo,Adriano Fachini,A. Pena,Cristina Delerue-Matos,Maria C. B. S. M. Montenegro +5 more
TL;DR: An extensive review of existing data in the form of tables, encompassing many therapeutic classes is presented and the different contamination sources as well as fate and both acute and chronic effects on non-target organisms are reviewed.
Journal ArticleDOI
Pharmaceuticals of Emerging Concern in Aquatic Systems: Chemistry, Occurrence, Effects, and Removal Methods.
TL;DR: Adsorption technologies are a low-cost alternative, easily used in developing countries where there is a dearth of advanced technologies, skilled personnel, and available capital, and adsorption appears to be the most broadly feasible pharmaceutical removal method.
Journal ArticleDOI
Occurrences and removal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in drinking water and water/sewage treatment plants: A review
TL;DR: The aim of this review is to provide a comprehensive summary of the removal and fate of PPCPs in different treatment facilities as well as the optimum methods for their elimination in STP and WTP systems.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Pharmaceuticals, hormones, and other organic wastewater contaminants in U.S. streams, 1999-2000: a national reconnaissance.
Dana W. Kolpin,Edward T. Furlong,Michael T. Meyer,E. Michael Thurman,Steven D. Zaugg,Larry B. Barber,Herbert T. Buxton +6 more
TL;DR: The U.S. Geological Survey used five newly developed analytical methods to measure concentrations of 95 organic wastewater contaminants (OWCs) in water samples from a network of 139 streams across 30 states during 1999 and 2000 as mentioned in this paper.
Journal ArticleDOI
Occurrence of drugs in German sewage treatment plants and rivers
TL;DR: In this article, the occurrence of 32 drug residues belonging to different medicinal classes like antiphlogistics, lipid regulators, psychiatric drugs, antiepileptic drugs, betablockers and β 2 -sympathomimetics as well as five metabolites has been investigated in German municipal sewage treatment plant (STP) discharges, river and stream waters.
Journal ArticleDOI
Occurrence, fate, and removal of pharmaceutical residues in the aquatic environment: a review of recent research data
TL;DR: Several PhACs from various prescription classes have been found at concentrations up to the microg/l-level in sewage influent and effluent samples and also in several surface waters located downstream from municipal sewage treatment plants (STPs).
OtherDOI
Pharmaceuticals, Hormones, and Other Organic Wastewater Contaminants in U.S. Streams
Herbert T. Buxton,Dana W. Kolpin +1 more
TL;DR: Results of this study demonstrate the importance of obtaining data on metabolites to fully understand not only the fate and transport of OWCs in the hydrologic system but also their ultimate overall effect on human health and the environment.
Journal ArticleDOI
Collapse of a fish population after exposure to a synthetic estrogen
Karen A. Kidd,Paul J. Blanchfield,Kenneth H. Mills,Vince P. Palace,Robert E. Evans,James M. Lazorchak,Robert W. Flick +6 more
TL;DR: It is shown that chronic exposure of fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) to low concentrations of the potent 17α-ethynylestradiol led to feminization of males through the production of vitellogenin mRNA and protein, impacts on gonadal development as evidenced by intersex in males and altered oogenesis in females, and, ultimately, a near extinction of this species from the lake.