Micropollutant removal from wastewater: Facts and decision-making despite uncertainty

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 6374-6375

  Stamm, Christian ^a   Eggen, Rik I L ^a,b   Hering, Janet G ^a,b   Hollender, Juliane ^a,b   Joss, Adriano ^a   Schärer, Michael ^c  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Bundesamt fur Umweltschutz   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; WATER;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; DECISION MAKING; GOVERNMENT; MICROPOLLUTANT; NOTE; POLLUTANT; SCIENCE; SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SWISS; SWITZERLAND; UNCERTAINTY; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84930613525     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b02242     Document Type: Note

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