Concern for emerging pollutants can be traced back to Rachel Carson and the publication of Silent Spring, but our understanding about pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) and endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) in the environment has proliferated more recently. In 2007, the Water Environment Federation published their first annual review on Emerging Pollutants in the technical publication Water Environment Research which is dedicated to research on water quality, pollution control, and management. This important resource series continues to be published to date and covers all emerging pollutants, but a majority of the literature is focused on the occurrence, fate, transport, and treatment of PPCPs and EDCs. In 2012, the Emerging Pollutants Series expanded to two separate publications--Part I: Occurrence, Fate, and Transport and Part II: Treatment. Each annual review is a retrospective examination of peer reviewed manuscripts published the preceding year. Based on our experience with this review series, we will present an overview/summary of the state-of-the-art regarding PPCPs and EDCs in our water supply. Particularly, this discussion will focus on the occurrence of PPCPs and EDCs in municipal wastewater effluent and reclaimed water, the impact of wastewater treatment processes on these compounds (metabolic/degradation/transformation products, chemomarkers, and sorption processes), and the fate, transport, and impacts of PPCPs and EDCs in the environment, including antibiotic resistance. Additionally, future challenges will be noted.

Emerging pollutants�an overview of occurrence, fate, transport, and treatment

248th National Meeting (2014)

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