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The term “new” environmental pollutant covers all anthropogenic contaminants that have been released in the environment over the last few decades. Research into their fate and impact on the environment has started relatively recently. The group of new environmental pollutants consists of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) including DDT, polychlorinated biphenyls, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and a wide range of organic pesticides. This group has recently been expanded with polybrominated flame retardants, drugs, detergents, and personal hygiene products. Chemicals, used everyday in homes, industry and agriculture, can enter the environment in wastewater. According to the United Nations Organization 884 million people do not have access to safe drinking water, and over 2.6 billion people do not have access to proper sanitation systems. On July 28, 2010, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution supporting water as a human right and urging governments and international organizations to address this important human right. Interest in the presence of pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and endocrine disruptors in the environment has increased significantly over the last decade. Pharmaceuticals and synthetic musk compounds in personal care products (PPCPs), are groups of organic micropollutants which are routinely detected in surface water, ground water and even in drinking water (McClellan and Halde, 2010). Hundreds of tons of these compounds are dispensed in communities every year. PPCPs are regarded as being potentially hazardous compounds as some are ubiquitous, persistent and biologically active compounds with recognised endocrine disruption functions (Kasprzyk-Hordern et. al., 2002). Many pharmaceuticals, upon administration, are degraded in the body and may even become inactive, but others, often those applied externally, excreted or not absorbed fully, can leave the body in their active forms. (Roberts &Thomas, 2006). The others only slightly transformed or even unchanged often conjugated to endogenous substrate (e.g. glucuronic acid, sulfuric acid, acetic acid to polar molecules. (Roberts and Thomas, 2006). These conjugates are easily cleaved during sewage treatment and, thus, several pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) are discharged almost unchanged from municipal sewage treatment plants (STPs) into the receiving waters (Heberer, 2002). The wide range of trace chemical contaminants persisting in municipal wastewater after conventional treatment

The Use of Methods of Environmental Analysis and Ecotoxicological Tests in the Evaluation of Wastewater