Environmental policymaking typically takes place in the context of a system with several levelsof government. And this raises the important issue of the appropriate role of the various governments in the setting of environmental standards, the design of regulatory measures to attain the standards, and the monitoring and enforcement of these measures. Actualpractice reveals a rather strange and ...

Background: This study aimed to evaluated trends for iron and manganese concentrations in wells, reservoirs, and water distribution networks in Qom city during the summer of 2012. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. The studied scopes consisted of groundwater (60 wells), reservoirs (10 tanks), and water distribution network (33 points). One sample was taken from each source monthly. Stat...

today, many of the subterranean and the threat of environmental pollution have been exposed tehran's why environmental studies and water quality monitoring subterranean as urban planning and management is an important issue. the purpose is of this research, monitoring water quality across the east tehran subterranean of environmental indicators. the research method to collect data primaril...

In a watershed, sediment arises due to the erosion and some factors such as pastures destruction,change users, no reasonable cultivation. That causes problems such as sedimentation in reservoirs andreduces their useful volume, reducing water quality in agricultural consumption; reduce the efficiencyof hydraulic structures and some other environmental problems. Changes in sediment load in a rive...

background & aims of the study: leachate production is a major problem for solid waste landfills and causes important threat to health public and environment. one of the typical properties of heavy metals is that they cannot easily decompose in the environment. the aim of this study was to measure of heavy metals concentrations in old-age leachate from qazvin landfill site, iran. materials & me...

background: the purpose of study was to evaluate and compare chemical quality of iranian bottled drinking water reported on manufacturer's labeling and standards. methods: this study was a cross-sectional descriptive study and done during july to december 2008. the bottled mineral water collected from shops randomly were analyzed for all parameters address on manufacturer's labeling and the res...

In this paper, two formulas were chosen among those that estimate the suspendedsediment discharge in rivers. These two formulas were Lane and Kalinske and Bagnold. Forstudying and knowing the correlation between input parameters and calculated suspendedsediment discharge (CSSD), the SPSS17 software was used. Input parameters in these twoformulas were as: water velocity, water discharge, suspend...

Since 2004, an international testing program has certified 53 shipboard treatment systems as meeting ballast water discharge standards, including limits on certain microbes to prevent the spread of human pathogens. We determined how frequently certification tests failed a minimum requirement for a meaningful evaluation, that the concentration of microbes in the untreated (control) discharge mus...