TY - JOUR
T1 - The SOLUTIONS project
T2 - Challenges and responses for present and future emerging pollutants in land and water resources management
AU - Brack, Werner
AU - Altenburger, Rolf
AU - Schüürmann, Gerrit
AU - Krauss, Martin
AU - López Herráez, David
AU - van Gils, Jos
AU - Slobodnik, Jaroslav
AU - Munthe, John
AU - Gawlik, Bernd Manfred
AU - van Wezel, Annemarie
AU - Schriks, Merijn
AU - Hollender, Juliane
AU - Tollefsen, Knut Erik
AU - Mekenyan, Ovanes
AU - Dimitrov, Saby
AU - Bunke, Dirk
AU - Cousins, Ian
AU - Posthuma, Leo
AU - van den Brink, Paul J.
AU - López de Alda, Miren
AU - Barceló, Damià
AU - Faust, Michael
AU - Kortenkamp, Andreas
AU - Scrimshaw, Mark
AU - Ignatova, Svetlana
AU - Engelen, Guy
AU - Massmann, Gudrun
AU - Lemkine, Gregory
AU - Teodorovic, Ivana
AU - Walz, Karl Heinz
AU - Dulio, Valeria
AU - Jonker, Michiel T O
AU - Jäger, Felix
AU - Chipman, Kevin
AU - Falciani, Francesco
AU - Liska, Igor
AU - Rooke, David
AU - Zhang, Xiaowei
AU - Hollert, Henner
AU - Vrana, Branislav
AU - Hilscherova, Klara
AU - Kramer, Kees
AU - Neumann, Steffen
AU - Hammerbacher, Ruth
AU - Backhaus, Thomas
AU - Mack, Juliane
AU - Segner, Helmut
AU - Escher, Beate
AU - de Aragão Umbuzeiro, Gisela
PY - 2015/1/5
Y1 - 2015/1/5
N2 - SOLUTIONS (2013 to 2018) is a European Union Seventh Framework Programme Project (EU-FP7). The project aims to deliver a conceptual framework to support the evidence-based development of environmental policies with regard to water quality. SOLUTIONS will develop the tools for the identification, prioritisation and assessment of those water contaminants that may pose a risk to ecosystems and human health. To this end, a new generation of chemical and effect-based monitoring tools is developed and integrated with a full set of exposure, effect and risk assessment models. SOLUTIONS attempts to address legacy, present and future contamination by integrating monitoring and modelling based approaches with scenarios on future developments in society, economy and technology and thus in contamination. The project follows a solutions-oriented approach by addressing major problems of water and chemicals management and by assessing abatement options. SOLUTIONS takes advantage of the access to the infrastructure necessary to investigate the large basins of the Danube and Rhine as well as relevant Mediterranean basins as case studies, and puts major efforts on stakeholder dialogue and support. Particularly, the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) Common Implementation Strategy (CIS) working groups, International River Commissions, and water works associations are directly supported with consistent guidance for the early detection, identification, prioritisation, and abatement of chemicals in the water cycle. SOLUTIONS will give a specific emphasis on concepts and tools for the impact and risk assessment of complex mixtures of emerging pollutants, their metabolites and transformation products. Analytical and effect-based screening tools will be applied together with ecological assessment tools for the identification of toxicants and their impacts. The SOLUTIONS approach is expected to provide transparent and evidence-based candidates or River Basin Specific Pollutants in the case study basins and to assist future review of priority pollutants under the WFD as well as potential abatement options.
AB - SOLUTIONS (2013 to 2018) is a European Union Seventh Framework Programme Project (EU-FP7). The project aims to deliver a conceptual framework to support the evidence-based development of environmental policies with regard to water quality. SOLUTIONS will develop the tools for the identification, prioritisation and assessment of those water contaminants that may pose a risk to ecosystems and human health. To this end, a new generation of chemical and effect-based monitoring tools is developed and integrated with a full set of exposure, effect and risk assessment models. SOLUTIONS attempts to address legacy, present and future contamination by integrating monitoring and modelling based approaches with scenarios on future developments in society, economy and technology and thus in contamination. The project follows a solutions-oriented approach by addressing major problems of water and chemicals management and by assessing abatement options. SOLUTIONS takes advantage of the access to the infrastructure necessary to investigate the large basins of the Danube and Rhine as well as relevant Mediterranean basins as case studies, and puts major efforts on stakeholder dialogue and support. Particularly, the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) Common Implementation Strategy (CIS) working groups, International River Commissions, and water works associations are directly supported with consistent guidance for the early detection, identification, prioritisation, and abatement of chemicals in the water cycle. SOLUTIONS will give a specific emphasis on concepts and tools for the impact and risk assessment of complex mixtures of emerging pollutants, their metabolites and transformation products. Analytical and effect-based screening tools will be applied together with ecological assessment tools for the identification of toxicants and their impacts. The SOLUTIONS approach is expected to provide transparent and evidence-based candidates or River Basin Specific Pollutants in the case study basins and to assist future review of priority pollutants under the WFD as well as potential abatement options.
KW - Effect-based tools
KW - Environmental risk assessment
KW - Exposure and risk modelling
KW - Mixture toxicology
KW - Water Framework Directive
KW - Water policy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84909584439&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.05.143
DO - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.05.143
M3 - Article
C2 - 24951181
AN - SCOPUS:84909584439
SN - 0048-9697
VL - 503-504
SP - 22
EP - 31
JO - Science of the Total Environment
JF - Science of the Total Environment
ER -