The SOLUTIONS project: challenges and responses for present and future emerging pollutants in land and water resources management
Language English Country Netherlands Media print-electronic
Document type Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PubMed
24951181
DOI
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.05.143
PII: S0048-9697(14)00835-3
Knihovny.cz E-resources
- Keywords
- Effect-based tools, Environmental risk assessment, Exposure and risk modelling, Mixture toxicology, Water Framework Directive, Water policy,
- MeSH
- Water Pollutants, Chemical analysis MeSH
- Water Pollution, Chemical prevention & control statistics & numerical data MeSH
- Ecosystem MeSH
- Environmental Policy MeSH
- European Union MeSH
- Risk Assessment MeSH
- Environmental Monitoring MeSH
- Hazardous Substances analysis MeSH
- Water Resources statistics & numerical data MeSH
- Conservation of Natural Resources methods MeSH
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't MeSH
- Names of Substances
- Water Pollutants, Chemical MeSH
- Hazardous Substances MeSH
SOLUTIONS (2013 to 2018) is a European Union Seventh Framework Programme Project (EU-FP7). The project aims to deliver a conceptual framework to support the evidence-based development of environmental policies with regard to water quality. SOLUTIONS will develop the tools for the identification, prioritisation and assessment of those water contaminants that may pose a risk to ecosystems and human health. To this end, a new generation of chemical and effect-based monitoring tools is developed and integrated with a full set of exposure, effect and risk assessment models. SOLUTIONS attempts to address legacy, present and future contamination by integrating monitoring and modelling based approaches with scenarios on future developments in society, economy and technology and thus in contamination. The project follows a solutions-oriented approach by addressing major problems of water and chemicals management and by assessing abatement options. SOLUTIONS takes advantage of the access to the infrastructure necessary to investigate the large basins of the Danube and Rhine as well as relevant Mediterranean basins as case studies, and puts major efforts on stakeholder dialogue and support. Particularly, the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) Common Implementation Strategy (CIS) working groups, International River Commissions, and water works associations are directly supported with consistent guidance for the early detection, identification, prioritisation, and abatement of chemicals in the water cycle. SOLUTIONS will give a specific emphasis on concepts and tools for the impact and risk assessment of complex mixtures of emerging pollutants, their metabolites and transformation products. Analytical and effect-based screening tools will be applied together with ecological assessment tools for the identification of toxicants and their impacts. The SOLUTIONS approach is expected to provide transparent and evidence-based candidates or River Basin Specific Pollutants in the case study basins and to assist future review of priority pollutants under the WFD as well as potential abatement options.
Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas CSIC Barcelona Spain
ALTERRA Wageningen The Netherlands
Brunel University Institute for Bioengineering London United Kingdom
Brunel University Institute for the Environment London United Kingdom
Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg Germany
Dynamic Extractions Slough United Kingdom
Environmental Institute Koš Slovak Republic
Faust and Backhaus Environmental Consulting Bremen Germany
Flemish Institute for Technological Research VITO Mol Belgium
Foundation Deltares Delft The Netherlands
Hammerbacher GmbH Consulting and Facilitation Osnabrück Germany
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig Germany
Institut National de l'Environnement Industriel et des Risques INERIS Verneuil en Halatte France
International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River ICPDR Vienna Austria
IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute Gothenburg Sweden
KOCMOC NET Design Agency Leipzig Germany
KWR Watercycle Research Institute Nieuwegein The Netherlands
Laboratory of Mathematical Chemistry Asen Zlatarov University Bourgas Bulgaria
Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry Halle Germany
Masaryk University Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment Brno Czech Republic
MAXX Mess und Probenahmetechnik GmbH Rangendingen Germany
Mermayde Bergen The Netherlands
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM Bilthoven The Netherlands
Norwegian Institute for Water Research NIVA Oslo Norway
Oeko Institut e 5 Institute for Applied Ecology Freiburg Germany
RWTH Aachen University Aachen Germany
Stockholm University Stockholm Sweden
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology Eawag Dübendorf Switzerland
Synchem UG and Co KG Felsberg Altenburg Germany
University of Bern Bern Switzerland
University of Birmingham Birmingham United Kingdom
University of Campinas Limeira Brazil
University of Gothenburg Gothenburg Sweden
University of Liverpool Liverpool United Kingdom
University of Novi Sad Novi Sad Serbia
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