Xenobiotics in the Urban Water Cycle

1. Quantitative Mass Flows of Selected Xenobiotics in Urban Waters and Waste Water Treatment Plants
Kai Bester, Christa S. McArdell, Cajsa Wahlberg, Thomas D. Bucheli

2. Identifying and Classifying the Sources and Uses of Xenobiotics in Urban Environments
Erica Donner, Eva Eriksson, Hans-Christian Holten-Lützhøft, Lian Scholes, Mike Revitt, Anna Ledin

3. Illicit Drugs in the Urban Water Cycle
Maria Huerta-Fontela, Maria Teresa Galceran, Francesc Ventura

4. Precious Metals in Urban Aquatic Systems: Platinum, Palladium and Rhodium: Sources, Occurrence, Bioavailability and Effects
Nadine Haus, Sonja Zimmermann, Bernd Sures

5. Fate and Effects of Little Investigated Scents in the Aquatic Environment
Richard Bolek, Klaus Kümmerer

6. Sources and Occurrence of Cyanotoxins Worldwide
Miguel Pelaez, Maria G. Antoniou, Xuexiang He, Dionysios D. Dionysiou, Armah A. Cruz, Katerina Tsimeli, Theodoros Triantis, Anastasia Hiskia, Triantafyllos Kaloudis, Christopher Williams, Mark Aubel, Andrew Chapman, Amanda Foss, Urooj Khan, Kevin E. O’Shea, Judy Westrick

7. Occurrence and Measurements of Organic Xenobiotic Compounds in Harbour and Coastal Sediments
Giusy Lofrano, Anastasia Nikolaou, Maria Kostopoulou, Giovanni Pagano, Vincenzo Belgiorno, Rodolfo Maria Alessandro Napoli

8. Determination of Sources and Emissions of Persistent Organic Contaminants by Means of Sewage Sludge: Results from a Monitoring Network
Thomas Kupper, Luiz Felippe Alencastro, Jean-Daniel Berset

9. Metabolic and Co-metabolic Degradation of Industrially Important Chlorinated Organics Under Aerobic Conditions
Ferhan Çeçen, Bilge Alpaslan Kocamemi, Özgür Aktaş

10. Photochemical Transformation of Pharmaceuticals in the Aquatic Environment: Reaction Pathways and Intermediates
Ioannis K. Konstantinou, Dimitra A. Lambropoulou, Triantafyllos A. Albanis

11. The Challenge of the Identification and Quantification of Transformation Products in the Aquatic Environment Using High Resolution Mass Spectrometry
Juliane Hollender, Heinz Singer, Dolores Hernando, Tina Kosjek, Ester Heath

12. Transport and Fate of Xenobiotics in the Urban Water Cycle: Studies in Halle/Saale and Leipzig (Germany)
Mario Schirmer, Frido Reinstorf, Sebastian Leschik, Andreas Musolff, Ronald Krieg, Karsten Osenbrück, Marion Martien, Kristin Schirmer, Gerhard Strauch

13. Pharmaceutical Contaminants in Urban Water Cycles: A Discussion of Novel Concepts for Environmental Risk Assessment
Stefan Scholz, Kristin Schirmer, Rolf Altenburger

14. Hydroxy Benzoate Preservatives (Parabens) in the Environment: Data for Environmental Toxicity Assessment
Ingrid Bazin, Aurelie Gadal, Eveline Touraud, Benoit Roig

15. Efficiency of Removal of Compounds with Estrogenic Activity During Wastewater Treatment: Effects of Various Removal Techniques
M. H. Lamoree, J. G. M. Derksen, S. C. Linden, C. A. Uijterlinde, P Voogt

16. Criteria for Designing Sewage Treatment Plants for Enhanced Removal of Organic Micropollutants
Francisco Omil, Sonia Suárez, Marta Carballa, Rubén Reif, Juan M. Lema

17. Xenobiotics Removal by Membrane Technology: An Overview
Andrea J. C. Semião, Andrea I. Schäfer

18. Membrane BioReactors: A Cost-Effective Solution to Enhance the Removal of Xenobiotics from Urban Wastewaters?
Francesco Fatone

19. Removal of Xenobiotics from Wastewater in Sequencing Batch Reactors: Conventional and Two-Phase Configurations
M. Concetta Tomei, M. Cristina Annesini, Andrew J. Daugulis

20. Fate and Occurrence of Surfactants-Derived Alkylphenolic Compounds in Conventional and Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) Wastewater Treatment Plants
Mira Petrovi`c, Damià Barceló

21. Removal of Xenobiotic Compounds from Water and Wastewater by Advanced Oxidation Processes
Despo Fatta-Kassinos, Evroula Hapeshi, Sixto Malato, Dionisis Mantzavinos, Luigi Rizzo, Nikos P. Xekoukoulotakis

22. Biological, Chemical and Photochemical Treatment of Commercially Important Naphthalene Sulphonates
Idil Arslan-Alaton, Tugba Olmez-Hanci

23. Uptake of Xenobiotics from Polluted Waters by Plants
Tomas Vanek, Radka Podlipna, Zuzana Fialova, Sarka Petrova, Petr Soudek

24. Treatment Techniques and Analysis of Stormwater Run-off from Roads in Hamburg, Germany
Burkhard Stachel, Jens-Uwe Holthuis, Wolfgang Schulz, Wolfram Seitz, Walter H. Weber, Klaus-Thorsten Tegge, Ingo Dobner

25. Options for Mitigation: An Overview of Measures
Cajsa Wahlberg, Arne Jamtrot

26. Outlook
Kai Bester, Despo Fatta-Kassinos, Klaus Kümmerer

Keywords: Environment, Environment, general, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Ecotoxicology, Environmental Monitoring/Analysis, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Health