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Assessment and Management of Pharmaceutical Substances in the Environment

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The occurrence of pharmaceutical substances and its migration in aquatic ecosystems has recently raised a serious public concern as well as relevant environmental issues all over the world. The main objective of the research was to perform the flow analysis of the investigated substances and to provide recommendations on how to reduce pollution of the selected pharmaceuticals in Lithuania.

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Acknowledgement

This research was developed in the framework of the INTERREG EUROPE programme project “Improving the European Rivers Water Quality through Smart Water Management Policies - BIGDATA4RIVERS” funded by the EU’s European Regional Development fund through the INTERREG EUROPE, 2014–2020.

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  1. Institute of Environmental Engineering, Kaunas University of Technology, Gedimino Street 50, 44239, Kaunas, Lithuania

    Reda Beigaite, Inga Baranauskaite-Fedorova & Jolanta Dvarioniene

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Beigaite, R., Baranauskaite-Fedorova, I., Dvarioniene, J. (2021). Assessment and Management of Pharmaceutical Substances in the Environment. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2021. ICCSA 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12950. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86960-1_55

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