Assessment of groundwater pollution in Tokyo using PPCPs as sewage markers

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1455-1464

  Kuroda, Keisuke ^a   Murakami, Michio ^a   Oguma, Kumiko ^a   Muramatsu, Yuki ^b   Takada, Hideshige ^b   Takizawa, Satoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANK FILTRATION; CARBAMAZEPINE; CONFINED AQUIFERS; DRY-WEATHER FLOWS; E. COLI; GROUND WATER RECHARGE; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; HIGH CONCENTRATION; IRRIGATED FIELDS; LAND SURFACE; MICROBIAL INDICATORS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHARMACEUTICALS AND PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS; SEWER NETWORKS; UNCONFINED AQUIFERS; UNTREATED SEWAGE; URBANIZED AREA;

AMIDES; AQUIFERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FILTRATION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEOLOGY; SEPTIC TANKS; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

CAFFEINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CROTAMITON; DIETHYLTOLUAMIDE; ETHENZAMIDE; GENERAL AND INORGANIC CHEMICALS; GROUND WATER; PHARMACEUTICAL AND PERSONAL CARE PRODUCT; PROPYPHENAZONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRUG; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; INFILTRATION; IRRIGATION; LAND SURFACE; MAGNITUDE; SEWAGE; SEWER NETWORK; URBAN AREA;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; SEWAGE; SPRING; WATER POLLUTION;

ANTIPYRINE; CAFFEINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; COSMETICS; DEET; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROUNDWATER; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SALICYLAMIDES; SEWAGE; TERPENES; TOKYO; TOLUIDINES; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOKYO [KANTO];

EID: 84856747094     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es202059g     Document Type: Article

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