What’s in Our Water: The significance of trace organic compounds (2007)

Roundup 1

Project Title: Adsorption and removal of trace organic compounds by membrane processes used in water treatment and wastewater recycling
Project Leaders: Stuart Khan, Pierre Le-Clech, James McDonald and Long Nghiem

Roundup 2

Project Title: The use of chiral pharmaceutical compounds to characterise sewage treatment processes and sewage contamination of surface waters
Project Leaders: Stuart Khan

Roundup 3

Project Title: Fluorescence as a tool for sensitive detection of failures in recycled water treatment and distribution systems
Project Leaders: Stuart Khan, Richard Stuetz, Andy Baker, Michael Storey

Roundup 4

Project Title: Removal of Potential Impact of Pharmaceutically Active Compounds during Wastewater Treatment
Project Leaders: Richard Stuetz, Nick Ashbolt, Stuart Khan, Nhat Le-Minh, Karen Jury

Roundup 5

Project Title: Degradation of Oestrogenic and Carcinogenic Substances in Water using Alternative Water Treatment Technologies
Project Leaders: Rose Amal, Heather Coleman, Greg Leslie

Roundup 6

Project Title: Analysis of wastewater samples from sewage treatment plants for endocrine disrupting chemicals
Project Leaders: Heather Coleman, Stuart Khan, Graeme Watkins, Richard Stuetz

Roundup 7

Project Title: An assessment of the presence of endocrine disrupting chemicals, in Melbourne’s waterways, by investigating biomarkers of exposure in mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki), carp (Cyprinus carpio), brown trout (Salmo trutta) and eel (Anguilla sp.)
Project Leaders: Dayanthi Nugegoda, Andreas Lopata and Vincent Pettigrove

Roundup 8

Project Title: Laboratory validation and field assessment of vitellogenin induction in two Australian perciform fishes: the tropical barramundi (Lates calcarifer) and the temperate black bream (Acanthopagrus butcheri).
Project Leaders: Sue Codi King

Roundup 9

Project Title: Impact of industrially based endocrine disrupting chemicals on aquatic biota
Project Leaders: Richard Lim

Roundup 10

Project Title: Fate and Effects of sewage-derived pharmaceuticals on soil
Project Leaders: Gerty Gielen

Roundup 11

Project Title: Identification of Pharmaceuticals of Priority Concern in Surface Waters and their Potential Effects as Environmental Pollutants
Project Leaders: Francesco Pomati

Roundup 12

Project Title: The Impact of endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) in sewage contaminated waters on aquatic biota and identification of the causative compounds
Project Leaders: Richard Lim

Roundup 13

Project Title: Use of effects based bioassays to assess the endocrine disruption potential of advanced tertiary treated sewage effluent.
Project Leaders: Richard Lim

Roundup 14

Project Title: Fate and dynamics of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) and Pharmaceutically Active Compounds (PhACs) in the Soil Environment
Project Leaders: Gareth Lewis

Roundup 15

Project Title: Characterising Chemicals of Concern in Recycled Water
Project Leaders: Anna Heitz

Roundup 16

Project Titles:
a) Capacity of New Zealand Dairy soils to retain estrogenic/androgenic steroid hormones
b) Fate and behaviour of steroid conjugates (3-sulphates) in NZ soils?
c) Modelling the simultaneous parent compound degradation and metabolite formation fraction of veterinary antibiotics during degradation in soil microcosms
d) Fate of estrogenic steroid hormones associated with land-application of dairy effluent using large lysimeter
Project Leaders: Ajit K Sarmah

Roundup 17

Project Titles:
a) Biocides in biosolids
b) Wastewater contaminant loading to New Zealand’s aquatic environment
c) Effect of sample matrix on the performance of estrogenic bioassays
d) Quantifying steroid hormones in NZ waste water treatment plant effluents
Project Leaders: Grant Northcott

Roundup 18

Project Title: Actor modeling and actor-based modeling to support risk assessments for pharmaceuticals in drinking water and for mobile organic xenobiotics in surface waters
Project Leaders: Petra Döll