FOODinteract Research Team (I3A-LAQV)

I3A-LAQV (Food & Water Science – Green Chemistry Laboratory) FOODinteract Research Team (I3A-LAQV)

HIGHLIGHTS (Water Quality)

Water is an invaluable resource for human health, food security, sustainable development and environment, being an economic sector of growing importance worldwide to ensure human right to safe drinking water. However, water safety is constantly under pressure from climate change, urbanization, pollution, overexploitation or increasing competition between various user groups searching for economic benefits.

Emerging Contaminants (ECs) are a broad category of chemicals of environmental occurrence, mostly of anthropogenic origin, previously unknown or unrecognized as being of concern, that are currently under increasing scientific scrutiny. They are widespread in the environment and water is one of their main dissemination vehicles.

The ECs are considered a priority problem by international organizations and are candidates for future legislation. Examples of compounds that have recently emerged as particularly relevant are surfactants, pharmaceuticals, personal care products, gasoline additives, flame retardants, antiseptic, industrial additives, steroids and hormones, pesticides and byproducts of water disinfection. One of the most worrying groups is that of compounds that are capable of interfering with the endocrine regulation mechanisms, called endocrine disruptors.

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Irrigation with Coal Mining Effluents: Sustainability and Water Quality Considerations (Sao Pedro da Cova, North Portugal).

Water, 2021, 13, 2157. http://doi.org/10.3390/w13162157

An Integrated Multi-Approach to Environmental Monitoring of a Self-Burning Coal Waste Pile: The Sao Pedro da Cova Mine (Porto, Portugal) Study Case.

Environments, 2021, 8, 48. http://doi.org/10.3390/environments8060048

Changes Induced by Self-Burning in Technosols from a Coal Mine Waste Pile: A Hydropedological Approach.

Geosciences, 2021, 11, 195. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11050195

Wildfires effects on organic matter of soils from Caramulo Mountain (Portugal): environmental implications. Environmental Science and

Pollution Research, 2021, 28, 819–831. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-10520-w

Geoethical implications of water pollution by road de‐icing: lessons and way forward in a mountain protected area (Serra da Estrela, Central Portugal).

Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews (2021) 3, 349–360. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42990-021-00065-6

Occurrence of Selected Known or Suspected Endocrine-Disrupting Pesticides in Portuguese Surface Waters Using SPME-GC-IT/MS.

Separations (2021) 8, 81. https://doi.org/10.3390/separations8060081