Microbial pollution of water from agriculture

The EU Nitrates Directive: a European approach to combat water pollution from agriculture.

From 1991 onward, the European Union (EU) member states have had to comply with the Nitrates Directive. The aim of this directive is to sustainably protect ground and surface waters from pollution with nitrogen (nitrate) originating from agriculture. Agriculture is, on an EU level, the largest single source of nitrate (runoff, leaching) pollution, although households and industries also contrib...

Microbial Source Tracking to Identify Fecal Pollution Sources in Water

Janis L. Thomas (Environmental Monitoring and Reporting Branch, Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) Susan Weir and Ann-Marie Irwin-Abbey (Laboratory Services Branch, Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, Toronto, Ontario,...

Mapping and analysis of pressures on water resources from agriculture to target water and agriculture policies

11 A recent work carried out by CREA (ex INEA) compared spatial analysis of the main problems 12 concerning the use of water resources for irrigation in Italian River basin districts (RBD) with the 13 policy measures for water resources and agriculture, in order to verify the relevance of planning 14 to address specific regional sensitivities. The bases for the policy analysis was River basin 1...

The Water Pollution Policy Regime Shift and Boundary Pollution: Evidence from the Change of Water Pollution Levels in China

Boundary environmental pollution and pollution spillovers are important issues for improving the water quality of trans-boundary rivers. This paper explores the empirical effects of the evolution of the pollution reduction mandates on boundary pollution by studying the change of water pollution levels (as proxied by pH, BOD, COD and NH3-N) of key state monitoring stations from 2004 to 2014. The...

Reducing nutrient pollution, challenges in agriculture