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ClearA 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.
Occurrence, fate, and toxicity of emerging contaminants in a diverse ecosystem
This review examined the occurrence, fate, and toxicity of emerging contaminants including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and endocrine disruptors across diverse ecosystems, tracing their pathways from wastewater treatment systems into natural environments.
Emerging pollutants in water environment: Occurrence, monitoring, fate, and risk assessment
This review summarizes research published in 2018 on emerging pollutants in water environments, covering their occurrence, detection methods, environmental fate, and ecological toxicity. Researchers highlight the challenge of assessing the vast number of emerging compounds, including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products, that are now routinely found in water systems. The study emphasizes the need for improved analytical methods and risk assessment frameworks to address this growing category of environmental contaminants.
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.
Occurrence, fate and transformation of emerging contaminants in water: An overarching review of the field
This overview reviewed the occurrence, fate, and transformation of emerging contaminants — including microplastics and chemical pollutants — in water, summarizing what is known about their behavior from entry to breakdown in aquatic systems.
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.
Research progress on source, risk assessment, and management of emerging pollutants in drinking water.
This Chinese review covers emerging drinking water pollutants including microplastics, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), and antibiotics, examining their sources, environmental pathways, and health risk frameworks. The authors highlight microplastics as a particularly complex challenge due to their ability to adsorb and co-transport other toxic contaminants into drinking water supplies.
Emerging Contaminants (PFAS, Microplastics, Pharmaceuticals): Detection, Fate, and Remediation Strategies - A Review
This review consolidates current knowledge on the sources, environmental behavior, detection methods, and remediation strategies for three classes of persistent emerging contaminants — PFAS, microplastics, and pharmaceuticals — highlighting the need for comprehensive regulatory and monitoring approaches.
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.
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.
New Aspects of Occurrence and Removal of Emerging Pollutants
This review introduced new perspectives on emerging pollutants including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and PFAS, examining their occurrence in water, soil, and air and reviewing both conventional and advanced removal technologies, concluding that integrated treatment approaches are needed to address the complexity of multi-pollutant contamination.
Which\nMicropollutants in Water Environments Deserve\nMore Attention Globally?
This review analyzed which organic micropollutants in water environments deserve the most global attention based on their toxicity, occurrence frequency, and persistence. Microplastics are among the contaminants considered, alongside pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and industrial chemicals that routinely escape conventional water treatment and accumulate in aquatic ecosystems.
Which\nMicropollutants in Water Environments Deserve\nMore Attention Globally?
This review analyzed which organic micropollutants in water environments deserve the most global attention based on their toxicity, occurrence frequency, and persistence. Microplastics are among the contaminants considered, alongside pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and industrial chemicals that routinely escape conventional water treatment and accumulate in aquatic ecosystems.
Occurrence, sustainable treatment technologies, potential sources, and future prospects of emerging pollutants in aquatic environments: a review
This review covers emerging contaminants in water, including microplastics, PFAS, antibiotics, and other persistent pollutants, along with the latest treatment technologies for removing them. Methods like membrane filtration, advanced oxidation, and biochar adsorption show promise but each has limitations in real-world application. The review highlights the urgent need for effective water treatment solutions, since these pollutants increasingly contaminate drinking water sources and pose risks to human health.
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.
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.
Wastewater treatment plant effluent as a source of microplastics: review of the fate, chemical interactions and potential risks to aquatic organisms
This review examines wastewater treatment plant effluent as a source of microplastics entering aquatic environments. The study found that even though treatment plants remove most microplastics, the small amounts remaining in effluent may still contribute significantly to environmental contamination, and the chemical interactions between microplastics and other pollutants in wastewater raise additional ecological concerns.
Emerging Pollutants in the Environment. I. Sources, Accumulation, and Ecological Implications
This review characterized emerging pollutants including pharmaceuticals, personal care products, industrial chemicals, pesticides, nanomaterials, and microplastics in environmental compartments, focusing on their persistence and ecological implications. The paper analyzed how these pollutants accumulate in water, soil, air, and biota, disrupting reproductive health, metabolic functions, and biodiversity.
Impact of Emerging Contaminants on Aquatic Ecosystems: A Mini-Review
This mini-review examines how emerging contaminants—pharmaceuticals, pesticides, microplastics, and PFAS—enter aquatic ecosystems from industrial, urban, and agricultural sources, and summarizes their documented impacts on biodiversity and human health.
Analysis and fate of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the global aquatic environment: perspectives and combined risks with microplastics
This review provided a comprehensive overview of PFAS fate, transport, and toxicity in global aquatic environments, with particular attention to analytical challenges for ultrashort-chain compounds. The authors also addressed combined risks from PFAS and microplastics co-occurring in water, noting synergistic contamination concerns.
Occurrence and Distribution of Emerging Contaminants: Ozonolytic Removal in Aqueous Matrices
This review examines emerging contaminants (ECs) -- including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and pesticides -- across multiple environmental habitats, and assesses ozonolysis as a removal strategy for EC-contaminated aqueous matrices. The authors evaluate ozone-based treatment efficiency across contaminant classes and discuss conditions that optimize removal of both chemical pollutants and associated microplastic particles.
Environmental Fate of Emerging Organic Micro-Contaminants
This review covers the sources, fate, and toxicity of pharmaceuticals and other organic micropollutants in natural and built environments. It examines how these contaminants, which often co-occur with microplastics, persist in water systems and affect aquatic organisms.
Pharmaceuticals and Microplastics in Aquatic Environments: A comprehensive Review of Pathways and Distribution, Toxicological and Ecological
This review examines how pharmaceuticals and microplastics travel through aquatic environments via wastewater, agricultural runoff, and air, and how they affect fish and other aquatic life. Both pollutants build up in the food chain through a process called biomagnification, potentially reaching humans who eat seafood. The authors call for better monitoring and treatment methods to reduce these emerging threats to water quality and public health.
Emerging Pollutants in the Environment
This introductory chapter defines emerging pollutants as unregulated chemicals of ecological and human health concern, categorizing microplastics, endocrine disruptors, pharmaceuticals, and disinfection byproducts as priority contaminants requiring new monitoring and regulatory frameworks.