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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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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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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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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 Contaminants in waste Water: Detection, and Treatment Innovations

This review comprehensively examines emerging contaminants in wastewater including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and PFAS, covering their detection via LC-MS/MS, GC-MS, and Raman spectroscopy, and reviewing advances in treatment technologies for their removal.

2025 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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A Review of Emerging Environmental Contaminants of Global Concern

This review covers major categories of emerging environmental contaminants including pharmaceuticals, microplastics, pesticides, and endocrine disruptors, summarizing their sources, ecological effects, and detection methods. Recent advances in sensitive analytical techniques have accelerated the identification and monitoring of these pollutants.

2023 4 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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Detection and Treatment of Emerging Contaminants in Wastewater

This book provides a comprehensive overview of how to detect and treat emerging contaminants in wastewater, including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and antibiotic-resistant genes. It covers how microplastics behave in different treatment plants and accumulate in sewage sludge, highlighting gaps in current cleanup methods. The work is important because wastewater treatment is a key point where microplastics can either be captured or released into the environment and eventually into drinking water.

2024 IWA Publishing eBooks 13 citations
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Emerging pollutants in waste water: Challenges and advancements in treatment technology

This review examines the challenges of removing emerging pollutants like microplastics, PFAS, and pharmaceutical residues from wastewater using conventional treatment methods. Researchers found that traditional approaches such as activated sludge and coagulation are often insufficient, while advanced oxidation processes, adsorption-based methods, and novel biological treatments show more promise. The study emphasizes the need for sustainable, energy-efficient solutions and stronger regulatory frameworks to protect water resources.

2024 IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science 7 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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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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Emerging Contaminants in Water: An Overview of Causes, Metrics, and Treatment Methods

This review defined emerging contaminants in water — including pharmaceuticals, microplastics, and endocrine disruptors — and surveyed the metrics used to assess them along with treatment technologies capable of their removal. It highlighted the gap between detection capabilities and treatment effectiveness for many contaminants.

2024
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Emerging Environmental Contaminats of High Concern: Trends, Potential Sources, Friendly Treatment Technologies and Future Prospects

This review examines sources, environmental behavior, and health effects of emerging environmental contaminants -- including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and industrial chemicals -- along with promising treatment technologies for their removal from water and soil.

2024 Preprints.org
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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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A Brief Review of Treatment Methods for Certain Emerging Contaminants in Domestic and Industrial Effluents

This review summarizes emerging contaminant treatment methods for domestic and industrial effluents, covering advanced oxidation, membrane filtration, adsorption, and biological approaches for removing pharmaceuticals, microplastics, and other persistent pollutants.

2024 1 citations
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Environmental and Health Effects of Emerging Contaminants –A Critical Review

Researchers reviewed the environmental and health effects of emerging contaminants including pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and microplastics commonly found in water and soil samples. The study suggests that these contaminants can cause endocrine disruption in exposed organisms and may contribute to the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the environment.

2023 International Journal of Advanced Science and Engineering 9 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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Emerging organic pollutants in aqueousenvironments: Detection, monitoring, andremoval techniques

This review covers detection, monitoring, and removal techniques for emerging organic pollutants in aquatic environments, including microplastics, surveying analytical advances and treatment technologies developed over recent decades.

2021 Journal of Science with Technological Applications 18 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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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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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 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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Identification of biomarkers in wastewater-based epidemiology: Main approaches and analytical methods

This review covers biomarker identification in wastewater-based epidemiology, examining how emerging contaminants including microplastics and pharmaceuticals in wastewater can serve as population-level indicators of disease, health behaviors, and chemical exposures in cities.

2021 TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry 24 citations