RIASSUNTO
Water contaminants are among the critical sources of emerging pollutants, such as environmental endocrine concentrated in fishes and shrimps. Provenance information, describing the source and the route of transmission of pollutants, is important for environmental government to mitigate the threat of water contaminants in our urbanized society. However, existing provenance methods are not able to detect the source of these emerging pollutants due to movement of creatures who bio-magnifies concentrated environmental endocrine over a detectable level while the emerging pollutants in moving water are usually lower than a detectable level. To tackle the critical provenance issue, we propose an intelligent scheme by mining fish examination results or reservoir sensor readings along food chains to detect contaminants and provenance sources. Our scheme is capable of identifying the existence of contaminants, the possible sources as well as the provenance process.