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Posts classified under: CECs

Water Research Australia   →  Projects   →  CECs
Human & Environmental Health Impacts

Fate of PAPs and short-chain PFAS in biosolids amended soils

Biosolids are an important source of nutrients supporting the agricultural industry…

Networks & Treatment

Antimicrobial resistance in advanced water treatment systems and supply networks

Antimicrobial resistance has been identified by the water industry as a growing concern in the delivery of wastewater treatment and water recycling schemes…

Human & Environmental Health Impacts

Bioremediation of pharmaceuticals from wastewater streams

Contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) pose a potential risk to human health and the environment…

Source & Catchments

Improving water quality analysis in response to extreme events

Extreme events can be unpredictable in terms of their impact on raw water quality which is further complicated by the possible introduction of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) into catchment runoff…

Networks & Treatment

Researching Emerging Contaminants (RECON) monitoring program for the Eastern and Western Treatment Plants

Melbourne Water’s Eastern and Western Treatment Plants (ETP and WTP) treat over 90% of Melbourne’s sewage…

Circular Economy

Assessing the impact of immobilisation treatment of PFAS in compost material

Composting is an aerobic microbiological process, during which organic waste is biologically degraded by microorganisms (bacteria and fungi) in a series of processes…

Human & Environmental Health Impacts

The fungi kingdom, discovering their abilities to break down xenobiotics

Xenobiotic compounds such as perfluoroalky substances have been plaguing our ecosystem by entering our food and water supplies…

Human & Environmental Health Impacts

Fate and risk of pharmaceuticals in biosolids-applied agricultural land

Wastewater treatment is a procedure used to remove contaminants from wastewater and reduce the levels of pathogenic microorganisms present in human waste…

Human & Environmental Health Impacts

crcCARE: Water Industry Consortium research program

WaterRA is leading a Water Industry Consortium (WIC) to deliver a research program through the Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment (crcCARE)…

Networks & Treatment

Development of management system for emerging contaminants within the water industry

The aim of Project 1127 was to help the water industry better manage and understand contaminants of emerging concern (CEC), through…

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