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Greywater irrigation as a source of organic micro-pollutants to shallow groundwater and nearby surface water
| العنوان: | Greywater irrigation as a source of organic micro-pollutants to shallow groundwater and nearby surface water |
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| المؤلفون: | Turner, Ryan DR, Warne, Michael St J, Dawes, Les A, Thompson, Kristie, Will, Geoffrey D |
| بيانات النشر: | Elsevier |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| المجموعة: | Griffith University: Griffith Research Online |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Environmental sciences, Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Environmental Sciences & Ecology, Greywater |
| الوصف: | Increased water demands due to population growth and increased urbanisation have driven adoption of various water reuse practices. The irrigation of greywater (water from all household uses, except toilets) has been proposed as one potential sustainable practice. Research has clearly identified environmental harm from the presence of micro-pollutants in soils, groundwater and surface water. Greywater contains a range of micro pollutants yet very little is known about their potential environmental fate when greywater is irrigated to soil. Therefore, this study assessed whether organic micro-pollutants in irrigated greywater were transferred to shallow groundwater and an adjacent surface waterway. A total of 22 organic micro-pollutants were detected in greywater. Six of these (acesulfame, caffeine, DEET, paracetamol, salicylic acid and triclosan) were selected as potential tracers of greywater contamination. Three of these chemicals (acesulfame, caffeine, DEET) were detected in the groundwater, while salicylic acid was also detected in adjacent surface water. Caffeine and DEET in surface water were directly attributable to greywater irrigation. Thus the practice of greywater irrigation can act as a source of organic micro-pollutants to shallow groundwater and nearby surface water. The full list of micro-pollutants that could be introduced via greywater and the risk they pose to aquatic ecosystems is not yet known. ; Full Text |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 0048-9697 |
| Relation: | Science of the Total Environment; Turner, RDR; Warne, MSJ; Dawes, LA; Thompson, K; Will, GD, Greywater irrigation as a source of organic micro-pollutants to shallow groundwater and nearby surface water, Science of the Total Environment, 2019, 669, pp. 570-578; http://hdl.handle.net/10072/386743 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.03.073 |
| الاتاحة: | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/386743 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.03.073 |
| Rights: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ; © 2019 Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited. ; open access |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.1F830FA4 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| تدمد: | 00489697 |
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| DOI: | 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.03.073 |