Emerging Contaminants in River Ecosystems

This volume offers an overview of the occurrence of emerging organiccontaminants in Mediterranean rivers and their relevance to their chemical and ecologicalquality under water scarcity. With chapters covering the effects under multiple stressconditions of pharmaceuticals, polar pesticides, personal care products, and industrialchemicals, the observations presented can be applicable to other parts of theworld where water scarcity is an issue . It is of interest to environmentalchemists, ecologists, environmental engineers, and ecotoxicologists, as well aswater managers and decision-makers.

Introduction
on emerging contaminants in rivers and their environmental risk. - Contaminants
of emerging concern in Mediterranean watersheds. - Emerging organic contaminants
in aquifers: Sources, transport, fate, and attenuation. - Effects of emerging
contaminants on biodiversity, community structure, and adaptation of river
biota. - Bioaccumulation of emerging contaminants in the biota: patterns in
Mediterranean river networks. - Ecosystem responses to emerging contaminants:
fate and effects of pharmaceuticals in a Mediterranean river. - Fate and
degradation of emerging contaminants in rivers: Models review. - The emerging contaminants in the context of the EU
Water Framework Directive.