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The SOLUTIONS project: Challenges and responses for present and future emerging pollutants in land and water resources management

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BRACK Werner ALTENBURGER Rolf SCHUURMANN Gerrit KRAUSS Martin HERRAEZ David Lopez VAN GILS Jos SLOBODNIK Jaroslav MUNTHE John GAWLIK Bernd Manfred VAN WEZEL Annemarie SCHRIKS Merijn HOLLENDER Juliane TOLLEFSEN Knut Erik MEKENYAN Ovanes DIMITROV Saby BUNKE Dirk COUSINS Ian POSTHUMA Leo VAN DEN BRINK Paul J. DE ALDA Miren Lopez BARCELO Damia FAUST Michael KORTENKAMP Andreas SCRIMSHAW Mark IGNATOVA Svetlana ENGELEN Guy MASSMANN Gudrun LEMKINE Gregory TEODOROVIC Ivana WALZ Karl-Heinz DULIO Valeria JONKER Michael T.O. JAGER Felix CHIPMAN Kevin FALCIANI Francesco LISKA Igor ROOKE David ZHANG Xiaowei HOLLERT Henner VRANA Branislav HILSCHEROVÁ Klára KRAMER Kees NEUMAN Steffen HAMMERBACHER Ruth BACKHAUS Thomas MACK Juliane SEGNER Helmut ESCHER Beate UMBUZEIRO Gisela de Aragao

Year of publication 2015
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Science ot the Total Environment
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Faculty of Science

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Web http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969714008353
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.05.143
Field Water pollution and control
Keywords Effect-based tools; Mixture toxicology; Environmental risk assessment; Water policy; Exposure and risk modelling; Water Framework Directive
Description SOLUTIONS will develop the tools for the identification, prioritisation and assessment of those water contaminants that may pose a risk to ecosystems and human health. To this end, a new generation of chemical and effect-based monitoring tools is developed and integrated with a full set of exposure, effect and risk assessment models. SOLUTIONS attempts to address legacy, present and future contamination by integrating monitoring and modelling based approaches with scenarios on future developments in society, economy and technology and thus in contamination. The project follows a solutions-oriented approach by addressing major problems of water and chemicals management and by assessing abatement options. SOLUTIONS takes advantage of the access to the infrastructure necessary to investigate the large basins of the Danube and Rhine as well as relevant Mediterranean basins as case studies, and puts major efforts on stakeholder dialogue and support. Particularly, the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) Common Implementation Strategy (CIS) working groups, International River Commissions, and water works associations are directly supported. with consistent guidance for the early detection, identification, prioritisation, and abatement of chemicals in the water cycle. SOLUTIONS will give a specific emphasis on concepts and tools for the impact and risk assessment of complex mixtures of emerging pollutants, their metabolites and transformation products. Analytical and effect-based screening tools will be applied together with ecological assessment tools for the identification of toxicants and their impacts. The SOLUTIONS approach is expected to provide transparent and evidence-based candidates or River Basin Specific Pollutants in the case study basins and to assist future review of priority pollutants under the WFD as well as potential abatement options.
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