INAM-USTA Group, Program of Environmental Engineering, St. Thomas University, Bogotá, Colombia.
INAM-USTA Group, Program of Environmental Engineering, St. Thomas University, Bogotá, Colombia.
J Environ Manage. 2019 May 1;237:408-423. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.02.100. Epub 2019 Feb 26.
Emerging pollutants (EP) are increasingly studied and characterized worldwide to improve the understanding of their environmental and toxicological impacts and their occurrence and behaviors in different environmental systems. Latin America has been subject to both environmental and toxicological impacts due to EP. To better understand these impacts, studies concerning pollutants have increased for the last ten years. The current study presents a critical review on the occurrence of different emerging pollutants in various components of the urban water cycle (UWC) in Latin America. The review is based on studies performed in 11 different countries between 1999 and 2018. The countries where the higher number of investigations were conducted are Brazil (53%) and Mexico (15%). The EP most often studied within the literature are pharmaceuticals, followed by personal care products. The most common EP reported were 17β-estradiol, bisphenol A and estrone; The UWC component with the greatest number of measurements in the reported studies were effluents from wastewater treatment plants.
新兴污染物（EP）在全球范围内的研究和特征越来越受到关注，以提高对其环境和毒理学影响以及在不同环境系统中的发生和行为的理解。拉丁美洲受到 EP 的环境和毒理学影响。为了更好地了解这些影响，过去十年中有关污染物的研究有所增加。目前的研究对拉丁美洲城市水循环（UWC）不同组成部分中不同新兴污染物的发生情况进行了批判性回顾。该综述基于 1999 年至 2018 年间在 11 个不同国家进行的研究。进行调查较多的国家是巴西（53%）和墨西哥（15%）。文献中研究最多的 EP 是药品，其次是个人护理产品。报告中最常见的 EP 是 17β-雌二醇、双酚 A 和雌酮；报告研究中测量次数最多的 UWC 组件是污水处理厂的废水。
