fluoride is an essential element for human health. however, excess fluoride in drinking water may cause dental and/or skeletal fluorosis. drinking water is the main route of fluoride intake. the aim of the present study was to measure fluoride levels in human breast milk collected from two regions of golestan province, northern iran with different amount of fluoride concentration of drinking wa...

The Mayang River in Jember Regency has a length of approximately 145.50 km which is the longest river and can irrigate an area 5,860 hectares. use by community produce waste, both domestic agricultural livestock waste. Waste that enters directly into bodies cause decrease water quality create pollution load. Therefore, measurement load capacity was conducted. samples were taken using grab sampl...

Annually, 200 ha of Agh Ghala rangelands in Golestan, Iran are under Alkaligrass Puccinella distans's cultivation but the failure in the identification of appropriate sites for seed sowing may result in high costs of cultivation. The current study aims to reduce such costs through the examination of apt sites to grow P. distans in northern rangelands of Agh Ghala Golestan, Iran. Because of the ...

for determination of so2 concentration and its variation due to time and location within tehran air-shed area, department of environmental health, school of public health installed two units of semiautomatic air sampler, in tehran university campus and ghazvin-square area. collected samples were analyzed according to hydrogen peroxide method and for each month arithmetic mean was calculated. th...

a rapid and reproducible method is described that employs solid phase extraction (spe) using dichloromethane, followed by gas chromatograph-mass spectrometry for the determination of toxic toluene, xylene and cumene (txc) from different lake water of dhaka mega city of bangladesh. the method was applied to detect and quantify txc in water samples collected from surface and 30 cm depth of water....

Annually, 200 ha of Agh Ghala rangelands in Golestan, Iran are under Alkaligrass Puccinella distans''s cultivation but the failure in the identification of appropriate sites for seed sowing may result in high costs of cultivation. The current study aims to reduce such costs through the examination of apt sites to grow P. distans in northern rangelands of Agh Ghala Golestan, Iran. Because of the...

In this study, the level of selected organophosphorus and organochlorine pesticide residues from water samples of Gilgle Gibe (I) hydroelectric dam reservoir and its potential tributaries, Jimma zone, Ethiopia, was determined by gas chromatography-electron capture detector (GC-ECD). Low density based dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction (LD-DLLME) using toluene (as extractant) and acetonitr...

although water and land pollution are very dangerous, air pollution has its own peculiarities due to its transboundary dispersion of pollutants over the entire world. in any well planned urban set up, industrial pollution takes a back seat and vehicular emissions take precedence as the major cause of urban air pollution. in the present study, air pollution tolerance index was calculated for var...