Water quality degradation in river systems has caused great concerns all over the world. Identifying the spatial distribution and sources of water pollutants is the very first step for efficient water quality management. A set of water samples collected bimonthly at 12 monitoring sites in 2009 and 2010 were analyzed to determine the spatial distribution of critical parameters and to apportion t...

Water resource management must strive to link catchment information with water quality monitoring. The present study attempted this for the field of microbial fecal source tracking (MST). A fecal pollution source profile based on catchment data (e.g., prevalence of fecal sources) was used to formulate a hypothesis about the dominant sources of pollution in an Austrian mountainous karst spring c...

A brief history of air pollution Accounts of air pollution in the UK date back to the 13 century. Early occurrences resulted from rapid population growth, urbanisation and changes in fuel use – in particular the medieval switch from wood to coal, especially in brick kilns and domestic fireplaces. Coal combustion in industrial furnaces, boilers and, above all, in domestic fireplaces, was the mai...

Since the late eighties pollution prevention or waste minimization has become a concept which is extensively used to influence the behavior of companies towards a more environmentally friendly direction. Environmental policy previously used to lead mainly to end-of-pipe solutions. Pollution prevention (policies) on the other hand aims at minimizing waste and emissions by reduction at the source...

geothermal energy because of its versatility has extensive applications in power generation, industry, agriculture, treatment of diseases etc: ...this source of energy has received great attention in recent years many countries in the world are benefiting from it. it possesses an eternal heat source and is pollution free. in this article it is tried to demonstrate the importance of georhermal e...

BACKGROUND Relatively few studies have examined the association between air pollution and stroke mortality. Inconsistent and inclusive results from existing studies on air pollution and stroke justify the need to continue to investigate the linkage between stroke and air pollution. No studies have been done to investigate the association between stroke and greenness. The objective of this study...

Contrary to the general trend of only a few actual trades occurring within point-nonpoint source water quality trading programs in the United States, two trading projects in the Minnesota River Basin, created under the provisions of National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits, have generated five major trades and numerous smaller ones. In this paper, these two projects are d...

the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of different amounts of hydrogen peroxide and iron resources in refining petroleum (kerosene) contaminated soils using fenton reaction. for this, ten complex soil samples around tehran oil refinery were collected and after preparations were contaminated with two levels of 10 and 20% of petroleum (kerosene) in triplicate. after reaching equilib...

Volume 1 • Issue 2 • 1000e103 J Pollut Eff Cont ISSN: JPE, an open access journal The end-point treatment of point pollution sources is the best way to improve the quality of water and prevent coastal pollution, all over the world. Nevertheless, non-point pollution sources that influence the quality of surface water are serious concerns. Terrestrial pollution was deposited and accumulated over ...

noise pollution can be considered as the most important problem of urban environmental management in mega metropolises and urban transportation is the main source of the mentioned problem. this study aims to investigate the amount of traffic noise dose received by traffic policemen in tehran; district 1 municipality. the investigation was conducted during three consecutive months in 2007 in 282...