Which chemicals drive biological effects in wastewater and recycled water?

Removal of organic micropollutants from wastewater during secondary treatment followed by reverse osmosis and UV disinfection was evaluated by a combination of four in-vitro cell-based bioassays and chemical analysis of 299 organic compounds. Concentrations detected in recycled water were below the...

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Main Authors: Tang, J., Busetti, Francesco, Charrois, Jeffrey, Escher, B.
Format: Journal Article
Published: IWA Publishing 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/20296
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author Tang, J.
Busetti, Francesco
Charrois, Jeffrey
Escher, B.
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Charrois, Jeffrey
Escher, B.
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description Removal of organic micropollutants from wastewater during secondary treatment followed by reverse osmosis and UV disinfection was evaluated by a combination of four in-vitro cell-based bioassays and chemical analysis of 299 organic compounds. Concentrations detected in recycled water were below the Australian Guidelines for Water Recycling. Thus the detected chemicals were considered not to pose any health risk. The detected pesticides in the wastewater treatment plant effluent and partially advanced treated water explained all observed effects on photosynthesis inhibition. In contrast, mixture toxicity experiments with designed mixtures containing all detected chemicals at their measured concentrations demonstrated that the known chemicals explained less than 3% of the observed cytotoxicity and less than 1% of the oxidative stress response. Pesticides followed by pharmaceuticals and personal care products dominated the observed mixture effects. The detected chemicals were not related to the observed genotoxicity. The large proportion of unknown toxicity calls for effect monitoring complementary to chemical monitoring.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-202962019-02-19T05:35:00Z Which chemicals drive biological effects in wastewater and recycled water? Tang, J. Busetti, Francesco Charrois, Jeffrey Escher, B. Bioanalytical equivalent Concentrations Reverse osmosis Mixture toxicity Recycled water Effect-based monitoring Removal of organic micropollutants from wastewater during secondary treatment followed by reverse osmosis and UV disinfection was evaluated by a combination of four in-vitro cell-based bioassays and chemical analysis of 299 organic compounds. Concentrations detected in recycled water were below the Australian Guidelines for Water Recycling. Thus the detected chemicals were considered not to pose any health risk. The detected pesticides in the wastewater treatment plant effluent and partially advanced treated water explained all observed effects on photosynthesis inhibition. In contrast, mixture toxicity experiments with designed mixtures containing all detected chemicals at their measured concentrations demonstrated that the known chemicals explained less than 3% of the observed cytotoxicity and less than 1% of the oxidative stress response. Pesticides followed by pharmaceuticals and personal care products dominated the observed mixture effects. The detected chemicals were not related to the observed genotoxicity. The large proportion of unknown toxicity calls for effect monitoring complementary to chemical monitoring. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/20296 10.1016/j.watres.2014.04.043 IWA Publishing fulltext
spellingShingle Bioanalytical equivalent Concentrations
Reverse osmosis
Mixture toxicity
Recycled water
Effect-based monitoring
Tang, J.
Busetti, Francesco
Charrois, Jeffrey
Escher, B.
Which chemicals drive biological effects in wastewater and recycled water?
title Which chemicals drive biological effects in wastewater and recycled water?
title_full Which chemicals drive biological effects in wastewater and recycled water?
title_fullStr Which chemicals drive biological effects in wastewater and recycled water?
title_full_unstemmed Which chemicals drive biological effects in wastewater and recycled water?
title_short Which chemicals drive biological effects in wastewater and recycled water?
title_sort which chemicals drive biological effects in wastewater and recycled water?
topic Bioanalytical equivalent Concentrations
Reverse osmosis
Mixture toxicity
Recycled water
Effect-based monitoring
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/20296