In 2021, Nikola Rakonjac, a Ph.D. candidate from Wageningen University, contacted Paolo Benettin at EPFL to collaborate on a model to simulate the transport of veterinary pharmaceuticals from the soil to surface waters. The collaboration resulted in Nikola visiting EPFL for a few months and Paolo becoming a Ph.D. co-advisor. After a few years, the fruits of that collaboration have been finally published* this month. They offer a simple and clear message: lowland catchments, despite being characterized by mean transit times of months\/years, remain vulnerable to veterinary pharmaceuticals carried by small volumes of young (days) water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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*Rakonjac, N., Miazza, R., Rinaldo, A., Ritsema, C. J., & Benettin, P. (2025). Short water transit times determine the fate of veterinary pharmaceuticals in lowland catchments. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology<\/em>, 276<\/em>, 104704. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jconhyd.2025.104704<\/a> In 2021, Nikola Rakonjac, a Ph.D. candidate from Wageningen University, contacted Paolo Benettin at EPFL to collaborate on a model to simulate the transport of veterinary pharmaceuticals from…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002724,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002724"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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