Organic Pollutants in the Water Cycle provides the first in-depth and comprehensive reference for all relevant compound classes and their behaviour in the whole water cycle.

Features:

• All chapters are unifomly structured covering properties, pollution sources, occurrence in waste water, surface water, groundwater as well as water treatment aspects

Contents

Analytical Methods for Polar Pollutants

• The Analytical Process
• Sample Pretreatment and Analyte Extraction
• Gas Chromatographic Methods
• Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry

Residues of Pharmaceuticals from Human Use

• Routes into the Environment
• Wastewater
• Surface Water
• Groundwater and Underground Passage
• Drinking Water Treatment

Antibiotics for Human Use

• Use of Antibiotics
• Emissions into the Environment
• Occurrence and Fate of Antibiotics
• Elimination and Degradation in the Aquatic Environment
• Effects on Aquatic Organisms

Iodinated X-ray Contrast Media

• Source
• Wastewater Treatment
• Receiving Water
• Groundwater/Exposed Groundwater

Veterinary Pharmaceuticals

• Substance Classes
• Pathways to the Environment
• Occurrence in Wastewater Treatment Plants
• Surface Waters
• Groundwater
• Water Treatment

Polar Herbicides and Metabolites

• Entry into the Environment
• Polar Herbicides in Wastewater
• Polar Herbicides in Surface Water
• Polar Herbicides in Groundwater
• Water Treatment

Aminopolycarboxylate Complexing Agents

• Applications and Consumption
• Occurrence and Fate in Wastewaters
• Occurrence and Fate in Surface Waters
• Occurrence and Fate in Groundwater
• Behavior during Drinking Water Processing

Amines

• Production
• Emission
• Wastewater and Wastewater Treatment
• Surface Water
• Groundwater
• Drinking Water and Drinking Water Treatment

Surfactant Metabolites

• Aerobic Biodegradation of Surfactants
• Surfactants and Metabolites in Wastewater Treatment Plants
• Surfactants and Metabolites in Surface Waters
• Surfactants and Metabolites in Subsoil/Underground Passage
• Surfactants and Metabolites in Drinking Waters

Trihalomethanes (THMs), Haloacetic Acids (HAAs), and Emerging Disinfection By-products in Drinking Water

• Regulations
• Reactants Leading to DBP Formation
• Occurrence of DBPs
• Measures to Control DBPs

Toxicology and Risk Assessment of Pharmaceuticals

• A Comparison of International Risk Assessment Procedures
• The Toxicological Data Set for Environmental Risk Assessment

Assessment and Management of Chemicals – How Should Persistent Polar Pollutants be Regulated

• Chemicals Assessment and Management Today
• Future Chemicals Management in Europa with REACH
• Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and Persistent Polar Pollutants (PPPs) – A Comparison

Index

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