Chemical Contaminants in Water Environment: Occurrence, Distribution and Risk Assessment

Dear Colleagues,

Water is a very important natural resource for human needs, especially regarding health. Water pollution is a serious problem and a major global environmental concern. Contaminants enter an aquatic setting  through anthropogenic activities such as sewage sludge disposal, the application of pesticides and inorganic fertilizers, industrial activities and increasing urbanization. These contaminants are non-biodegradable in the environment, and all contaminants are potentially bioavailable and consequentially toxic to the biota and human health. In aquatic systems, potentially toxic contaminants are transported in dissolved or particulate form, where sediment and suspended particles play important roles in contaminant adsorption, desorption and dissolution, and sedimentation processes. Thus, the assessment of pollution in water environments is a determinant, as these areas could receive considerable amounts of pollutant inputs from antropogenic activities. Several emerging pollutants are being detected in the water environment; therefore, the environmental monitoring of pollutants is an essential topic for understanding the impact of certain human activities and defining their consequences for the environmental and human health.

We are pleased to invite you to submit to this Special Issue “Chemical Contaminants in Water Environment: Occurrence, Distribution and Risk Assessment”, with the aim of improving the knowledge on this topic and to enrich public understanding of the pollution of the aquatic environment.

For this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) environmental chemistry and ecotoxicology. We also encourage manuscripts that propose new models and statistical techniques to assess the origin of river pollution, as well as unconventional approaches to gauging the ecological risk.

Prof. Dr. Paolo Montuori
Dr. Elvira De Rosa
Dr. Fabiana Di Duca
Guest Editors

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