Contaminants of Emerging Concern: Introduction to a Featured Collection<sup>1</sup>

Battaglin, William A.; Kolpin, Dana W.

doi:10.1111/j.1752-1688.2008.00299.x

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“…The sources and routes of CECs into the environment are as varied as the CECs themselves (Figure 1). For example, both industrial and household use and disposal of chemicals can result in the release of those materials into the atmosphere, surface water, and groundwater (Battaglin et al., 2018; Glassmeyer, 2007; Richardson & Kimura, 2017). Wastewater can be a source of both chemical and microbial CECs into the environment (Fairbairn et al., 2016).…”

Section: Known and Suspected Drinking Water Contaminantsmentioning

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Water, Water Everywhere, but Every Drop Unique: Challenges in the Science to Understand the Role of Contaminants of Emerging Concern in the Management of Drinking Water Supplies

Glassmeyer,

Burns,

Focazio

et al. 2023

GeoHealth

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The protection and management of water resources continues to be challenged by multiple and ongoing factors such as shifts in demographic, social, economic, and public health requirements. Physical limitations placed on access to potable supplies include natural and human‐caused factors such as aquifer depletion, aging infrastructure, saltwater intrusion, floods, and drought. These factors, although varying in magnitude, spatial extent, and timing, can exacerbate the potential for contaminants of concern (CECs) to be present in sources of drinking water, infrastructure, premise plumbing and associated tap water. This monograph examines how current and emerging scientific efforts and technologies increase our understanding of the range of CECs and drinking water issues facing current and future populations. It is not intended to be read in one sitting, but is instead a starting point for scientists wanting to learn more about the issues surrounding CECs. This text discusses the topical evolution CECs over time (Section 1), improvements in measuring chemical and microbial CECs, through both analysis of concentration and toxicity (Section 2) and modeling CEC exposure and fate (Section 3), forms of treatment effective at removing chemical and microbial CECs (Section 4), and potential for human health impacts from exposure to CECs (Section 5). The paper concludes with how changes to water quantity, both scarcity and surpluses, could affect water quality (Section 6). Taken together, these sections document the past 25 years of CEC research and the regulatory response to these contaminants, the current work to identify and monitor CECs and mitigate exposure, and the challenges facing the future.

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Water, Water Everywhere, but Every Drop Unique: Challenges in the Science to Understand the Role of Contaminants of Emerging Concern in the Management of Drinking Water Supplies

Glassmeyer,

Burns,

Focazio

et al. 2023

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“…The conference was held in Denver, Colorado, on June 25‐27, 2012, and approximately 125 conference attendees participated in an interdisciplinary forum of more than 75 presentations including keynote or plenary presentations by Dana Kolpin, Jorg Drewes, Heiko Schoenfuss, Chris Metcalfe, Vicki Blazer, and Tyrone Hayes. The first conference was held in 2007 and also produced a featured collection of articles (Battaglin and Kolpin, ).…”

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Featured Collection Introduction: Contaminants of Emerging Concern II

Battaglin

Kolok

2014

J American Water Resour Assoc

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“…Numerous nationwide investigations conducted by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and elsewhere show that unregulated contaminants are present in groundwater, surface water, and finished drinking water throughout the country (6, 8, 12, 18, 19, 21–25, 28, 40, 42, 44, 49, 67–70). In fact, a suite of unregulated contaminants has been detected in virtually all water systems where such analysis has been conducted.…”

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Future Challenges to Protecting Public Health from Drinking-Water Contaminants

Murphy¹,

Post

Buckley

et al. 2012

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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Over the past several decades, human health protection for chemical contaminants in drinking water has been accomplished by development of chemical-specific standards. This approach alone is not feasible to address current issues of the occurrence of multiple contaminants in drinking water, some of which have little health effects information, and water scarcity. In this article, we describe the current chemical-specific paradigm for regulating chemicals in drinking water and discuss some potential additional approaches currently being explored to focus more on sustaining quality water for specific purposes. Also discussed are strategies being explored by the federal government to screen more efficiently the toxicity of large numbers of chemicals to prioritize further intensive testing. Water reuse and water treatment are described as sustainable measures for managing water resources for potable uses as well as other uses such as irrigation.

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Contaminants of Emerging Concern: Introduction to a Featured Collection¹

Cited by 11 publications

References 28 publications

Water, Water Everywhere, but Every Drop Unique: Challenges in the Science to Understand the Role of Contaminants of Emerging Concern in the Management of Drinking Water Supplies

Water, Water Everywhere, but Every Drop Unique: Challenges in the Science to Understand the Role of Contaminants of Emerging Concern in the Management of Drinking Water Supplies

Featured Collection Introduction: Contaminants of Emerging Concern II

Future Challenges to Protecting Public Health from Drinking-Water Contaminants

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Water, Water Everywhere, but Every Drop Unique: Challenges in the Science to Understand the Role of Contaminants of Emerging Concern in the Management of Drinking Water Supplies

Water, Water Everywhere, but Every Drop Unique: Challenges in the Science to Understand the Role of Contaminants of Emerging Concern in the Management of Drinking Water Supplies

Featured Collection Introduction: Contaminants of Emerging Concern II

Future Challenges to Protecting Public Health from Drinking-Water Contaminants

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