Contaminantes prioritários e emergentes e o saneamento ambiental

Abstract

This work approaches many environmental contaminants, be priority, be emerging. Priority contaminants have been known for years, their effects on the aquatic environment and on the human health are well known and their maximum limits of concentration in the water are established by national and/or international regulations. In contrast, emerging contaminants are their adverse health effects recently discovered, but have been released for years in the aquatic environment. In addition, its effects on human health were the object of researches, having as main consequence, effects on the endocrine system of the humans and not humans. In this context, basic sanitation measures should be provided to prevent the consequences of both priority and emerging contaminants. Therefore, a study is needed to prove the effects of emerging on human health so that they are included in the potable water regulations and/or effluent characteristics before they are released into the water as a preventive measure to ensure quality of life for current and future generations.