In order to evaluate the performance of wastewater treatment strategies and to foster water
reclamation it is necessary to evaluate the removal of water pollutants such as …

The present work illustrates the development of an analytical method, based on offline solid
phase extraction (SPE) followed by liquid chromatography–electron spray ionisation–single …

The occurrence, removal, mass loading, seasonal influence and environmental risk
assessment of nine psychiatric pharmaceuticals and four of their selected metabolites, were …

Many pollutants such as pharmaceuticals and their transformation products (TPs) are not
efficiently removed from wastewater treatment plants and enter into surface waters. The aim …

The dynamic behavior of 24 dissolved pharmaceuticals over tidal cycles in the Yangtze
Estuary, China was studied to assess the tidal impact on the fate of pharmaceutical residues …

The contamination patterns and fate of pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) were
investigated in the Evrotas River (Southern Greece). This is a temporary river with differing …

Eight compounds from three categories of pharmaceuticals [5 antibiotics, 2 non-steroidal
anti-inflammatory drugs, and 1 anti-epileptics] were monitored at 24 sites in the tributaries of …

An eco-friendly strategy for the simultaneous quantification of three emerging
pharmaceutical contaminants is presented. The proposed analytical method, which involves …

This study investigated the occurrence of 11 pharmaceutical compounds in the rivers and
groundwater systems of Arusha City, Tanzania. Each suspected individual residue of active …

Urban–industrial and agricultural waste can add significant amounts of pollutants to surface
water. Therefore, the surface water from Mikri Prespa and Kastoria lakes was assessed for …