Emerging Contaminants in Water Environment: Sources and Hazards
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (12 March 2023) | Viewed by 2922
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microplastics; nanomaterials; co-existing pollutants; aquatic environment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Emerging contaminants (ECs) constitute a suite of manmade or naturally occurring chemicals for which concerns have recently been mounting. Recent advances in analytical techniques have facilitated the discovery and quantitation of numerous ECs. The most prevalent ECs in the aquatic environment include micro- and nanoplastics, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, disinfection byproducts, manufactured nanomaterials, and pharmaceuticals and personal care products.
The aquatic environment continually suffers from contamination due to elevated levels of ECs, which result from multiple pollution sources, including storm runoff, fisheries, landfill leachate, as well as municipal, industrial, and agricultural wastewater discharge. Due to the ubiquity of numerous ECs in the water, their ecotoxicological effects on the aquatic organisms became known and include reduced eco-function and nutritional quality, bioaccumulation and biomagnification, and various acute and chronic toxicities. Therefore, establishing state-of-art protocols for pollution source identification and risk assessment of ECs in various aquatic compartments is urgently needed.
This Special Issue aims to collect original, high-quality articles related to the identification of the key sources, transfer mechanisms, and environmental behavior of ECs and discuss the hazards and risks that ECs pose to the aquatic ecosystems. Research papers covering multidisciplinary topics as well as review papers with new perspectives are welcome for submission
Dr. Qiqing Chen
Dr. Yan Wu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- microplastics and nanomaterials
- per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances(PFAS)
- pharmaceuticals and personal care products(PPCPs)
- emerging industrial additives
- source identification/apportionment
- ecotoxicological effects
- risk assessment
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