Occurrence and behavior of illicit drugs and metabolites in sewage water from the Spanish Mediterranean coast (Valencia region)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 487, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 703-709

  Bijlsma, Lubertus ^a   Serrano, Roque ^a   Ferrer, Carlos ^b   Tormos, Isabel ^b   Hernández, Félix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^b Facsa   (Spain)

Author keywords

Environmental loads; Illicit drugs; Sewage water; STP removal

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; BIOMOLECULES; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS;

DIFFERENT SIZES; EFFLUENT CONCENTRATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL LOADS; ILLICIT DRUG; MEDITERRANEAN COASTS; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; ROUGH ESTIMATION; SEWAGE WATER;

METABOLITES;

3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYAMPHETAMINE; 3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE; AMPHETAMINE; BENZOYLECGONINE; COCAINE; DRUG METABOLITE; ILLICIT DRUG; SEWAGE WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; COASTAL ZONE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRUG; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EFFLUENT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; METABOLITE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEWAGE; WASTE FACILITY; WATER TREATMENT;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DRUG USE; EFFLUENT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASHORE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; SPAIN; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL;

CASTELLON; COMUNIDAD VALENCIA; MEDITERRANEAN COAST [SPAIN]; SPAIN;

ENVIRONMENTAL LOADS; ILLICIT DRUGS; SEWAGE WATER; STP REMOVAL;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SEWAGE; SPAIN; STREET DRUGS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84900550939     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.131     Document Type: Article

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