Emerging Freshwater Pollutants

Dr Tatenda Dalu is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Biology and Environmental Sciences and Leader of the Aquatic Systems Research Group at University of Mpumalanga, Honorary Research Associate at the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, and a member of the Alien Species Risk Assessment Review Panel of South Africa and British Ecological Society Grants Committee. He is a United Nations Global Environment Outlook 7 Contributing Author, Associate Editor for Aquatic Invasions, African Journal of Ecology, BioInvasions Records, Ecology and Evolution and Frontiers in Water – Environmental Water Quality, and Editorial Board Member for Science of the Total Environment and Environmental Advances. He has Guest Edited for Frontiers in Water and Frontiers in Environmental Science. He is an expert in freshwater riverine, wetland and reservoir ecosystems mainly using phytoplankton, invertebrates, and fish as study organisms. He has previously co-edited two books for Elsevier on Fundamentals of Tropical Freshwater Wetlands: From Ecology to Conservation Management and Emerging Freshwater Pollutants: Analysis, Fate, and Regulation. Working with fellow research colleagues, Dr Dalu has identified and described two new species in South Africa (Copepod Lovenula raynerae) and Zimbabwe (Fairy shrimp Streptocephalus sangoensis). Dr Nikita Tavengwa is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at University of Venda. His research interests lie in Analytical Environmental Chemistry in pre-concentration of organic analytes/pollutants (including emerging pollutants such as PAHs, NACs and antibiotics) to enhance their detection limits before their instrumental analysis.

• 1. Introduction to emerging freshwater pollutantsPart 1. Monitoring techniques, Current Analytical Approaches and Instrumental Analyses 2. Stream Biomonitoring: the role of Diatoms, Macroinvertebrates and Fish3. Monitoring Techniques - Grab and Passive Sampling4. Miniaturized solid phase extraction 5. Miniaturisation of liquid-phase extraction techniques6. Head-space miniaturization techniquesPart 2. Fate and occurrence of emerging pollutants in aquatic systems7. Fate of emerging pollutants in aquatic systems8. Remediation of emerging pollutants through various wastewater treatment processes9. Microplastics in freshwater ecosystems with special reference to tropical systems; detection, impact, and management10. Pharmaceuticals and personal care products11. Innovative liquid phase extraction based analytical extraction techniques of antibiotics12. Pesticides13. Antiretrovirals in the Environment14. Disinfection byproducts15. Azo dyes: sources, occurrence, toxicity, sampling, analysis and their removal methods16. Flame retardants in tropical regions: Sources, fate and occurrence in the aquatic environment17. Rare earth elements and radionuclides18. Nanoparticles in biosensor development for the detection of pathogenic bacteria in waterPart 3. Management policies and legislations on emerging pollutants19. Policy and Intervention methods to control emerging pollutants20. Future directions of emerging pollutants research