PMID- 35917068 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230106 LR - 20230111 IS - 1614-7499 (Electronic) IS - 0944-1344 (Linking) VI - 30 IP - 1 DP - 2023 Jan TI - Evaluating chemicals of emerging concern in the Ganga River at the two major cities Prayagraj and Varanasi through validated analytical approaches. PG - 1520-1539 LID - 10.1007/s11356-022-22226-2 [doi] AB - Evaluating environmental water quality means to assess and protect the environment against unfriendly impacts from various organic impurities emerging from industrial emissions and those released during harvesting. Potential risks related with release of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), pesticides and pharmaceuticals (PhAcs), and personal care products (PCPs) into the environment have turned into an increasingly serious issue in ecological safety. Monitoring helps in control of chemicals and ecological status compliance to safeguard specific water uses, for example, drinking water abstraction. A longitudinal review was carried out for 55 different persistent organic pollutants (POPs) for the Ganga River which passes through the urban areas of Prayagraj and Varanasi, India, through validated analytical approaches and measurement uncertainty (MU) estimation to assess their potential use for routine analysis. Furthermore, environmental risk assessment (ERA) carried out in the present study has revealed risk quotient (RQ) higher than 1 in a portion of the aquatic bodies. Using a conservative RQ strategy, POPs were assessed for having extensive risks under acute and chronic exposure, proposing that there is currently critical ecological risk identified with these compounds present in the Ganga River. In general, these outcomes demonstrate a significant contribution for focusing on measures and feasible techniques to minimize the unfavorable effects of contaminants on the aquatic environment. CI - (c) 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. FAU - Satyanarayana, G N V AU - Satyanarayana GNV AD - Analytical Chemistry Laboratory, Regulatory Toxicology Group, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Vishvigyan Bhawan, M.G. Marg, Uttar Pradesh, P.O. Box-80, Lucknow, 226001, India. AD - Department of Chemistry, School of Basic Sciences, Babu Banarasi Das University, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, 226028, India. FAU - Kumar, Anu AU - Kumar A AD - CSIRO Land and Water, Urrbrae, SA, 5064, Australia. FAU - Pandey, Alok K AU - Pandey AK AD - Nanomaterial Toxicology Laboratory, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Vishvigyan Bhawan, M. G. Marg, Uttar Pradesh, P. O. Box-80, Lucknow, 226001, India. FAU - Sharma, Manisha T AU - Sharma MT AD - Department of Chemistry, School of Basic Sciences, Babu Banarasi Das University, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, 226028, India. FAU - Natesan, Manickam AU - Natesan M AD - Department of Environmental Biotechnology, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Vishvigyan Bhawan, M. G. Marg, Uttar Pradesh, P. O. Box-80, Lucknow, 226001, India. FAU - Mudiam, Mohana Krishna Reddy AU - Mudiam MKR AD - Analytical and Structural Chemistry Department, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Tarnaka, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, 500 007, Telangana, India. mmudiam@iict.res.in. LA - eng GR - CLP-27/Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology/ GR - GAP-0562/Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology/ PT - Journal Article DEP - 20220802 PL - Germany TA - Environ Sci Pollut Res Int JT - Environmental science and pollution research international JID - 9441769 RN - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical) RN - 0 (Environmental Pollutants) RN - 0 (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons) SB - IM MH - Rivers/chemistry MH - *Water Pollutants, Chemical/analysis MH - Cities MH - Water Quality MH - *Environmental Pollutants MH - Environmental Monitoring/methods MH - *Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons/analysis OTO - NOTNLM OT - Contaminants of emerging concern OT - Measurement uncertainty OT - Persistent organic pollutants OT - Pesticides OT - Pharmaceuticals OT - Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons OT - Risk assessment EDAT- 2022/08/03 06:00 MHDA- 2023/01/07 06:00 CRDT- 2022/08/02 11:21 PHST- 2022/02/17 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/07/21 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/08/03 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/01/07 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/08/02 11:21 [entrez] AID - 10.1007/s11356-022-22226-2 [pii] AID - 10.1007/s11356-022-22226-2 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2023 Jan;30(1):1520-1539. doi: 10.1007/s11356-022-22226-2. Epub 2022 Aug 2.