Endocrine Disrupting Compounds: Novel tests for Analysis and Field Validation. This project will give community benefits from new analytical technology and research data to help minimise the threat of environmental contamination with endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs). Both urban and rural communities may feel the impacts of EDCs, with potential contamination occurring globally, affecting both wildlife and humans. The main means of transport of EDCs is as contaminants in water and it is ess ....Endocrine Disrupting Compounds: Novel tests for Analysis and Field Validation. This project will give community benefits from new analytical technology and research data to help minimise the threat of environmental contamination with endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs). Both urban and rural communities may feel the impacts of EDCs, with potential contamination occurring globally, affecting both wildlife and humans. The main means of transport of EDCs is as contaminants in water and it is essential to learn the extent of contamination occurring in urban and rural water supplies to decide its significance. The research will involve a multi-disciplinary approach, with benefits falling into all four National Research Priorities of sustainability, good health, frontier analytical technology and national safety.Read moreRead less
The effect of chlorine disinfection byproducts in wastewater effluent on the aquatic environment. Chlorination of treated wastewater leads to the formation of harmful disinfection byproducts (DBPs). A key issue for the water industry and government environmental agencies is whether the DBPs have a deleterious effect on organisms in the receiving aquatic environment. The effect of fractions of chlorinated and chlorinated/dechlorinated wastewaters on organisms will be assessed using biological as ....The effect of chlorine disinfection byproducts in wastewater effluent on the aquatic environment. Chlorination of treated wastewater leads to the formation of harmful disinfection byproducts (DBPs). A key issue for the water industry and government environmental agencies is whether the DBPs have a deleterious effect on organisms in the receiving aquatic environment. The effect of fractions of chlorinated and chlorinated/dechlorinated wastewaters on organisms will be assessed using biological assays. Chemical analysis will be used to identify the compounds in fractions having negative biological effects. Laboratory data will be validated by measuring environmental DBP concentrations and assessing the biota. This project will identify the risk to biota in aquatic environments from chlorinated and chlorinated/dechlorinated wastewater.Read moreRead less