optimal identification of ground-water pollution sources

Identification of primary sources of faecal pollution

Waterborne pathogens from faecal pollution continue to be major contributors to outbreaks of infectious disease in many areas around the world. While developed countries have made much progress in municipal wastewater treatment and management of agricultural wastes, faecal contamination of source waters for drinking, recreation and rearing of shellfish still contributes to outbreaks of infectio...

Hypothesis-Driven Approach for the Identification of Fecal Pollution Sources in Water Resources

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...

The Risk of Pollution of Ground Water from Borehole Latrines

The role of soil layers in preventing ground water pollution with 17ß-estradiol hormone (E2)

Background: Estrogens include estoril (E3), estradiol and estrone (E1). These chemicals are produced in human and animal bodies as well as in synthetic chemicals (drugs). Estrogens can enter water sources in different ways. When these chemicals enter the human body through water and wastewater, they have the ability to mimic or disrupt the normal estrogen activities in humans and animals. Estro...

investigation of pollution sources and water quality of tajan river

rivers are one of the most valuable aquatic ecosystems that their physiochemical properties and the biology of their organisms have strong interactions. one of the major rivers in iran, which covers a variety of ecosystems, is called tajan river. in this research, the effect of different pollution sources on water quality of this water body was investigated. samples were collected in seven diff...

Water Quality Modeling in Persian Gulf Considering Thermal Pollution Sources of Industrial Plants

Numerical modeling is carried out to investigate the spreading pattern of industrial wastewater released from coastal refineries and power plant into thePersian Gulf. The pollutant sources due to the wastewater outfall of the coastal industrial plants are completely considered in the model. The effects of sources are inspected on the adjacent marine environment. The numerical model is developed...