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Persistent Organic Pollutants in Water, Sediments, and Biota in the Ebro River Basin

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The Ebro River Basin

Part of the book series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry ((HEC,volume 13))

Abstract

The Ebro river basin is one of the most studied basins in Spain. The Confederación Hidrográfica del Ebro (CHE), which is the organization in charge of the management of the basin, has different control networks that are operative since 1992. Besides these control networks, there is also a contribution of scientific studies since 1988 to know the distribution of persistent organic pollutants in the basin. Most of these studies are site specific or consider only one family of compounds. Recently, some scientific studies have focused on the basin as a whole, considering several compounds and matrices.

In this chapter, the contribution of the CHE and the research achievements of the EU funded project AQUATERRA (Integrated Modelling of the river–sediment–soil–groundwater system; advanced tools for the management of catchment areas and river basins in the context of global change, Project number 505428 GOCE), together with other findings of the scientific community, to the knowledge about the contamination in the Ebro river basin will be overviewed.

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Abbreviations

APs:

Alkylphenols

BPA:

Bisphenol A

CHE:

Confederación Hidrográfica del Ebro

CYP1A:

Cytochrome p450 1A

EPA:

Environmental Protection Agency

EU:

European Union

HCB:

Hexachlorobenzene

HCH:

Hexachlorocyclohexane

NP:

Nonylphenol

OCs:

Organochlorine pesticides

OP:

Octylphenol

PAHs:

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

PBDEs:

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers

PCA:

Principal component analysis

PCDDs/Fs:

Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins/polychlorinated dibenzofurans

PCBs:

Polychlorinated biphenyls

PPs:

Polar pesticides

RCSP:

Red de control de sustancias peligrosas

TBP:

Tributylphosphate

WFD:

Water Framework Directive

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This work was initiated by the European Union under the Global Change and Ecosystems (FP6) Water Cycle and Soil Related Aspects (AquaTerra, Project number 505428 GOCE) and the Ingenio-consolider 2010 project SCARCE (CSD2009-00065) from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. Alícia Navarro-Ortega provided support by a grant of the Departament d’Universitats, Recerca i Societat de la Informació de la Generalitat de Catalunya (2004FI 00856). This work reflects only authors’ views and the European Community is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained.

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Navarro-Ortega, A., Barceló, D. (2010). Persistent Organic Pollutants in Water, Sediments, and Biota in the Ebro River Basin. In: Barceló, D., Petrovic, M. (eds) The Ebro River Basin. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry(), vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2010_77

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