Water quality benchmarking (WQB) and priority control screening (PCS) of persistent toxic substances (PTSs) in China: Necessity, method and a case study

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 472, Issue , 2014, Pages 1108-1120

  He, Wei ^a   Qin, Ning ^a   Kong, Xiang Zhen ^a   Liu, Wen Xiu ^a   He, Qi Shuang ^a   Wang, Qing Mei ^a   Yang, Chen ^a   Jiang, Yu Jiao ^a   Yang, Bin ^a   Wu, Wen Jing ^a   Xu, Fu Liu ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Lake Chaohu; Persistent toxic substances; Predicted no effect concentration; Priority control screening; Species sensitivity distribution; Water quality

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BENCHMARKING; CHEMICALS; LAKES; POTABLE WATER; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

LAKE CHAOHU; PERSISTENT TOXIC SUBSTANCES; PREDICTED NO-EFFECT CONCENTRATIONS; PRIORITY CONTROL; SPECIES SENSITIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

DICHLORVOS; DRINKING WATER; MALATHION; OMETHOATE; PARATHION; PHTHALIC ACID DIBUTYL ESTER; SURFACE WATER;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BENCHMARKING; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; ECOTOXICOLOGY; LAKE WATER; POLLUTION CONTROL; TOXIC SUBSTANCE; WATER QUALITY;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HEALTH HAZARD; PRIORITY CONTROL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER QUALITY; WATER QUALITY BENCHMARKING;

ANHUI; CHAOHU LAKE; CHINA;

LAKE CHAOHU; PERSISTENT TOXIC SUBSTANCES; PREDICTED NO-EFFECT CONCENTRATION; PRIORITY CONTROL SCREENING; SPECIES SENSITIVITY DISTRIBUTION; WATER QUALITY;

BENCHMARKING; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84890886862     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.119     Document Type: Article

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