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Source separation and nutrient utilization for elimination of eutrophication of water reservoirs
Holba, Marek ; Černý, M. ; Došek, M.
Sustainable society development and the improvement of water environment quality together with soli quality is tightly connected with separation at source, biodegradable waste and nutrient recycling from wastewater to agriculture. Once we recycle nutrients from wastewater then we can reduce fossil fuel consumption and decrease nutrient input into water bodies. This attitude can be expressed by acronyme NEW (N - nutrient, E - energy, W - water) that lead to the nutrient recycling, energy consumption decrease and enhancement of water quality.
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Possibilities of removal of selected estrogens from water using
Maršálková, Eliška ; Maršálek, Blahoslav ; Endo, Valentina ; Godoy Alonso, Paula ; Jančula, Daniel
Advanced wastewater treatment technologies are focused on removal of micropolutants such as pharmaceuticals, estrogen disrupting compounds etc. To protect public health it is not possible to stop using pharmaceuticals, but it is necessary to find environmental friendly technologies which can remove or reducce these compounds. So called green technology and ferrates belongs to this treatment. It was found that estrogenes are reduced/removed from wastewater with different efficiency by common processes as it is shown in this paper. Processes using vegetative treatment and activated sludge treatment are compared. Results of estrogen removal by zerovalent iron and hexavalent iron are introduced.
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Estrogens in surface waters - sources, concentration, detection
Maršálek, Blahoslav ; Sadílek, Jan ; Maršálková, Eliška ; Endo, Valentina ; Godoy Alonso, Paula
Estrogenity in the surface water become to be a topic, where the orientation for not educated people should be difficult. At first, estrogens in the surface water cannot be substituted by the expressionenndocrine disrupting compounds (ED) what is more wide term (including estrogenity and e.g. androgenity). Compounds with estrogenic activity detected in surface waters are not only the contraceptive pills as is somewhere simplified, but it is a wide spectrum of compounds like PCB, heavy metals, pharmacs, pesticides etc. Moreover – estrogenic activity display also naturally synthetized compounds by plants (phytoestrogens), fungi (mycoestrogens), or by algae and cyanobacteria (phycoestrogens). These compounds are not analysed in the surface water yet. Exception is some rare analyses of phytoestrogens, we presume, that phycoestrogens can be produced in aquatic ecosystem in ecotoxicologically relevant concentrations. Estrogens can be detected in the water, sediments or in the aquatic biota by instrumental analyses (LC-MS/MS), or by ELISA, or e.g. by bioassays, which can detect also so called potential estrogens ( are able to bind to some of estrogen receptors, but effects in vivo were not proved yet). In the case of the comparison, or the interpretation of results from different sources we must consider the used detection method. Instrumental analyses are dedicated to selected compounds.. Bioassays represent the sum of compounds with (with proved, or potential) estrogenic activity. That is why we strongly recommend to pay an attention on the methods of sampling and analyse in the case of interpretation and comparison of estrogenity results from different resources. In the case of literature data usingincomparable methods or high detection limit we recommend the high carefulness. Where it is possible we recommend the combination of instrumental analyse with in vitro bioassays for detection of estrogenity in surface waters.
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Methodology for assessing ecological potential of heavily modified and artificial water bodies – a proposal
Borovec, Jakub ; Hejzlar, Josef ; Znachor, Petr ; Čtvrtlíková, Martina ; Blabolil, Petr ; Říha, Milan ; Matěna, Josef ; Kubečka, Jan
Methodology for the assessment of the ecological potential of heavily modified and artificial water bodies of the lacustrine type was developer, including also typology of water bodies. The selection of indicator metrics was based on statistical analyses of the sensitivity of each of the indicators towards the most significant stressor – eutrophication. According to these results, biological communities and their indicators were selected to comply with the requirements of the Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC).
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