Occurrence and public-perceived risk of endocrine disrupting compounds in drinking water

Abstract

Access to safe water is a crucial factor in determining environmental sustainability, public health, and economic prosperity. Endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) are an environmental contaminant of growing concern, which undermine the safety of drinking water. The potential health issues of EDCs are not fully understood yet due to there being relatively scarce research on their exposure and associated risks via drinking water consumption. Because of ineffective drinking water supply systems and unknown risk perceptions of EDCs in drinking water, the role of perceived risks in ensuring access to safe drinking water remains unknown, contributing to the occurrence of such potential risks in the global water system. Integrating preventive measures with a multibarrier approach to safe drinking water is highly challenging because of the relatively low public awareness and political responsibility, as well as the nature and characteristics of EDCs themselves. In addition to reviewing the occurrence and publicperceived risks of EDCs in drinking water, this article focuses on building bases of knowledge and awareness for a better understanding of drinking water quality issues relative to the hazards surrounding EDCs from the perspectives of human exposure and health risk. A conceptual model illustrates the factors that potentially influence risk perception on drinking water quality in regard to not only EDCs but also other issues. Ensuring safe access to drinking water requires interventions that incorporate risk communication and governance, providing insights into political, economic, social, and environmental changes.

Fast, efficient and clean adsorption of bisphenol-A using renewable mesoporous silica nanoparticles from sugarcane waste ash

“…The relative high solubility of this molecule or monomer, if analysed its application in the production of polymers, in water for an organic compound is a major concern (120-300 mg L À1 (21.5 C)), especially from the hormonal point of view, as already mentioned. 10,11,38 In aqueous media with higher alkalinity, the solubility of BPA tends to increase, due to the dissociation of hydroxyl groups in its structure (Fig. 1).…”

“…The EDC can arrive in river waters from discharging industrial waste, in groundwater by leaching dump sites (mainly leaching from BPA-based plastics or microplastics) 9 and in tap water because conventional wastewater treatment processes are not completely efficient. 10,11 However, the biggest concern is that even though the problems caused by BPA it is still widely used, especially in thermal paper receipts. 4,12 Many researchers have investigated the BPA removal by adsorption using different adsorbents, such as clays, 13,14 zeolites, 15,16 chitosan, 17,18 and agricultural wastes.…”

Occurrence of multiclass endocrine disrupting compounds in a drinking water supply system and associated risks

“…With the integration of Big Data and IoT in measuring, diagnosing, and sorting information from devices, the data can be further transferred to a central information hub for immediate communication, troubleshooting, analyzing, visualization, storage, and security. Subsequently, all information should be made available and disseminated to the stakeholders, authorities, and industries, especially the public, in the interest of community-based risk governance and communication, which can be expected to be essential in supporting sustainable development, monitoring, and management through risk behavior development and participation 3 . This technology, which is known as a power-efficient and simpler solution, represents a smart tool in the monitoring and management of emerging contaminants and their associated risks.…”

Occurrence of selected endocrine disrupting compounds in the eastern cape province of South Africa

“…EDCs such as phthalates and triclosan in personal care products such as cosmetics, lotions, fragrances and soaps contain, get into the environment through wastewater (Magueresse-Battistoni et al 2017;Nicolopoulou-Stamati et al 2015). Food and water are the major routes of exposure to EDCs (Wee and Aris 2019;Scialabba 2019;Russo et al 2019). A variety of EDCs have been observed in the treated drinking water supply throughout the world, particularly in tap water from as low as 0.2 ng/L to as high as 5510.0 ng/L, while a maximum concentration (28,000.0 ng/L) was observed in drinking water from the wells in India (Wee and Aris 2019).…”