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Competitive sorption of linear alkylbenzene sulfonate (LAS) surfactants and the antibiotics sulfamethoxazole and ciprofloxacin in wastewater-irrigated soils of the Mezquital Valley, Mexico

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Abstract

Purpose

The increasing reuse of wastewater for irrigation introduces surfactants and antibiotics into the environment. How these two kinds of compounds interact with regard to their sorption processes in soil is not clear.

Materials and methods

We performed batch experiments to investigate the sorption of linear alkylbenzene sulfonates (LAS) and its effect on sorption of sulfamethoxazole and ciprofloxacin in irrigated and non-irrigated soils with different organic matter (OM) contents.

Results and discussion

LAS sorption was non-linear in the presence of the antibiotics, and as general trend, it increased with rising OM content of soils. Free LAS was also removed from solution by complexation with Ca2+. Dissolved organic compounds released from soils with OM contents ≥18.4 g kg−1 further reduced LAS sorption. Sorption of sulfamethoxazole was reduced by LAS sorption only in one soil with a small OM content of 9.5 g kg−1.

Conclusions

The strong sorption of ciprofloxacin is not affected by LAS. Sulfamethoxazole sorption only competes with LAS sorption in organic matter-poor soils. Accumulation of organic matter in soils, for example due to long-term wastewater irrigation, provides extra sorption capacity for LAS and sulfamethoxazole so that competition for sorption sites is reduced.

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Acknowledgments

We acknowledge funding for a scholarship for MC by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD, Ref. Nr. A/11/79684). Furthermore, this work was jointly co-funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG, grant no. SI 1106/5-1,2) and the Mexican Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT, grant no. I 0110-193-10). We thank Christian Hoffmann for supporting the LC-MS/MS analysis of LAS.

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  1. Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation–Soil Science and Soil Ecology, University of Bonn, 53115, Bonn, Germany

    Manuel Carrillo, Philipp Dalkmann & Jan Siemens

  2. Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México D.F., Mexico

    Christina Siebe

  3. Institute of Soil Science and Soil Conservation, iFZ Research Centre for Biosystems, Land Use and Nutrition, Justus Liebig University Giessen, 35392, Giessen, Germany

    Jan Siemens

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Carrillo, M., Siebe, C., Dalkmann, P. et al. Competitive sorption of linear alkylbenzene sulfonate (LAS) surfactants and the antibiotics sulfamethoxazole and ciprofloxacin in wastewater-irrigated soils of the Mezquital Valley, Mexico. J Soils Sediments 16, 2186–2194 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-016-1418-1

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