Phase partitioning and limited attenuation of neurotoxicants and estrogens sustain ecological risks in WWTP effluent-dominated rivers.
Wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluents release complex chemical mixtures into receiving rivers, but how contaminant partitioning, transport, and transformation shape spatially variable ecological risks remain poorly understood. Here, in a multi-site study of an effluent-dominated river concerning 135 emerging cont...