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Tackling emerging contaminants at POTWS.

Pollution Engineering

| November 01, 2006 | Harper, Stephen; Sinha, Parikhit | COPYRIGHT 2006 BNP Media. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Mostly unrealized until a decade ago, a group of chemical contaminants collectively known as endocrine disruptors (EDs) or emerging contaminants (ECs) have been slipping through sewage treatment plants and depositing into streams, lakes and groundwaters worldwide. These contaminants have been implicated in widespread reproductive and immunological damages among many wildlife species [1] (Figure 1).

Effects ascribed to these chemicals are largely irreversible and heritable (via postulated epigenetic expressions). Effects on humans are not as clear but disturbing evidence is emerging for certain chemicals. Modeling suggests that most pharmaceutical compounds that ...

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