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What’s the next issue of concern? Many of us ask that question when it comes to environmental work and stewardship. We already monitor for so many routine parameters. Should we, and how can we, be casting a broad net to find anything and everything that is a potential concern to our water bodies, public health, aquatic life, and more?
Contaminants of emerging concern, or emerging contaminants, are often detected after a fair amount of them have made their way into the environment and have had a noticeable effect on the environment, like illnesses, malformations, or deaths. Also, with increased precision and accuracy with instrumentation and laboratory technologies, detection limits are getting better and better, and allowable thresholds for pollutants are continuously being reduced as technologies advance and our understanding of single and/or synergistic effects of pollutants evolves.
In this issue of LakeLine we explore a variety of pollutants that have emerged as problems in the environment, and ask the questions of what is next, and what do we do about these?
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