Microplastic concentrations in raw and drinking water in the Sinos River, Southern Brazil

M Ferraz, AL Bauer, VH Valiati, UH Schulz - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
… importance of the Sinos River as a drinking water resource for … concentrations in raw and
treated raw water. We tested the hypothesis that the MP concentrations in the Sinos River water

[HTML][HTML] Contamination by microplastics and sorbed organic pollutants in the surface waters of the Tietê River, São Paulo-SP, Brazil

NG de Moraes, GP Olivatto, FM de Oliveira Lourenço… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
… in The Sinos River, Southern Brazil, indicated … raw river water and 105.8 particles L-1 in
treated water [37]. Thus, it is possible to observe that the concentrations of MPs in the Tietê River

Temporal and spatial distribution of microplastics in the freshwater Atibaia river basin, Campinas-SP, Brazil

GP Olivatto, RA Ando, RF Fernandes, ALA Lourenço… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
… , near the raw water intake of the Campinas-SP Water Treatment Plant. … Our results
indicate that the highest MPs concentrations at sites B and C, Pinheiros Creek and Atibaia …

[PDF][PDF] Status of Brazilian research on microplastics present in aquatic ecosystems: freshwater

B Rani-Borges, TFG Martins, M Pompêo - Panam J Aquat Sci, 2021 - researchgate.net
Microplastic concentrations in raw and treated water from the Sinos River The highest
concentrations were measured at the sampling sites in the … in the Sinos River, Southern Brazil. …

How natural and anthropogenic factors should drive microplastic behavior and fate: The scenario of Brazilian urban freshwater

FF Sodré, IM Arowojolu, MC Canela, RS Ferreira… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
… Due to the high amount of raw wastewater in most of the Brazilian urban waters, the
increasing concentration of organic matter in these environments should impact the aging and …

Microplastic pollution in the Amazon Basin: Current scenario, advances and perspectives

J dos Santos Silva, MJA Cidade, FDS Panero… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
… may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal … North of Brazil still have no
evidence of microplastic pollution … Microplastic abundance in aquatic systems is higher than …

Presence and quantification of microplastic in urban tap water: a pre-screening in Brasilia, Brazil

CB Pratesi, MA AL Santos Almeida, GS Cutrim Paz… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
… that the microplastic content could be higher in the North Wing than in the South Wing.
Moreover, in the same region it is possible to have different concentrations of microplastics for the …

First Evidence of Microplastic Contamination in Freshwater from the Cauamé River, Northern Amazon

JS Silva, ACD Sousa, MJ Cidade, LB Ribeiro… - Northern … - papers.ssrn.com
Brazilian coastline and 59% of the 77 Amazon Basin, Northern Brazil has the least amount of
data on microplastic … period, the river level drops significantly, and part of MP contamination …

Far from urban areas: plastic uptake in fish populations of subtropical headwater streams

AL Bauer, M Ferraz, VC Souza… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2022 - SciELO Brasil
… -thinly populated region of the subtropical Sinos River basin in southern Brazil. In total, 258
Microplastic concentrations in raw and drinking water in the Sinos River, southern Brazil. …

The revelry of plastic! Quali-quantitative variation of microplastics in freshwater before and after Carnival in south-eastern Brazil

ID da Costa, E de Freitas Queiroz… - Marine and …, 2024 - CSIRO Publishing
… (a) Concentration and (b) richness of MPs in surface water of the Paraíba do Sul River,
south-eastern Brazil, before, during and after the Carnival. Small dots around and within boxes …