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Fish living near two wastewater treatment plants have unaltered thermal tolerance but show changes in organ and tissue traits

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Integrating powdered activated carbon into wastewater tertiary filter for micro-pollutant removal

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Membrane Bioreactor for Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products Removal From Wastewater

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Simulating Effluent Organic Matter Competition in Micropollutant Adsorption onto Activated Carbon Using a Surrogate Competitor

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A microbial sensor platform based on bacterial bioluminescence (luxAB) and green fluorescent protein (gfp) reporters for in situ monitoring of toxicity of wastewater nitrification process dynamics

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Wastewater-borne pollutants influenced antibiotic resistance genes and mobile genetic elements in the soil without affecting the bacterial community composition in a changing wastewater irrigation system

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Evaluating the application of Microbacterium sp. strain BR1 for the removal of sulfamethoxazole in full-scale membrane bioreactors

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Teratogenic effects of five anticancer drugs on Xenopus laevis embryos

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Post-treatment of ozonated wastewater with activated carbon and biofiltration compared to membrane bioreactors: Toxicity removal in vitro and in Potamopyrgus antipodarum

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Record of trace organic contaminants in a river sediment core: From historical wastewater management to historical use

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Social status modulates the behavioral and physiological consequences of a chemical pollutant in animal groups

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Spatial variation of rodenticides and emerging contaminants in blood of raptor nestlings from Germany

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Theoretical investigation on degradation of DEET by •OH in aqueous solution: Mechanism, kinetics, process optimization and toxicity evaluation

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Impact of log(Kow) Value on the Extraction of Antibiotics from River Sediments with Pressurized Liquid Extraction

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Removal of organic micropollutants from wastewater effluent: Selective adsorption by a fixed-bed granular zeolite filter followed by in-situ ozone-based regeneration

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Performance of Micropollutant Removal during Wet-Weather Conditions in Advanced Treatment Stages on a Full-Scale WWTP

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A multi-scenario risk assessment strategy applied to mixtures of chemicals of emerging concern in the River Aconcagua basin in Central Chile

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Degradation of exogenous caffeine by Populus alba and its effects on endogenous caffeine metabolism

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Optimizing the flocculation of powdered activated carbon in wastewater treatment by dosing iron salt in single- and two-stage processes

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Azoles additively inhibit cytochrome P450 1 (EROD) and 19 (aromatase) in rainbow trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss )

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Quantification of Pharmaceutical Related Biological Activity in Effluents from Wastewater Treatment Plants in UK and Japan

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Oxazepam Alters the Behavior of Crayfish at Diluted Concentrations, Venlafaxine Does Not

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Effects of conventionally-treated and ozonated wastewater on mortality, physiology, body length, and behavior of embryonic and larval zebrafish (Danio rerio)

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Clayey–sand filter for the removal of pharmaceuticals from wastewater effluent: percolation experiments

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Removal of clarithromycin from aqueous solution using water/triton X-100/ ethanol/ olive oil green nanoemulsion method

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Reconnaissance of cumulative risk of pesticides and pharmaceuticals in Great Smoky Mountains National Park streams

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Status and needs for online control of tertiary ozone-based water treatment: use of surrogate correlation models for removal of trace organic contaminants

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Plasmids Can Shift Bacterial Morphological Response against Antibiotic Stress

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Sorption of Organic Micropollutants to an Agricultural Soil: Effect of Ionic Strength, Cation Valence and pH

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Aeration-assisted removal of tetracycline from wastewater by biochar: mechanisms and cost-benefit analysis

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Removal of tramadol hydrochloride, an emerging pollutant, from aqueous solution using gamma irradiation combined by nanofiltration

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Uptake and Transport of Different Concentrations of PPCPs by Vegetables

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Selective accumulation of pharmaceutical residues from 6 different soils by plants: a comparative study on onion, radish, and spinach

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Denatonium – A so far unrecognized but ubiquitous water contaminant?

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Occurrence and geodatabase mapping of three contaminants of emerging concern in receiving water and at effluent from waste water treatment plants – A first overview of the situation in the Republic of Ireland

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Impact of Pharmaceutical Waste on Biodiversity

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A Review of Micropollutant Removal by Microalgae

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Spatial and temporal variations of antibiotics in a tidal river

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Do environmental pharmaceuticals affect the composition of bacterial communities in a freshwater stream? A case study of the Knivsta river in the south of Sweden

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Fishing in troubled waters: Revealing genomic signatures of local adaptation in response to freshwater pollutants in two macroinvertebrates

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Untargeted characterisation of dissolved organic matter contributions to rivers from anthropogenic point sources using direct‐infusion and high‐performance liquid chromatography/Orbitrap mass spectrometry

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Benzotriazole concentrations in airport runoff are reduced following changes in airport deicer formulations

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Holistic approach to chemical and microbiological quality of aquatic ecosystems impacted by wastewater effluent discharges

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Effects of antibiotics on corncob supported solid-phase denitrification: Denitrification and antibiotics removal performance, mechanism, and antibiotic resistance genes

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Xenobiotics: Sources, Pathways, Degradation, and Risk Associated with Major Emphasis on Pharmaceutical Compounds

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Photocatalytic removal of the antidepressant fluoxetine from aqueous media using TiO2 P25 and g-C3N4 catalysts

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Distribution of Pharmaceutical Residues in the Environment

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Identification of first and second generation ozonation transformation products of niflumic acid by LC-QToF-MS

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Trace organic contaminants within solid matrices along an anthropized watercourse: Organo-mineral controls on their spatial distribution

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Removal of organic micropollutants by well-tailored granular zeolites and subsequent ozone-based regeneration

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Pivotal role of municipal wastewater resource recovery facilities in urban agriculture: A review

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Ciprofloxacin Removal Using Pillared Clays

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Correlations between China’s socioeconomic status, disease burdens, and pharmaceuticals and personal care product levels in wastewater

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Degradation of micropollutants by gamma irradiation: Insight of transformation product formation explored by suspect and non-target screening using LC-HRMS

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Combined effects of climate warming and pharmaceuticals on a tri-trophic freshwater food web

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