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Organic micropollutants removal in sequential batch reactor followed by nanofiltration from municipal wastewater treatment

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Uptake and Disposition of Select Pharmaceuticals by Bluegill Exposed at Constant Concentrations in a Flow-Through Aquatic Exposure System

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Mass loading of typical artificial sweeteners in a pig farm and their dissipation and uptake by plants in neighboring farmland

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Xenobiotic biotransformation, oxidative stress and obesogenic molecular biomarker responses in Tilapia guineensis from Eleyele Lake, Nigeria

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Traces of tramadol in water impact behaviour in a native European fish

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Monitoring Mixture Effects of Neurotoxicants in Surface Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluents with Neurite Outgrowth Inhibition in SH-SY5Y Cells

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Nontarget Discovery of Antimicrobial Transformation Products in Wastewater Based on Molecular Networks

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Removal of selected sulfonamides and sulfonamide resistance genes from wastewater in full-scale constructed wetlands

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Isolation, characterization and identification of extracellular enzyme producer Bacillus licheniformis from municipal wastewater and evaluation of their biodegradability

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Waterborne pharmaceutical uptake and toxicity is modified by pH and dissolved organic carbon in zebrafish

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Removal and transformation pathways of benzothiazole and benzotriazole in membrane bioreactors treating synthetic municipal wastewater

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Suspect screening analysis of the occurrence and removal of micropollutants by GC-QTOF MS during wastewater treatment processes

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Strategies for selecting indicator compounds to assess attenuation of emerging contaminants during UV advanced oxidation processes

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Competitive and synergic sorption of carbamazepine, citalopram, clindamycin, fexofenadine, irbesartan and sulfamethoxazole in seven soils

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Removal of tri-(2-chloroisopropyl) phosphate (TCPP) by three types of constructed wetlands

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Preparation of Cross-Linked Graphene Oxide on Polyethersulfone Membrane for Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products Removal

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Antifungal drugs in the aquatic environment: A review on sources, occurrence, toxicity, health effects, removal strategies and future challenges

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High resolution mass spectrometry to investigate omeprazole and venlafaxine metabolites in wastewater

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Organic polar pollutants in surface waters of inland seas

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Emerging investigators series: occurrence and fate of emerging organic contaminants in wastewater treatment plants with an enhanced nitrification step

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Sources and trends of artificial sweeteners in coastal waters in the bay of Cadiz (NE Atlantic)

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Investigating tissue bioconcentration and the behavioural effects of two pharmaceutical pollutants on sea trout (Salmo trutta) in the laboratory and field

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Opportunities for coupled electrochemical and ion-exchange technologies to remove recalcitrant micropollutants in water

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Is adsorption onto activated carbon a feasible drinking water treatment option for persistent and mobile substances?

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Multigenerational effects evaluation of the flame retardant tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate (TBOEP) using Daphnia magna

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Efficient sorption of perfluoroalkyl acids by ionic liquid-modified natural clay

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Efficacy of activated carbon filtration and ozonation to remove persistent and mobile substances – A case study in two wastewater treatment plants

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Challenges in Detection of Antibiotics in Wastewater Matrix

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Environmentally relevant concentrations of methamphetamine and sertraline modify the behavior and life history traits of an aquatic invertebrate

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Influence of operational conditions and wastewater properties on the removal of organic micropollutants through ozonation

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Characterization of landfill leachate molecular composition using ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry

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Effects of recirculation in a three-tank pilot-scale system for pharmaceutical removal with powdered activated carbon

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Removal of artificial sweeteners and their effects on microbial communities in sequencing batch reactors

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Contaminant Exposure and Transport from Three Potential Reuse Waters within a Single Watershed

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Simultaneous degradation of the pharmaceuticals gemfibrozil, hydrochlorothiazide and naproxen and toxicity changes during UV-C and UV-C/H2O2 processes in different aqueous matrixes

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Impact of pharmaceuticals and antibiotics waste on the river ecosystem: a growing threat

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Antidepressant pharmaceuticals in aquatic systems, individual-level ecotoxicological effects: growth, survival and behavior

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The oxidative stress in the liver of Carassius auratus exposed to acesulfame and its UV irradiance products

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Uptake and Metabolism of Human Pharmaceuticals by Fish: A Case Study with the Opioid Analgesic Tramadol

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Evaluation of reverse osmosis drinking water treatment of riverbank filtrate using bioanalytical tools and non-target screening

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Removal of selected emerging micropollutants from wastewater treatment plant effluent by advanced non-oxidative treatment - A lab-scale case study from Serbia

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Influence of cosubstrate and hydraulic retention time on the removal of drugs and hygiene products in sanitary sewage in an anaerobic Expanded Granular Sludge Bed reactor

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Thermally activated persulfate oxidation of ampicillin: Kinetics, transformation products and ecotoxicity

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Development of a modified acetonitrile-based extraction procedure followed by ultra-high performance liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry for the analysis of psychiatric drugs in sediments

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Direct injection analysis of polar micropollutants in natural drinking water sources with biphenyl liquid chromatography coupled to high-resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometry

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Microbial community changes induced by Managed Aquifer Recharge activities: linking hydrogeological and biological processes

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A comparison of the photolytic and photocatalytic degradation of fluvastatin

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A combination of six psychoactive pharmaceuticals at environmental concentrations alter the locomotory behavior of clonal marbled crayfish

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Ozonation products from trace organic chemicals in municipal wastewater and from metformin: peering through the keyhole with supercritical fluid chromatography-mass spectrometry

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Polyelectrolyte-assisted interfacial polymerization for polyamide nanofiltration membrane with enhanced separation and anti-biofouling properties in groundwater treatment

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