Water is an essential natural resource for sustaining life and environment which we have always thought to be available in abundance and a free gift of nature. Though groundwater is the major drinking water source, deterioration in its quality is questionable. In recent years, pollution by nitrate leaching from agricultural land has become an important concern. The notable toxic effect of nitra...

Wadi Gaza natural reserve in Palestine is exposed to aggressive pollution activities in the form of disposing huge amounts of wastewater and solid waste a long its bed. This study was initiated to investigate the extent to which the environment of Wadi Gaza has been damaged due to these activities. The specific environmental elements investigated in this work were: groundwater, soil, and sea wa...

The paper evaluated the potential of groundwater pollution in the Densu River Basin of Ghana. Groundwater is an important resource in this basin currently supporting domestic, agricultural and industrial activities. The significance of water resources and the potential for groundwater quality to deteriorate due various anthropogenic activities within the Densu River Basin has necessitated this ...

to study the spatial and temporal variation of nitrate pollution in groundwater in the vicinity of zayandehrud river in isfahan province monthly water samples were collected from 100 wells in the study area. the average n03-n concentration ranged from 1.2 to 25.7 mg/l (5.4 to 115.6 mg/i as no3) and average n03-n concentration in groundwater was 9.6 mg/i, which is lower than the standard limit (...

The effects of abundant Mancozeb (Mn, Zn-bisdithiocarbamate) applications (2.5 kg ha⁻¹week⁻¹ for 10 years) on soil and surface-, subsurface- and groundwater pollution were monitored in a banana production region of tropical Mexico. In soils, severe manganese accumulation was observed, wheras the main metabolite ethylenethiourea was near the detection limit. Surface and subsurface water was high...

A new methodology has been developed to design optimal monitoring network to estimate the transient pollution plume resulting from active pollution sources in a contaminated aquifer. An optimization algorithm is linked with geostatistical kriging model as well as a numerical simulation model. Simulated annealing is used as the optimization tool. The physical process in the aquifer, i.e., the fl...

Risk-based assessment is a way to evaluate the potential hazards of contaminated sites and is based on considering linkages between pollution sources, pathways, and receptors. These linkages can be broken by source reduction, pathway management, and modifying exposure of the receptors. In Taiwan, the Soil and Groundwater Pollution Remediation Act (SGWPR Act) uses one target regulation to evalua...

Nitrogen remains a ubiquitous pollutant in surface and groundwater throughout the United States, despite 30 years of pollution control efforts. A detailed multicompartment N balance for the Central Arizona-Phoenix ecosystem is used to illustrate how an ecosystem-level approach can be used to develop improved N management strategies. The N balance is used to demonstrate how nitrate in pumped gro...

Sorbitol-fermenting Bifidobacteria (SFB) proved to be an excellent indicator of very recent human faecal pollution (hours to days) in the investigated tropical stream and groundwater habitats. SFB were recovered from human faeces and sources potentially contaminated with human excreta. SFB were undetectable in animal faeces and environmental samples not contaminated with human faeces. Microcosm...

We report time-series data collected over two years for delta18O, delta2H, and Ca, Mg, K, and Cl, concentrations for 10 ponds in, and upflow of, an As-polluted region of southern West Bengal. We compare the compositions of As-polluted groundwaters from wells with the compositions of waters in ponds upflow, and within the range of influence, of the wells. Conservative tracers (delta18O, delta2H,...