Wastewater and drinking water treatment technologies
Editors
B. W. Brooks and D. B. Huggett
Document Type
Chapter
Publication Date
2012
Publication Title
Human Pharmaceuticals in the Environment: Current and Future Perspectives
Publisher
Springer
First page number:
225
Last page number:
255
Abstract
Although pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) and endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) are often considered “emerging contaminants,” researchers have been aware of their ubiquity in water for decades. As early as the 1940s, scientists were aware that certain chemicals had the ability to mimic endogenous estrogens and androgens, and in 1965, Stumm-Zollinger and Fair of Harvard University published the first known report indicating that steroid hormones were not completely eliminated by wastewater treatment. In 1977, researchers from the University of Kansas published the first known report of pharmaceutical discharge from a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP).
Keywords
Endocrine disrupting chemicals in water; Drinking water – Drug content; Sewage – Purification; Water – Treatment; Water quality
Disciplines
Environmental Engineering | Environmental Health and Protection | Environmental Sciences | Natural Resources and Conservation | Natural Resources Management and Policy | Water Resource Management
Language
English
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Repository Citation
Gerrity, D.,
Snyder, S. A.
(2012).
Wastewater and drinking water treatment technologies. In B. W. Brooks and D. B. Huggett,
Human Pharmaceuticals in the Environment: Current and Future Perspectives
225-255.
Springer.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3473-3_10