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PHARMACEUTICALS AND PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS IN WATER: OCCURRENCE, REMOVAL, AND IMPACTS ON MICROBIOMES AND INVERTEBRATES

Dutta, Sayoni
http://orcid.org/0009-0003-0683-1438
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1690990395682772

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2023, PHD, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Biological Sciences.
Over the past few decades, the massive anthropogenic increase in PPCP consumption and their subsequent release, ubiquitous distribution, and pseudo-persistence in the environment have compelled many people to monitor PPCPs in rivers, lakes, drinking water, groundwater, and sediments. PPCPs can also enter drinking water treatment plants via either surface water or sometimes through groundwater. Despite their widespread distribution, PPCP monitoring is not mandatory in DWTPs according to federal or state regulations in the US, thereby limiting our understanding of PPCP occurrence, distribution, and subsequent removal in DWTPs. The removal of PPCPs in DWTPs also depends on the specific treatment processes (conventional or advanced) and the molecular structures of the removed compounds. Despite some studies focusing on PPCP occurrence and removal from DWTPs, there is still a significant knowledge gap regarding compound-specific removal of PPCPs both seasonally and treatment-wise (conventional vs. advanced). There is also insufficient knowledge about the removal of mixed PPCPs in sand-anthracite biofilters, particularly for drinking water. Moreover, their effects (microbial and biochemical) on benthic aquatic invertebrates are not well investigated. The overall goal of this dissertation was to understand the distribution of PPCPs in the surface and drinking water, their chemical and biological removal from water, and their effects on benthic aquatic invertebrates. Specifically, I aimed to understand how PPCPs are distributed in the surface and drinking waters of Northern Ohio, how they are removed from the finished waters in water treatment plants, how microbial community changes with the removal and/or interactions of PPCPs from drinking water in sand-anthracite biofilters and finally how PPCPs induce microbial and biochemical changes in freshwater crayfish.
Xiaozhen Mou, Ph.D (Advisor)
Laura Leff, Ph.D (Advisor)
167 p.
Chemistry; Ecology; Microbiology
PPCPs, pharmaceuticals, microbiome, oxidative stress, biological filters, removal efficiency, bacterial community composition, crayfish

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  • Dutta, S. (2023). PHARMACEUTICALS AND PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS IN WATER: OCCURRENCE, REMOVAL, AND IMPACTS ON MICROBIOMES AND INVERTEBRATES [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1690990395682772

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Dutta, Sayoni. PHARMACEUTICALS AND PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS IN WATER: OCCURRENCE, REMOVAL, AND IMPACTS ON MICROBIOMES AND INVERTEBRATES. 2023. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1690990395682772.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Dutta, Sayoni. "PHARMACEUTICALS AND PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS IN WATER: OCCURRENCE, REMOVAL, AND IMPACTS ON MICROBIOMES AND INVERTEBRATES." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1690990395682772

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