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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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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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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 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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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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Environmental Contaminants of Emerging Concern: Occurrence and Remediation

This review covers contaminants of emerging concern, including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products, examining their occurrence in the environment and available remediation strategies. Researchers found that these pollutants are widespread but inconsistently regulated, and the study highlights the need for standardized monitoring and effective treatment technologies.

2023 Chemia, Dydaktyka, Ekologia, Metrologia 6 citations
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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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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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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 Aquatic Ecosystems: Sources, Effects, and Mitigation Approaches

This study explores emerging pollutants in aquatic ecosystems, including drug residues, pesticides, heavy metals, and microplastics, examining their sources and ecological impacts. Researchers found that these contaminants accumulate in water bodies through industrial and agricultural pathways and may affect human health through the food chain. The study highlights the need for better monitoring technologies and integrated management strategies to protect water quality.

2024 International Journal of Aquaculture 3 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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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.

2021 Physical Sciences Reviews 7 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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Occurrence, bioaccumulation, fate, and risk assessment of emerging pollutants in aquatic environments: A review

This review summarizes research on five types of emerging pollutants in water, including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, fluorinated chemicals (PFAS), flame retardants, and disinfection byproducts. Wastewater treatment plants are the main source of these pollutants entering waterways, and microplastics along with PFAS and flame retardants can travel long distances and build up in living organisms. While ecological risk was generally assessed as low in most locations, the review highlights gaps in monitoring and the need for better prediction tools to protect water supplies and human health.

2024 The Science of The Total Environment 71 citations
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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.

2017 Environmental Pollution 723 citations
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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 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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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.

2021 Figshare
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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.

2021 Figshare
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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.

2021 Water 19 citations
Systematic Review Tier 1

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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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.

2024 Annals of the Academy of Romanian Scientists Series on Physics and Chemistry 1 citations
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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.

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