2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Concentrations of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in Rural River and the Depression Effect on the Concentrations by Rural Sewerage
| Project/Area Number |
23658193
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Irrigation, drainage and rural engineering/Rural planning
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| Research Institution | Ehime University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
NAKAYA Yuji 愛媛大学, 農学部, 客員教授 (00036427)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 農村河川 / 医薬品汚染 / 生活雑排水 / 農業集落排水 / PPCP |
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| Research Abstract |
In this research, the actual condition of the contaminations of 15 kinds of the pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCP) were determined in rural river in Japan. PPCP is the emerging contaminants for the aquatic ecosystem and human health. The research results show that the PPCP concentrations were similar or higher than in urban rivers in Japan, where the coverage of the domestic wastewater treatment plant (rural sewerage) was low. The results also indicates that the rural sewerage is a quite effective infrastructure to the depression of the PPCP concentrations in rural rivers in Japan.
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