1 Beijing Key Lab for Source Control Technology of Water Pollution, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Beijing Forestry University, No. 35 Qinghua East Road, Beijing 100083, China 2 State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China 3Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, P...

C.-J. Lin, L. Pan, D. G. Streets, S. K. Shetty, C. Jang, X. Feng, H.-W. Chu, and T. C. Ho Department of Civil Engineering, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX 77710, USA School of Environmental Science & Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, Guangdong, China Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX 77710, USA Decision and Information Scienc...

One hundred and nineteen samples of clay (n = 42), rock and sand temper (n = 7), and pottery (n = 70) from the various drainages in and around the North Carolina Sandhills were analyzed by instrumental neutron activation analysis (NAA) at the University of Missouri Research Reactor Center (MURR). Here we report the analytical methods and describe some of the chemical patterns identified in the ...

Arsenic occurs naturally in the earth's crust and is widely distributed in the environment. Natural mineralization and activities of microorganisms enhance arsenic mobilization in the environment but human intervention has exacerbated arsenic contamination. Although arsenic is useful for industrial, agricultural, medicinal and other purposes, it exerts a toxic effect in a variety of organisms, ...

1. Background 2. Elements, Nuclides, and Stable Isotopes 3. The Mass Spectrometer and Isotope Ratio Measurement 4. Isotope Fractionation 5. Temperature and Fractionation 6. Stable Isotopes in the Hydrologic Cycle 7. O in Minerals and Rocks 8. C and Carbon Cycling 9. N Cycling in Watersheds 10.S and the Sulfur Cycle 11. Chlorine and Bromine Isotopes 12. Light Lithophile Elements: δLi and δB Glos...

Bacteria are remarkable in their metabolic diversity due to their ability to harvest energy from myriad oxidation and reduction reactions. In some cases, their metabolisms involve redox transformations of metal(loid)s, which lead to the precipitation, transformation, or dissolution of minerals. Microorganism/mineral interactions not only affect the geochemistry of modern environments, but may a...

Despite modeling groundwater as a common property resource, existing economic analyses find that the quantitative difference between competitive and socially optimal groundwater management outcomes is negligible. Thus, in contrast to the public perception of groundwater overextraction and resource depletion, there appears to be no economic rationale for groundwater management. In this paper, we...

Groundwater is an important source of potable water because it is abundant and readily available in many locations and often requires little or no treatment. In 1995, groundwater accounted for approximately 20% of potable water use in the U.S., and approximately 50% of the U.S. population relied on groundwater for their source of drinking water. In most European countries, groundwater accounts ...

Recent EU legislation is directed to reverse the upward trends in the concentrations of agricultural pollutants in groundwater. However, uncertainty of the groundwater travel time towards the screens of the groundwater quality monitoring networks complicates the demonstration of trend reversal. We investigated whether trend reversal can be demonstrated by relating concentrations of pollutants i...

Many of the world's megacities depend on groundwater from geologically complex aquifers that are over-exploited and threatened by contamination. Here, using the example of Dhaka, Bangladesh, we illustrate how interactions between aquifer heterogeneity and groundwater exploitation jeopardize groundwater resources regionally. Groundwater pumping in Dhaka has caused large-scale drawdown that exten...