title: The SOLUTIONS project: challenges and responses for present and future emerging pollutants in land and water resources management.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig, Germany. Electronic address: werner.brack@ufz.de.
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authors.affiliation: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.
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authors.affiliation: The University of Queensland, National Research Centre for Environmental Toxicology (Entox), Brisbane, Australia; Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.
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mesh_terms: D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods*; D017753:Ecosystem; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D058735:Environmental Policy; D005062:European Union; D015386:Hazardous Substances / Q000032:analysis; D018570:Risk Assessment; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000032:analysis*; D014877:Water Pollution, Chemical / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D062066:Water Resources / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
chemical_list: D015386:Hazardous Substances; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical
keywords: Effect-based tools; Environmental risk assessment; Exposure and risk modelling; Mixture toxicology; Water Framework Directive; Water policy