Sustainable risk management of emerging contaminants in municipal wastewaters

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1904, 2009, Pages 3895-3922

  Martin, O V ^a   Voulvoulis, N ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Endocrine disruption; Risk management; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONTAMINATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; HEALTH RISKS; PHENOLS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER RECYCLING; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

ACTIVE SUBSTANCE; ALKYLPHENOL ETHOXYLATES; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; DECISION TOOL; DOMESTIC SEWAGE; ECOLOGICAL OBJECTIVES; EMERGING CONTAMINANT; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING COMPOUND; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION; HUMAN EXPOSURES; HUMAN HEALTH RISKS; INTERIM MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT MEASURES; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; OESTROGENS; POTENTIAL CONTAMINANTS; POTENTIAL RISKS; PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE; PUBLIC CONCERN; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SCIENTIFIC UNCERTAINTY; SEWAGE EFFLUENTS; SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS; SPECIES SENSITIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS; UK ENVIRONMENT AGENCY; WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVES;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ESTROGEN; PLASTICIZER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEWAGE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTROGENS; HUMANS; PLASTICIZERS; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEWAGE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 70349652810     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0115     Document Type: Article

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