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Posts classified under: toxicity

Water Research Australia   →  Projects   →  toxicity
Networks & Treatment

Measuring the growth rates of microorganism in Victoria’s water and wastewater

Ensuring water quality is essential for public health and environmental sustainability…

Circular Economy

Remediation techniques utilising biosolids and biochar amendments for arsenic contaminated mine waste to reduce ecotoxicity

Historic gold mining has left a legacy of toxic waste which has contaminated soils and water globally…

Human & Environmental Health Impacts

Health risks from irrigating crops and watering livestock when toxic cyanobacteria blooms are present

Cyanobacteria blooms can occur in water sources used for irrigation and watering stock and toxins may present a risk to food crops and livestock…

Human & Environmental Health Impacts

Microcystis blooms – insights from genomics and metagenomics

The genus Microcystis is responsible for many ‘nuisance’ and toxic algal blooms that threaten various fresh water bodies in Australia…

Source & Catchments

Application of in situ fluorometers for monitoring algal blooms in water supply systems: potential for real time treatment validation and reactive chemical adjustment

Cyanobacterial blooms are a concern for water utilities due to the potential production of cyanotoxins and taste and odours…

Human & Environmental Health Impacts

The influence of organic matter molecular weight on DBP formation

This project investigated the relationship between disinfection by-product (DBP) formation in drinking water and the molecular weight distribution of its natural organic matter precursors (NOM) to help increase our understanding of how NOM properties such as size, aromaticity and structure affect DBP formation and toxicity of the formed DBPs…

Human & Environmental Health Impacts

Characterisation of a novel toxin from Anabaena circinalis

Anabaena circinalis, is a commonly occurring cyanobacterial species in Australian source waters…

Human & Environmental Health Impacts

Limnothrixin: Chemical characterisation of a novel cyanobacterial toxin

Following the discovery of a species of cyanobacteria displaying novel toxicity, Limnothrix as a cause for concern, this project identified the toxin and developed techniques to detect and isolate it…

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)…

Source & Catchments

Developing guidance for assessment and evaluation of harmful algal blooms, and implementation of control strategies in source water

The environmental conditions which cause blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) blooms vary according to location, the climate, and other attributes of aquatic ecosystems…

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