Publication detail

Pharmaceuticals in the urban water cycle

ŽIŽLAVSKÁ, A. HLAVÍNEK, P.

Original Title

Pharmaceuticals in the urban water cycle

Type

book chapter

Language

English

Original Abstract

Pharmaceuticals are an integral part of modern medicine, and we can hardly imagine the functioning of our modern society without them. Thanks to medicines, we can eradicate of serious pandemic illnesses, helping people overcome serious psychological or psychiatric problems, prolonging the life of lowering high cholesterol, diabetics, or other comforting benefits such as pain relief, hormonal drugs prevent unwanted conception. Such a boom reached pharmacology, especially in the second half of the 19th century, and more drugs developed over the 20th century only in 1965, scientists noticed that these substances are likely to get further into the environment, with the number of studies showing the incidence pharmacist in surface water.

Keywords

pharmaceuticals, water, wastewater treatment, environment

Authors

ŽIŽLAVSKÁ, A.; HLAVÍNEK, P.

Released

1. 8. 2019

Publisher

Springer

Location

Cham, Deutschland

ISBN

978-3-030-18359-2

Book

Management of Water Quality and Quantity

Pages from

133

Pages to

162

Pages count

30

URL

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-18359-2_6

BibTex

@inbook{BUT158134,
  author="Adéla {Žižlavská} and Petr {Hlavínek}",
  title="Pharmaceuticals in the urban water cycle",
  booktitle="Management of Water Quality and Quantity",
  year="2019",
  publisher="Springer",
  address="Cham, Deutschland",
  pages="133--162",
  doi="10.1007/978-3-030-18359-2\{_}6",
  isbn="978-3-030-18359-2",
  url="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-18359-2_6"
}