Print Email Facebook Twitter Medicinal footprint of the population of the Rhine basin Title Medicinal footprint of the population of the Rhine basin Author Hut, R. Van de Giesen, N. Houtman, C.J. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Water Management Date 2013-12-27 Abstract The relation between pharmaceutical residues along the river Rhine and the demographic characteristics of the upstream population was studied. A sampling campaign was performed in which water samples from the Rhine were taken at 42 locations. Measurements were compared to a two parameter model with regional demographic data as main input. For 12 out of the 21 studied pharmaceuticals, a significant dominant demographic group could be identified. For 3 out of these 12 pharmaceuticals the male elderly were the most contributing demographic group. A Monte Carlo analysis showed a high level of significance for the results of this study (p < 0:01). By combining environmental water quality data and demographic data, better insight was gained in the interplay between humans and their environment, showing the medicinal footprint of the population of the Rhine basin. Subject water qualityhuman impactpharmaceuticalspollution To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9db54140-9be3-45b4-94ed-91bb4acd130a DOI https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/044057 Publisher Institute of Physics IOP ISSN 1748-9326 Source Environmental Research Letters, 8, 2013 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2013 The Authors. CC BY. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License Files PDF 1748-9326_8_4_044057.pdf 539.81 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:9db54140-9be3-45b4-94ed-91bb4acd130a/datastream/OBJ/view