Water Resources Update

Universities Council on Water Resources

Issue No. 120: September 2001

 

 

Pharmaceuticals and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: Emerging Contaminants in Water

 

 

 

Table of Contents

 

Pharmaceuticals and Endocrine Disruptors in Rivers and On Tap

by Robert W. Masters....... 1

 

Occurrence and Fate of Pharmaceuticals During Bank Filtration – Preliminary Results From Investigations in Germany and the United States by Thomas Heberer, Ingrid M. Verstraeten, Michael T. Meyer,

Andy Mechlinski, and Kirsten Reddersen... 4

 

Removal of Pharmaceutical Residues and Other Persistent Organics From Municipal Sewage and Surface Waters Applying Membrane Filtration by Thomas Heberer, Dirk Feldmann, Kirsten Reddersen, Hans-Jürgen Altmann, and Thomas Zimmermann................. 18

 

Assessment of Potential Antibiotic Contaminants in Water and Preliminary Occurrence Analysis by Ching-Hua Huang, Jay E. Renew, Kristen L. Smeby, Karen Pinkston and David L. Sedlak....... 30

 

Occurrence, Distribution, and Fate of 4-Nonylphenol in Kansas Domestic Wastewater Treatment Plants by K. Xia, H.L. Keller, A. Bhandari, and A. J. Wagner................. 41

 

Effects of Exposure to Low Levels of Water-Borne 17b-Estradiol on Nest Holding Ability and Sperm Quality in Fathead Minnows by Heiko L. Schoenfuss, Dalma Martinovic, and Peter W. Sorensen... 49

 

Factors Affecting the Concentrations of Pharmaceuticals Released to the Aquatic Environment by David L. Sedlak and Karen E. Pinkston... 56