Analysis and occurrence of pharmaceuticals, estrogens, progestogens and polar pesticides in sewage treatment plant effluents, river water and drinking water in the Llobregat river basin (Barcelona, Spain)

Kuster, Marina; Alda, Miren López de; Hernando, M.D.; Petrović, Mira; Martín-Alonso, Jordi; Barceló, Damià

doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.05.030

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“…Bezafibrate is used to treat elevated blood concentrations of cholesterol (lipid regulator), ibuprofen is used as pain killer, sulfamethoxazole as antibiotic, metoprolol as b-blocker (treatment of hypertension), carbamazepin as anti-epileptic, other shown compounds are used as X-ray contrast media. Gagne et al 2006;Gomez et al 2006;Hernando et al 2006b;Kuster et al 2008). Besides household sewage, other emission sources of human pharmaceuticals are waste waters from manufacturers, hospitals, and disposal of unconsumed drugs via solid waste.…”

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“…They are used in veterinary practice to treat cattle feedlot and directly contaminate surface water by means of run off during rainfall (Daughton and Ternes 1999;Brooks et al 2009). Several studies have reported that some pharmaceuticals are not completely removed by drinking water treatment and are found at trace levels in drinking water (Versteegh et al 2007;Kuster et al 2008;Benotti et al 2009;Cooney 2009). …”

Section: Pharmaceuticalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Personal care products enter the environment via sewage treatment effluent as a result of showering, washing off, washing clothes, etc., but are also directly released in surface waters by recreational activities as swimming and sunbathing. Personal care products are observed regularly in effluents and surface waters worldwide (Daughton and Ternes 1999;Kasprzyk-Hordern et al 2008;Kuster et al 2008;Rahman et al 2009). Some of them can accumulate in exposed organisms.…”

Section: Personal Care Productsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Petrovic et al 2003;Rodrigues et al 2007;Kuster et al 2009;Loos et al 2009;Palma et al 2009;Vryzas et al 2009). The occurrence of pesticides in drinking water was investigated for water prepared from the Llobregat River and reported to be undetectable (Lopez-Roldan et al 2004) or below 100 ng/l (Kuster et al 2008). …”

Section: Pesticidesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Emerging contaminants in surface waters and their relevance for the production of drinking water in Europe

Houtman

2010

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences

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An increasing part of drinking water in Europe is prepared from surface water. At the same time, a growing number of emerging contaminants is being discovered in surface water. This review provides an overview of classes of emerging contaminants nowadays detected in the aquatic environment that are of relevance for drinking water production. These comprise e.g. endocrine disrupting compounds, such as hormones and compounds with hormone-like properties, pharmaceuticals, illicit and non-controlled drugs, sweeteners, personal care products, complexing agents, nanoparticles, perfluorinated compounds, flame retardants, pesticides, and fuel additives. The individual compounds are observed in concentrations that are generally considered too low to cause acute effects. Nevertheless, health effects due to long-term exposure to a mixture of low concentrations of all kinds of emerging contaminants cannot be excluded with current knowledge. Moreover, contamination of drinking water with man-made substances is considered unwanted in principle. The precautionary principle is used to motivate that prevention of emission of emerging contaminants into the environment is the preferred approach to safeguard sustainable drinking water production. In the mean time, extensive monitoring of the sources and development and application of advanced treatment techniques are used to prepare safe drinking water.

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Section: Pharmaceuticalsmentioning

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Section: Pharmaceuticalsmentioning

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2010

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“…Full MS and targeted MS/MS methods without derivatization, which are generally used in environmental monitoring applications, detect 40-100 or even more target compounds. These screening methods however often do not include or cannot detect E2 and EE2 due to poor detection limits (Chitescu et al 2015, Kuster et al 2008, Liu et al 2011b, Loos et al 2010. Evaluation of derivatives of estrogens makes positive mode electrospray ionization (ESI) mass spectrometric detection possible and improves generally the sensitivity of MS methods (Anari et al 2002, Xu &Spink 2008.…”

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β-Estradiol and ethinyl-estradiol contamination in the rivers of the Carpathian Basin

Avar

Zrínyi²,

Maász

et al. 2016

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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17β-estradiol (E2) and 17α-ethinyl estradiol (EE2), which are environmental estrogens have been determined with LC-MS in freshwater. Their sensitive analysis needs derivatisation and therefore is very hard to achieve in multiresidue screening. We analysed samples from all the large and some small rivers (River Danube, Drava, Mur, Sava, Tisza and Zala) of the Carpathian Basin and from Lake Balaton. Freshwater was extracted on solid phase and derivatised using dansyl-chloride. Separation was performed on a Kinetex XB-C18 column. Detection was achieved with a benchtop orbitrap mass spectrometer using targeted MS analysis for quantification. Limits of quantification were 0.05 ng/L (MS1) and 0.1 ng/L (MS/MS) for E2, and 0.001 ng/L (MS1) and 0.2 ng/L (MS/MS) for EE2. River samples contained n.d.-5.2 ng/L E2 and n.d.-0.68 ng/L EE2. Average levels of E2 and EE2 were 0.61 and 0.084 ng/L respectively in rivers, water courses and Lake Balaton together, but not counting city canal water. EE2 was less abundant, but it was still present in almost all of the samples. In beach water samples from Lake Balaton we measured 0.076-0.233 E2 and n.d.-0.133 EE2. A relative high amount of EE2 was found in river Zala (0.68 ng/L) and in Hévíz-Páhoki canal (0.52 ng/L), which are both in the catchment area of Lake Balaton (Hungary). HighlightsMethod is proposed for simultaneous determination of 17β-estradiol and 17α-ethinyl estradiol. Derivatization is necessary to reach low LOQ. Low ng/L presence of estrogens in selected European Rivers has been detected.

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Remediation of Emerging Pollutants by Using Advanced Biological Wastewater Treatments

Ghosh

Chakraborty

2021

Applied Water Science

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Analysis and occurrence of pharmaceuticals, estrogens, progestogens and polar pesticides in sewage treatment plant effluents, river water and drinking water in the Llobregat river basin (Barcelona, Spain)

Cited by 344 publications

References 17 publications

Emerging contaminants in surface waters and their relevance for the production of drinking water in Europe

Emerging contaminants in surface waters and their relevance for the production of drinking water in Europe

β-Estradiol and ethinyl-estradiol contamination in the rivers of the Carpathian Basin

Remediation of Emerging Pollutants by Using Advanced Biological Wastewater Treatments

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