A5022612244- Water resources management and optimization
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
- Multi-Criteria Decision Making
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Educational Games and Gamification
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
- Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment
- Plant and animal studies
- Cognitive Science and Mapping
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Environmental Science and Technology
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
2015-2024
University of Zurich
2002-2004
We assessed the ecotoxicological hazard potential of 42 pharmaceuticals from 22 therapeutic groups, including metabolites formed in humans. treated each parent drug and its as a mixture similarly acting compounds. If physicochemical or effect literature data were missing, we estimated these with quantitative structure−activity relationships (QSAR). Additionally, micropollutant removal efficiency urine source separation using pharmaceutical information. On average, 50% was metabolized, 70%...
ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVFeatureNEXTSource Separation: Will We See a Paradigm Shift in Wastewater Handling?1The example of urine reveals the large potential source separation technologies for sustainable and resource efficient future urban wastewater management.Tove A. Larsen*, Alfredo C. Alder, Rik I. L. Eggen, Max Maurer, Judit LienertView Author Information Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute Aquatic Science Technology, Dübendorf1Editor's Note: To our delight at ES&T, we have started...
Pharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment are raising concern. It is expected that many anthropogenic pharmaceuticals largely excreted via urine; a popular argument for introducing urine source separation. However, to date, this assumption lacks verification. We close gap with quantitative screening of official pharmaceutical data. analysed excretion pathways 212 pharmaceuticals' active ingredients (AI), equalling 1,409 products. On average, 64% (±27%) each AI was urine, and 35% (±26%)...
We analyzed nontarget effects of the β-blockers propranolol, metoprolol, and atenolol with a screening test battery encompassing nonspecific, receptor-mediated, reactive modes toxic action. All were baseline toxicants showed no specific on energy transduction nor endocrine activity in yeast estrogen androgen screen, toxicity toward proteins DNA. However, phytotoxicity assay based inhibition photosynthesis efficiency green algae, all 10 times more than their modeled toxicity. Baseline-...
Environmental decision support intends to use the best available scientific knowledge help makers find and evaluate management alternatives. The goal of this process is achieve fulfillment societal objectives. This requires a careful analysis (i) how can be represented quantified, (ii) preferences described elicited, (iii) these concepts used communication with authorities, politicians, public in environmental management. paper discuss key requirements for conceptual framework address issues...
Recent developments in high- and middle-income countries have exhibited a shift from conventional urban water systems to alternative solutions that are more diverse source separation, decentralization, modularization. These include nongrid, small-grid, hybrid address such pressing global challenges as climate change, eutrophication, rapid urbanization. They close loops, recover valuable resources, adapt quickly changing boundary conditions population size. Moving requires both technical...
Throughout its history, Operational Research has evolved to include methods, models and algorithms that have been applied a wide range of contexts. This encyclopedic article consists two main sections: methods applications. The first summarises the up-to-date knowledge provides an overview state-of-the-art key developments in various subdomains field. second offers wide-ranging list areas where applied. is meant be read nonlinear fashion used as point reference by diverse pool readers:...
Point-source measures have been suggested to decrease pharmaceuticals in water bodies. We analyzed 68 and 50 alternatives, respectively, for a typical Swiss general psychiatric hospital pharmaceutical discharge. Technical alternatives included reverse osmosis, ozonation, activated carbon; organizational urine separation. To handle this complex decision, we used Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) combined expert predictions (e.g., costs, mass flows, ecotoxicological risk, pathogen...