Anthropic impacts on Sub-Saharan urban water resources through their pharmaceutical contamination (Yaoundé, Center Region, Cameroon)

Branchet, Perrine; Castro, Nancy Ariza; Fenet, Hélène; Góméz, Elena; Courant, Frédérique; Sebag, David; Gardon, Jacques; Jourdan, Camille; Ngatcha, Benjamin Ngounou; Kengne, Ives Magloire; Cadot, Emmanuelle; Gonzalez, Catherine

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.256

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“…Exemplary pharmaceuticals and their concentrations are presented in the reports, and their concentration levels are similar to raw and treated municipal wastewater (Clarke et al 2015;Lu et al 2016). Pollution of the groundwater caused by landfills has been reported (Samadder et al 2017;Branchet et al 2019). The detected concentrations of some pharmaceuticals are so high that they have created a real risk of the quality of groundwater (Peng et al 2014).…”

Section: Landfillsmentioning

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How to decrease pharmaceuticals in the environment? A review

Caban

Stepnowski

2021

Environ Chem Lett

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The global problem of the presence of human and veterinary pharmaceuticals in the environment is under investigation. Despite the increase in the knowledge of its sources, fates and impacts, the assessment of risks and the derived prevention actions are limited to single cases. The predicted increasing trend in the usage of pharmaceuticals forces the various parties involved to think about comprehensive mitigation actions. There are many areas of daily human life and industrial operations where such actions should take place. Thereby, in the presented review, such actions were summarized and divided into the following groups: A. design, synthesis and production of pharmaceuticals, B. prescription, sales and waste handling, C. control of the sources with advanced technologies. As the total amount of proposed actions was found to be quite high, a ranking according to the term of effects was proposed using the pyramid of needs. The advantages of actions taken in the first steps of the pharmaceutical life cycle (acting on the upstream) over end-of-pipe actions and the application of advanced technologies (the downstream option) were discussed, with reference to expert opinions.

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Section: Landfillsmentioning

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How to decrease pharmaceuticals in the environment? A review

Caban

Stepnowski

2021

Environ Chem Lett

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“…Emerging organic contaminants have equally been detected in wastewater, surface water and groundwater wells across many countries (Gwenzi & Chaukura, 2018; Sorensen et al, 2015). Recently, pharmaceutical residuals have also been found in surface water bodies and groundwater wells in some countries (Branchet et al, 2019; K'oreje et al, 2016). Our review has highlighted that water pollution is widespread across SSA threatening both human health (SDG 3) and ecosystems (SDG 14 and 15).…”

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Water security in sub‐Saharan Africa: Understanding the status of sustainable development goal 6

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The world is nearing the 2030 target‐year by which sustainable development goals (SDGs) should be achieved. While other developing regions seem to be making progress toward achieving SDG6, sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) is lagging behind significantly, particularly with regard to access to water supply and sanitation (WSS). As a result, most studies evaluating progress toward the achievement of water security SDGs in SSA have focused on WSS while the rest of the SDG6 targets have received scant attention, often using fragmented or incomplete evidence. Here, we fill this knowledge gap by conducting a comprehensive assessment of the status of SDG6 in all 48 countries in SSA. We provide a review of the progress made, the challenges affecting each SDG6 target and examine the different political, socioeconomic, and environmental factors with potential to undermine the achievement of SDG6 in the region. Our review clearly demonstrates that it is likely that most countries may not achieve water security by 2030. The complex nature of the challenges and factors impeding the achievement of water security in SSA outlined here suggests that a holistic intervention involving local, national, and international stakeholders and the research community is urgently needed to address SDG6 if the 2030 target date is to be met. Approaches to enhance water security may equally consider: (a) underpinning peace and security in SSA and (b) the commitment of more financial resources by donors particularly during this period of COVID‐19 pandemic. This article is categorized under: Human Water Human Water > Water Governance Engineering Water > Planning Water

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“…The antiretroviral drugs (lamivudine, nevirapine and zidovudine) and the antibiotics (ciprofloxacin, metronidazole, sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim) have been detected frequently in Kenya (K'oreje et al 2016 ; Ngumba et al 2016 ). Analgesics and NSAIDs (acetaminophen, codeine, diclofenac and ibuprofen) and the anticonvulsant, carbamazepine, were often found in water in Cameroon (Branchet et al 2019 ). However, numerous authors have stated that there is limited data available on the overall occurrence of EPs in Africa (Faleye et al 2017 ; K'oreje et al 2016 ; Madikizela et al 2017a ).…”

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Use of the Chemcatcher® passive sampler and time-of-flight mass spectrometry to screen for emerging pollutants in rivers in Gauteng Province of South Africa

Rimayi¹,

Chimuka

Gravell

et al. 2019

Environ Monit Assess

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Many rivers in urbanised catchments in South Africa are polluted by raw sewage and effluent to an extent that their ecological function has been severely impaired. The Hennops and Jukskei Rivers lying in the Hartbeespoort Dam catchment are two of the worst impacted rivers in South Africa and are in need of rehabilitation. Passive sampling (Chemcatcher® with a HLB receiving phase) together with high-resolution tandem mass spectrometry–targeted screening was used to provide high sensitivity and selectivity for the identification of a wide range of emerging pollutants in these urban waters. Over 200 compounds, including pesticides, pharmaceuticals and personal care products, drugs of abuse and their metabolites were identified. Many substances (~ 180) being detected for the first time in surface water in South Africa. General medicines and psychotropic drugs were the two most frequently detected groups in the catchment. These accounted for 49% of the emerging pollutants found. Of the general medicines, antihypertensive agents, beta-blocking and cardiac drugs were the most abundant (28%) classes detected. The Hennops site, downstream of a dysfunctional wastewater treatment plant, was the most polluted with 123 substances detected. From the compounds detected, peak intensity–based prioritisation was used to identify the five most abundant pollutants, being in the order caffeine > lopinavir > sulfamethoxazole > cotinine > trimethoprim. This work provides the largest available high-quality dataset of emerging pollutants detected in South African urban waters. The data generated in this study provides a solid foundation for subsequent work to further characterise (suspect screening) and quantify (target analysis) these substances. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1007/s10661-019-7515-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Anthropic impacts on Sub-Saharan urban water resources through their pharmaceutical contamination (Yaoundé, Center Region, Cameroon)

Cited by 57 publications

References 50 publications

How to decrease pharmaceuticals in the environment? A review

How to decrease pharmaceuticals in the environment? A review

Water security in sub‐Saharan Africa: Understanding the status of sustainable development goal 6

Use of the Chemcatcher® passive sampler and time-of-flight mass spectrometry to screen for emerging pollutants in rivers in Gauteng Province of South Africa

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