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Literature investigating the removal of pharmaceuticals in aquatic systems is dominated by water treatment processes used in large-scale centralized systems common in developed countries. The capacity of several low-cost methods (e.g., biosand filtration, solar disinfection, and boiling) commonly used in developing countries to remove pharmaceuticals and their metabolites remains unknown. This calls for further research using field samples such as surface and groundwater contaminated with pharmaceuticals and their metabolites as reported in literature (e.g., Sorensen et al., 2015).