Selected organic micropollutants in the aquatic environment

Abstract

Recently, an increasing number of research in the field of water and sewage management concerns issues related to the increasing pollution of the aquatic environment with micropollutants from the groups of endocrine-active EDA/EDC compounds and those referred to as "emerging contaminants ECs or CECs (contaminants of emerging concern) - as pollutants" newly appearing in the environment or causing concern". These groups are not mutually exclusive and it is possible to distinguish among them such chemical compounds, which due to their properties are classified into the three mentioned groups. This paper presents an overview of literature data concerning newly identified organic micropollutants in the aquatic environment. The problem of the occurrence of pollutants of anthropogenic origin in waters is valid due to an increase in the number of identified compounds, which so far did not identified or there were no analytical possibilities to detect them. This is important from the point of view of the impact on the biocenosis of the aquatic environment as well as due to the potential contamination of the population's drinking water supply.