Data on occurrence and fate of emerging contaminants in a urbanised area

Abstract

These data and analyses support the research article “Mass balance of emerging contaminants in the water cycle of an highly urbanized and industrialized area of Italy” by Castiglioni et al. (2018) [1].The occurrence of 80 emerging contaminats in waste and surface water was investigated in an highly urbanised area of Italy, the River Lambro basin. The data presented here include: (1) concentrations in untreated and treated wastewater of different wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs); (2) concentrations in surface water collected along the river Lambro, in the north and south of the city of Milan (main urban center in the area). These concentrations indicate the distribution and fate of emerging contaminats in the environment.

Occurrence and Human Health Risk Assessment of Pharmaceuticals and Hormones in Drinking Water Sources in the Metropolitan Area of Turin in Italy

“…Caffeine is generally reported as one of the most abundant compounds in the aquatic environment worldwide. However, the concentrations found in this study are significantly lower than those reported in other studies (in the scale of µg/L) [39]. Moreover, ketoprofen was detected in 143 groundwater samples with an average concentration of 6.51 ng/L (0.16-152.98 ng/L), and in 21 surface water samples at an average concentration of 5.84 ng/L (0.43-71.84 ng/L).…”

“…Moreover, ketoprofen was detected in 143 groundwater samples with an average concentration of 6.51 ng/L (0.16-152.98 ng/L), and in 21 surface water samples at an average concentration of 5.84 ng/L (0.43-71.84 ng/L). The wide range of the detected concentrations for ketoprofen is also confirmed from other studies in highly urbanized areas in Italy [12,39] and could be correlated to socioeconomic aspects. From the sixteen target compounds included in this study, only two of them, ofloxacin and erythromycin, were not detected in any of the samples in concentrations higher than their individual LOQs (1.64 ng/L for ofloxacin and 0.81 ng/L erythromycin).…”

Online Third-Order Liquid Chromatographic Data with Native and Photoinduced Fluorescence Detection for the Quantitation of Organic Pollutants in Environmental Water

“…NAP is one of the most commonly found pharmaceutical pollutants in water and as recent examples we remark NAP levels up to 0.55 ng mL –1 and up to 6.3 ng mL –1 detected in surface water and sewage treatment plants, respectively, of urbanized zones of Italy, Spain, USA, and Canada. 13,15,21 Although information related with environmental concentrations of ALB is limited, 16 it is known that levels of anthelmintics in water samples are mostly in the ng L –1 and ng mL –1 range. 31 Very low concentrations of TAM have been measured in different surface water (<0.07 ng mL –1 ), 15,32,33 but higher levels have been found in sewage treatment plants of China (0.224 ng mL –1 ) 34 and in a river water of the U.K. (0.212 ng mL –1 ).…”

Zinc Based Metal-Organic Frameworks as Ofloxacin Adsorbents in Polluted Waters: ZIF-8 vs. Zn3(BTC)2

“…Detailed monitoring, carried out on influents and effluents from different urban wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), located in urbanized and industrialized areas, on rivers that directly receive the discharge from plants, and on those located around the city, demonstrated that standard wastewater treatment plants are ineffective in removing such highly persistent emerging contaminants (EC) [ 1 , 2 ]. Consequently, antibiotic residues re-enter the hydrogeological cycle after the treatment at concentrations ranging from a few tens to hundreds of nanograms per liter [ 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ]. These low concentrations are, however, high enough to cause well-known collateral effects, such as the generation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic-resistant genes (ARG) [ 1 , 6 ].…”