Chemosphere,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
364, P. 143055 - 143055
Published: Aug. 9, 2024
The
presence
of
pharmaceutical
pollutants
in
water
sources
has
become
a
growing
concern
due
to
its
potential
impacts
on
human
health
and
other
organisms.
physicochemical
properties
pharmaceuticals
based
their
intended
therapeutical
application,
which
include
antibiotics,
hormones,
analgesics,
antidepressants,
is
quite
diverse.
Their
wastewater,
sewerage
water,
surface
ground
even
drinking
reported
by
many
researchers
throughout
the
world.
Human
exposure
these
through
or
consumption
aquatic
terrestrial
organisms
raised
concerns
about
adverse
effects,
such
as
endocrine
disruption,
antibiotic
resistance,
developmental
abnormalities.
Once
environment,
they
can
persist,
undergo
transformation,
degrade,
leading
complex
mixture
contaminants.
Application
treated
compost,
manures
biosolids
agricultural
fields
introduce
environment.
As
are
diverse
nature,
significant
differences
observed
during
uptake
accumulation
plants.
While
there
have
been
extensive
studies
ecosystems,
effect
land
more
disparate.
now,
few
reports
available
plant
transportation
within
between
organs.
This
review
summarizes
occurrence
bodies
at
range
concentrations
uptake,
accumulation,
transport
tissues.
Research
gaps
pollutants'
specific
growth
future
research
scopes
highlighted.
factors
affecting
including
hydrophobicity,
ionization,
(pKa,
logK
Environmental Science & Technology,
Journal Year:
2012,
Volume and Issue:
46(4), P. 2121 - 2131
Published: Feb. 2, 2012
The
urban-water
cycle
modifies
natural
stream
hydrology,
and
domestic
commercial
activities
increase
the
burden
of
endocrine-disrupting
chemicals,
such
as
steroidal
hormones
4-nonylphenol,
that
can
disrupt
endocrine
system
function
in
aquatic
organisms.
This
paper
presents
a
series
integrated
chemical
biological
investigations
into
occurrence,
fate,
effects
chemicals
City
Boulder
Colorado's
WWTF
Creek,
receiving
stream.
Results
are
presented
showing
full-scale
upgrade
(that
treats
0.6
m3
s–1
sewage)
from
trickling
filter/solids
contact
process
to
an
activated
sludge
on
removal
compounds
other
contaminants
(including
nutrients,
boron,
bismuth,
gadolinium,
ethylenediaminetetraacetic
acid)
through
each
major
treatment
unit.
Corresponding
impacts
pre-
postupgrade
effluent
chemistry
fish
reproductive
end
points
were
evaluated
using
on-site,
continuous-flow
experiments,
which
male
fathead
minnows
(Pimephales
promelas)
exposed
for
28
days
upstream
Creek
water
under
controlled
conditions.
resulted
improved
efficiency
many
particularly
17β-estradiol
estrone,
indicated
reduction
disruption
relative
preupgrade
Environmental Science & Technology,
Journal Year:
2013,
Volume and Issue:
47(17), P. 9781 - 9790
Published: Aug. 16, 2013
In-stream
attenuation
was
determined
for
14
neuro-active
pharmaceuticals
and
associated
metabolites.
Lagrangian
sampling,
which
follows
a
parcel
of
water
as
it
moves
downstream,
used
to
link
hydrological
chemical
transformation
processes.
Wastewater
loading
compounds
varied
considerably
over
span
several
hours,
thus
sampling
regime
verify
that
the
being
sampled
mechanism
developed
correct
measured
concentrations
if
not.
5.4-km
evaluated
reach
could
be
modeled
pseudo-first-order
decay
11
pharmaceutical
compounds,
illustrating
capacity
streams
reduce
conveyance
downstream.
Fluoxetine
N-desmethyl
citalopram
were
most
rapidly
attenuated
(t1/2
=
3.6
±
0.3
h,
4.0
0.2
respectively).
Lamotrigine,
10,11,-dihydro-10,11,-dihydroxy-carbamazepine,
carbamazepine
persistent
12
2.0
2.6
21
4.5
Parent
(e.g.,
buproprion,
carbamazepine,
lamotrigine)
generally
more
relative
their
Several
(citalopram,
venlafaxine,
O-desmethyl-venlafaxine)
not
attenuated.
It
postulated
primary
removal
these
interaction
with
bed
sediments
stream
biofilms,
based
on
in
biofilms
column
experiment
using
sediments.
Environmental Pollution,
Journal Year:
2014,
Volume and Issue:
193, P. 173 - 180
Published: July 16, 2014
Pharmaceutical
contamination
of
shallow
groundwater
is
a
substantial
concern
in
effluent-dominated
streams,
due
to
high
aqueous
mobility,
designed
bioactivity,
and
effluent-driven
hydraulic
gradients.
In
October
December
2012,
effluent
contributed
approximately
99%
71%,
respectively,
downstream
flow
Fourmile
Creek,
Iowa,
USA.
Strong
hydrologic
connectivity
was
observed
between
surface-water
shallow-groundwater.
Carbamazepine,
sulfamethoxazole,
immunologically-related
compounds
were
detected
at
greater
than
0.02
μg
L−1
distances
up
6
m
from
the
stream
bank.
Direct
aqueous-injection
HPLC-MS/MS
revealed
43%
55%
110
total
pharmaceutical
analytes
samples
December,
with
16%
6%,
20
The
results
demonstrate
importance
discharge
as
driver
local
conditions
an
effluent-impacted
thus
fundamental
control
on
transport
effluent-derived
contaminants.
Environmental Science & Technology,
Journal Year:
2018,
Volume and Issue:
52(21), P. 12285 - 12294
Published: Oct. 7, 2018
First-order
half-lives
for
26
trace
organic
compounds
(TrOCs)
were
determined
in
the
hyporheic
zone
(HZ)
and
along
a
3
km
reach
of
first-order
stream
South
Australia
during
both
dry
wet
seasons.
Two
salt
tracer
experiments
conducted
evaluated
using
transient
storage
model
to
characterize
seasonal
differences
residence
time
storage.
Lagrangian
time-integrated
surface
water
sampling
calculate
water.
Half-lives
HZ
calculated
porewater
samples
obtained
from
modified
mini-point
sampler
times
measured
via
active
heat-pulse
sensing.
Half
investigated
TrOCs
(e.g.,
oxazepam,
olmesartan,
candesartan)
not
significantly
removed
river
stretch
sampled
flow
paths.
The
remaining
metformin,
guanylurea,
valsartan)
found
be
with
relative
removals
correlating
reach-scale
removals.
Using
modeled
transport
parameters,
it
was
estimated
that
season
removal
predominately
caused
by
when
intensity
exchange
also
higher.
Factors
increase
are
thus
likely
promote
in-stream
reactivity
TrOCs.
