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Wastewater Treatment Plant: Anthropogenic Micropollutant Indicators for Sustainable River Management

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Glossary

Micropollutant:

Pollutant that exists in very small traces in aquatic environment including pharmaceutical drugs and endocrine-disturbing compounds.

Pharmaceuticals:

Chemical substances used in the medical diagnosis, cure, treatment, or prevention of disease.

Metabolites:

Intermediates and products formed by the metabolic transformations of a drug.

Personal care products:

Products used by individuals for personal cosmetic reasons, including fragrances and cosmetics.

Anthropogenic indicator:

Molecular markers of sewage-derived contaminants which is useful for identifying the sources of pollutants and tracing their transport pathways in aquatic environment.

Wastewater effluent:

Wastewater discharge from the wastewater treatment systems based upon physical, chemical, and biological processes.

Octanol-water partitioning coefficient:

Distribution equilibrium of a compound between water and n-octanol (Kow) which is helpful to predict adsorption tendency of a compound.

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This research was supported by the Yeongsan and Seomjin River Watershed Management Committee, Ministry of Environment, Republic of Korea.

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  1. Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, South Korea

    Eunkyung Lee, Sungyun Lee & Yunah Kim

  2. Yeongsan River Environment Research Center, Gwangju, South Korea

    Yu-Jeong Huh & Kap-Soon Kim

  3. Gwangju Institute Science and Technology (GIST), Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Natural Organic Matter Lab, Gwangju, South Korea

    Jaeweon Cho

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Lee, E., Lee, S., Kim, Y., Huh, YJ., Kim, KS., Cho, J. (2012). Wastewater Treatment Plant: Anthropogenic Micropollutant Indicators for Sustainable River Management. In: Zhang, H.X. (eds) Water Sustainability. Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2466-1_843

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