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Assessing the impact of forestry on water quality in Scotland: A review of modelling capabilities

17th April 2025
Winchburgh Waste Water Treatment Works - Photo Credit: Andrew Tyler

Review of psychoactive substances wastewater monitoring approaches and recommendations for the feasibility of applying different approaches in Scotland

1st April 2025
Glass of water with flowing stream in background. Sourced from istock. copyight restrictions apply

PFAS in drinking water supplies: A review of source, pathway, and fate for selected compounds

30th September 2024
A group of rocks in water Photograph courtesy of Karin Helwig

Emerging Contaminants: Informing Scotland’s strategic monitoring and policy approaches on substances of increasing concern

12th June 2024
Glass of water with flowing stream in background

Developing risk assessment approaches for PFAS and watch list parameters under the recast Drinking Water Directive

13th March 2024
Technologies for Monitoring and Treatment of Antimicrobial Resistance in Water; Cover images courtesy of: Dr Lisa Avery (The James Hutton Institute) (bottom two photos); Top right photo from Flickr user Stefan Schlautmann by CC license. Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/schlaus/708447474/sizes/m/in/ photostream/

Antimicrobial Resistance in Scotland’s Waters - Status and Solutions

19th May 2022
Small sewage systems (SSS); Cover photographs courtesy of: clockwise – Septic drain fields Hobrechtsfelde in LSG Buch Leonhard Lenz Lid of a rural septic tank beside an intersection, Slammerhogen, Lysekil Municipality, Sweden A septic tank being installed. Nonztp

International policy review on small sewage systems

15th April 2022
Front cover image showing medicine - Different Medicines, Patient Education, and Green Pharmaceuticals (www.canva.com)

Environmentally informed pharmaceutical prescribing in Scotland

30th March 2022
Pharmaceuticals in the water environment; Cover photos courtesy of: Karin Helwig and Scottish Water

Pharmaceuticals in the water environment: baseline assessment and recommendations

15th March 2022
SOHAR report front cover

Scottish One Health AMR Register (SOHAR)

21st October 2021
Epidemiology PWS (Private water supplies) Cover photographs: Courtesy of Claire Abel, James Hutton Institute

The epidemiology and disease burden potential relating to private water supplies in Scotland

15th September 2021
Image of septic tank modelling report Cover photographs courtesy of: Samia Richards (JHI).

Developing a probabilistic risk model to estimate phosphorus, nitrogen and microbial pollution to water from septic tanks

8th June 2021

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