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Zhang Fang, Zhiguo Liu, Siyuan Zhao, Yanlin Ma, Xia Li and Han Gao
Oilfield drilling sites are the potential dispersive pollution source of groundwater, especially to shallow groundwater. The pollution risk assessment in these areas is an important reference for effective groundwater management and protection. The vulne...
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Christine Costa and Frederick Lia
In the opportunity to understand the benefits of Maltese soil and its importance to our climate, the content of heavy metals?including Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb, Sr, and Zn?was studied in two fields in proximity in the south-east region of Malta. Analyt...
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Magdalena Strzebonska, Agnieszka Gruszecka-Kosowska and Anna Kostka
Urban rainwater samples, collected in various districts of Kraków during the period from the spring of 2019 to the winter of 2020, were investigated, and relevant risk implications were assessed. The contents of 31 components were determined, including: ...
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Arghadyuti Banerjee, Leo Creedon, Noelle Jones, Laurence Gill and Salem Gharbia
Assuring the quantity and quality of groundwater resources is essential for the well-being of human and ecological health, society, and the economy. For the last few decades, groundwater vulnerability modeling techniques have become essential for groundw...
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Ayoub Barkat, Foued Bouaicha, Sabrina Ziad, Tamás Mester, Zsófi Sajtos, Dániel Balla, Islam Makhloufi and György Szabó
In this research, contamination levels and the spatial pattern identification, as well as human and environmental health risk assessments of the heavy metals in the phreatic groundwater aquifer of the Oued Souf Valley were investigated for the first time...
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Jiafeng Pang, Kairong Lin, Wenhui Gan, Sike Hu and Wei Luo
Contamination assessment and source analysis of urban waterways are important for the environmental management of water resources. This study applied an improved water quality index (WQI), which was called WQI-DET (water quality index deterioration) to a...
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Peiyue Li, Jianhua Wu and Saurabh Shukla
In many regions of the world, groundwater is the main water source for multiple uses, including for drinking, irrigation, and industry. Groundwater quality, therefore, is closely related to human health, and the consumption of contaminated groundwater ca...
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Ammar A. Mannaa, Athar Ali Khan, Rabea Haredy and Aaid G. Al-Zubieri
The Al-Salam Lagoon is one of the recreational sites along the Jeddah coast, showing the environmental impacts of urbanization along the coast. A sediment core (220 cm) was collected from the intertidal zone to evaluate the heavy metals (Fe, Mn, Cr, Ni, ...
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Katarzyna Szwedziak, Zaneta Grzywacz, Ewa Polanczyk, Piotr Bebenek and Marian Olejnik
The paper presents the method of using vision techniques and artificial neural networks to assess the degree of contamination of cereal during grain reception. The aim of the work is to optimize the management of the contaminant evaluation process of gra...
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Xuexia Huang, Dinggui Luo, Dongye Zhao, Ning Li, Tangfu Xiao, Jingyong Liu, Lezhang Wei, Yu Liu, Lirong Liu and Guowei Liu
A total of 43 water and sediment samples, and 34 Corbicula fluminea samples were collected in Xijiang River in southern China to determine the spatial distribution and sources of 12 metals/metalloids (V, Co, Cr, Ni, Cu, Mn, Zn, Cd, Pb, As, Sb, and Tl) an...
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Edward A. McBean, Mohammad Adnan Rajib and Md. Mujibur Rahman
The supply of water for rural populations in developing countries continues to present enormous problems, particularly where there is arsenic contamination in the groundwater, as exists over significant parts of Bangladesh. In response, improvements in t...
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Nafiaah Naqash, Mamdoh T. Jamal and Rahul Singh
Amidst industrialization and urbanization, wetlands face pollution challenges. We investigated the seasonal distribution of five heavy metals (As, Cd, Cr, Pb, and Zn) in the surface water of Harike wetland. The surface water samples were collected from f...
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Moustafa El Baba, Prabin Kayastha, Marijke Huysmans and Florimond De Smedt
The Gaza Strip is in a chronic state of water shortage and the coastal aquifer as the only freshwater source is increasingly depleted and polluted, especially by nitrate. Assessment of groundwater vulnerability to pollution is essential for adequate prot...
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Yueming Lu, R. Paul Philp and Coralie Biache
Fecal contamination is a major concern for water quality management, since the fecal materials are associated with pathogens that can cause illness wherever water is used for recreational, drinking and aquaculture purposes. In order to monitor source(s) ...
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Jie Yang, Linglong Cao, Jianhua Wang, Chunlian Liu, Chuguang Huang, Weixu Cai, Hongda Fang and Xiaojuan Peng
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Barbara Tchórzewska-Cieslak, Katarzyna Pietrucha-Urbanik, Janusz Rak, Dorota Papciak, Petr Hlavínek and Krzysztof Chmielowski
The lack of biochemical stability in drinking water increases the secondary contamination risk in water supply systems and hence represents a sanitary threat to consumers. The work presented here assesses the likelihood of such risk. The assessment is ba...
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Agnieszka Klimkowicz-Pawlas, Bozena Smreczak and Barbara Maliszewska-Kordybach
Agricultural land is often located close to highly urbanised/industrialised areas and is subject to continuous anthropogenic pressure associated with the emission of many pollutants, ultimately deposited in the soil. Most studies on ecological risk asses...
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Mulin Chen, Hongyan Cai, Li Wang and Mei Lei
Understanding the risks posed by potentially toxic metals (PTMs) in large regions is important for environmental management. However, regional risk assessment that relies on traditional field sampling or administrative statistical data is labor-intensive...
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Amira Oun, Arun Kumar, Timothy Harrigan, Andreas Angelakis and Irene Xagoraraki
Most of the waterborne disease outbreaks observed in North America are associated with rural drinking water systems. The majority of the reported waterborne outbreaks are related to microbial agents (parasites, bacteria and viruses). Rural areas are char...
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Chaloemporn Ponprasit, Yong Zhang, Xiufen Gu, Andrew M. Goodliffe and Hongguang Sun
Groundwater vulnerability assessment helps subsurface water resources management by providing scientific information for decision-makers. Rigorous, quantitative assessment of groundwater vulnerability usually requires process-based approaches such as gro...
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