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Recent Developments in Emerging Contaminants Determination and Treatment Technologies

This review covers recent advances in detecting and treating emerging contaminants in water, including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and endocrine disruptors, summarizing the most promising analytical and treatment technologies.

2022 Separations 6 citations
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Emerging Contaminants in Water: Detection, Treatment, and Regulation

This review covers emerging contaminants in water — including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and industrial chemicals — discussing detection methods, treatment technologies, and regulatory frameworks. The authors highlight major gaps in current water quality standards and the need for updated regulations to address these newer pollutants.

2021 Water 7 citations
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Introduction—Emerging Pollutants in Water: Threats, Challenges, and Research Needs

This review examines contaminants of emerging concern in water, including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and endocrine-disrupting compounds, that are not adequately addressed by current water treatment and regulation. These pollutants enter water through wastewater, industrial discharge, and agricultural runoff and persist in the environment. The authors call for better monitoring and innovative treatment strategies to protect human health and water resources.

2025 Advances in water security 5 citations
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Emerging Contaminants in Drinking Water

This review examined emerging contaminants in drinking water, including microplastics, pharmaceutical residues, and disinfection byproducts, assessing their occurrence, treatment removal efficiencies, and implications for human health.

2024 1 citations
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Understanding emerging contaminants in water and wastewater: A comprehensive review on detection, impacts, and solutions

This review covers emerging contaminants in water including pharmaceuticals, PFAS, microplastics, and nanomaterials that escape conventional water treatment and persist in the environment. It evaluates advanced detection techniques and newer treatment methods such as membrane filtration, advanced oxidation, and bioremediation to address these pollutants that pose ongoing risks to public health.

2025 Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances 34 citations
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Review of emerging contaminants sources, effects, and removal methods

This review categorizes emerging contaminants including microplastics, personal care products, pesticides, and pharmaceuticals, summarizing sources, environmental occurrence, and available treatment technologies for their removal from water.

2024 Applied and Computational Engineering 1 citations
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Research and Application of Water Treatment Technologies for Emerging Contaminants (ECs): A Pathway to Solving Water Environment Challenges

This review summarizes methods for removing emerging contaminants from water, including microplastics, drug residues, and hormone-disrupting chemicals. It covers physical, chemical, and biological treatment approaches, noting their strengths and limitations -- important because even at low concentrations, these pollutants build up over time and pose long-term threats to human health.

2024 Water 27 citations
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Emerging Contaminants in waste Water: Detection, and Treatment Innovations

This review covers emerging contaminants in wastewater—including pharmaceuticals, endocrine disruptors, microplastics, and antibiotic resistance genes—examining their sources, detection methods using advanced analytical tools, and cutting-edge treatment innovations.

2025 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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Nanotechnology-Based Approaches for the Removal of Emerging Contaminants from Water: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives

This review examines nanotechnology-based approaches for removing emerging contaminants including pharmaceuticals, endocrine disruptors, and microplastics from water, comparing the removal efficiencies of nanomaterial adsorbents, photocatalysts, and membrane systems against conventional treatment methods.

2025 Asian Journal of Environment & Ecology
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Research progress and application exploration of techniques to remove emerging contaminants from water environment

This review summarizes technologies for removing emerging contaminants — including pharmaceuticals, microplastics, and pesticides — from water, covering adsorption, membrane filtration, advanced oxidation, and biological methods. The authors assess the effectiveness and limitations of each approach for real-world water treatment.

2023 E3S Web of Conferences 2 citations
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A comprehensive review of emerging contaminants in water sources

This comprehensive review examines the origins and environmental significance of emerging contaminants in water sources, including pharmaceuticals, microplastics, endocrine disruptors, and PFAS chemicals. Researchers found that these persistent pollutants exhibit complex behaviors in aquatic systems and pose threats to both ecosystem and human health. The study highlights the need for advanced monitoring and treatment technologies to address the growing challenge of emerging contaminant pollution in water supplies.

2024 International Journal of Advanced Chemistry 2 citations
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Emerging Pollutants in Aquatic Environment: Critical Risk Assessment and Treatment Options

This review provided a critical risk assessment and treatment approaches for emerging pollutants in aquatic environments, including pharmaceuticals, microplastics, and personal care products, evaluating removal efficiency across treatment technologies.

2024 BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS eBooks
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Remediation of Emerging Pollutants by Using Advanced Biological Wastewater Treatments

This review examines advanced biological methods for removing emerging pollutants from wastewater, including pharmaceuticals, endocrine disruptors, and microplastics. Biological treatment approaches offer sustainable and effective alternatives to conventional treatment for this increasingly complex mix of contaminants.

