Human Fecal Contamination Corresponds to Changes in the Freshwater Bacterial Communities of a Large River Basin

Surface waters in highly developed mixed-use watersheds are frequently impacted by a wide variety of pollutants, leading to a range of impairments that must be monitored and remediated. With advancing technologies, microbial community sequencing may soon become a feasible method for routine evaluation of the ecological quality and human health risk of a water body.

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Human health risk assessments for three neuropharmaceutical compounds in surface waters

Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology ◽

10.1016/j.yrtph.2008.01.014 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 50 (3) ◽

pp. 420-427 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

Joel P. Bercu ◽

Neil J. Parke ◽

Janice M. Fiori ◽

Roger D. Meyerhoff

Keyword(s):

Health Risk ◽

Human Health ◽

Surface Waters ◽

Human Health Risk ◽

Risk Assessments ◽

Health Risk Assessments

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Human health risk assessment of carbamazepine in surface waters of North America and Europe

Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology ◽

10.1016/j.yrtph.2009.10.006 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 56 (3) ◽

pp. 343-351 ◽

Cited By ~ 60

Author(s):

Virginia L. Cunningham ◽

Christopher Perino ◽

Vincent J. D’Aco ◽

Andreas Hartmann ◽

Rudolf Bechter

Keyword(s):

Risk Assessment ◽

North America ◽

Health Risk ◽

Human Health ◽

Health Risk Assessment ◽

Surface Waters ◽

Human Health Risk ◽

Human Health Risk Assessment

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Human health risk assessment of dissolved metals in groundwater and surface waters in the Melen watershed, Turkey

Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part A ◽

10.1080/10934529.2013.838842 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 49 (2) ◽

pp. 153-161 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Ahmet Çelebi ◽

Bülent Şengörür ◽

Bjørn Kløve

Keyword(s):

Risk Assessment ◽

Health Risk ◽

Human Health ◽

Health Risk Assessment ◽

Surface Waters ◽

Human Health Risk ◽

Human Health Risk Assessment ◽

Dissolved Metals

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Surface and Groundwater Pollution: the Invisible, Creeping Threat to Human Health

Civil and Environmental Engineering ◽

10.2478/cee-2020-0016 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 157-169

Author(s):

Hammad Ahmed Shah ◽

Muhammad Sheraz ◽

Afed Ullah Khan ◽

Fayaz Ahmad Khan ◽

Liaqat Ali Shah ◽

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Keyword(s):

Trace Elements ◽

Health Risk ◽

Human Health ◽

Surface Waters ◽

Best Management Practices ◽

Control Point ◽

Human Health Risk ◽

Adults And Children ◽

Surface And Groundwater ◽

Dissolved Trace Elements

AbstractThis study reports pollution source apportionment of surface waters and human health risk assessment based on 18 physicochemical and traces elements from 24 water quality monitoring sites for surface and groundwater around the two trans-boundary rivers of Pakistan: The Ravi and Sutlej. The principal component analysis identified 6 principal components (76.98 % cumulative variance) which are mainly caused by untreated industrial effluents, intense agricultural activities, and irrigation tailwater discharges. For all dissolved trace elements in surface waters, health hazard indices (HI) and hazard quotients (HQ) through ingestion and dermal contact are < 1 except As and Cr through ingestion only (for both adults and children). For adults and children, the HQingestion and HI values for As, Mn, Cu (for children only) and As, Fe, Mn (for children only) are > 1, indicating that As, Mn, Fe, and Cu are the most important pollutants causing chronic risks among the selected trace elements in both shallow and deep groundwater respectively. HQingestion, HQdermal, and HI values are higher for children than that of adults which shows the high susceptibility of children to these dissolved trace elements. The carcinogenic indices for the entire surface water elements exceed 10−6 through dermal and ingestion pathways suggesting carcinogenic health risk to the surrounding community. Hence, to protect human health, wastewater treatment plants and best management practices should be practiced to control point source and nonpoint source pollution respectively in the understudied area.

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