2021 Applied Water Science 4 citations
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The Occurrence of Micropollutants in the Aquatic Environment and Technologies for Their Removal

This review summarizes the growing problem of micropollutants in water, including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and industrial chemicals, and evaluates advanced treatment methods to remove them. The research is important for human health because conventional water treatment plants cannot effectively filter out these contaminants, meaning people may be regularly exposed through tap water.

2025 Processes 14 citations
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Emerging contaminants – general aspects: sources, substances involved, and quantification

This review covers a range of emerging environmental contaminants — including microplastics in water bodies, pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs, and medical-use metals — discussing their sources, harmful effects, and detection methods. It provides useful context for understanding how microplastics fit into the broader landscape of modern chemical pollution threatening human and ecosystem health.

2023 Applied Spectroscopy Reviews 12 citations
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A review of occurrence of emerging contaminants and the advanced analytical techniques used for detection and removal of these pollutants in wastewater

This review surveys the occurrence of emerging contaminants in wastewater, including pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and microplastics, and evaluates the analytical techniques used to detect and remove them. Researchers found that many of these pollutants are not yet covered by environmental regulations despite being widely detected in water systems. The study underscores the need for standardized detection methods and updated policies to address these unregulated contaminants.

2024 IWA Publishing eBooks 4 citations
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Emerging and traditional contaminants in water resources: a review from the perspective of the American continent

This systematic review examines emerging contaminants in water resources across the Americas, including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products. The findings show that current water treatment systems are often inadequate for removing these pollutants, meaning people may be exposed to microplastics and other harmful substances through their drinking water.

2025 Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 1 citations
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A Review of Global Occurrence of Emerging Pollutants in Wastewater: Present Status, Source/Pathway, Extraction and Detection Techniques

This review surveyed global occurrence data for emerging pollutants — including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and PFAS — in wastewater from 1998 to 2021, examining detection methods and contamination levels. The review highlights that many of these compounds are inadequately regulated and poorly removed by conventional wastewater treatment, allowing them to persist in water systems.

2023 Asian Journal of Current Research 2 citations
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Occurrence of Emerging Contaminants in the Environment Causes and Effects

This review defines and categorizes contaminants of emerging concern including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and pesticides, summarizing their sources, environmental occurrence, and potential treatment strategies.

2024 1 citations
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Systematic Review of Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs): Distribution, Risks, and Implications for Water Quality and Health

This systematic review summarizes research on contaminants of emerging concern, including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and industrial chemicals found in water sources. The findings highlight that these pollutants pose real risks to both ecosystems and human health, and that current water treatment methods may not fully remove them.

2023 Water 67 citations
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Pharmaceutically active micropollutants: origin, hazards and removal

This review summarizes existing research on pharmaceutical pollutants -- such as antibiotics, painkillers, and hormones -- found in water systems around the world. While focused on drug contamination, the paper notes that microplastics can act as carriers for these pharmaceutical chemicals, potentially concentrating them and increasing human exposure through drinking water. Conventional water treatment methods are often unable to fully remove these micropollutants.

2024 Frontiers in Microbiology 37 citations
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Emerging contaminants in municipal sewage/sludge: occurrence, risk assessment, and treatment technologies

This review documents the occurrence of emerging contaminants — including pharmaceuticals, microplastics, and endocrine disruptors — in municipal sewage and sludge, assessing their environmental risks and current removal efficiencies. The authors highlight that many contaminants persist through conventional treatment, entering soils via biosolid application and waterways via effluent discharge.

2024 IWA Publishing eBooks
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Emerging pollutants in the environment: A challenge for water resource management

This review surveys emerging pollutants in aquatic environments, including pharmaceuticals, microplastics, nanoparticles, and industrial chemicals that are not commonly monitored in water treatment. Researchers found that over 700 such substances have been identified across 22 countries, many of which persist through conventional water treatment processes. The study emphasizes the urgent need for updated monitoring frameworks and advanced treatment technologies to address these widespread but largely unregulated contaminants.

2015 International Soil and Water Conservation Research 1077 citations
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Potential Effects and Removal Strategies for Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs) in the Circular Economy of Water

This review examines contaminants of emerging concern in water systems, including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and endocrine disruptors, summarizing their occurrence, potential health effects, and the treatment technologies available for their removal.

2024 1 citations