This article suggests and discusses two novel aspects for the formulation of standards for environmental toxicants. First, uniform national standards for each pollutant will be underprotective for some ecosystems and overprotective for others, inasmuch as the toxicity of a pollutant to the indigenous biota is dependent on the physicochemical properties of the recipient environment. As the numbe...

Pollutants, brought into a swimming pool by bathers, will react with chlorine to form disinfection by-products (DBPs). Some of these DBPs are found to be respiratory and ocular irritant and might be associated with asthma, or might even be carcinogenic. As DBPs in swimming pools are formed from bather-shed-pollutants, a reduction of these pollutants will lead to a reduction of DBPs. Until now, ...

Simulation of Pollutant Transport Using a Particle Method S. Zimmermann,∗ P. Koumoutsakos,† and W. Kinzelbach∗ ∗Institute of Hydromechanics and Water Resources Management (IHW), ETH Hönggerberg, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland; and †Institute of Computational Sciences, ETH, Zürich CH-8092, Switzerland, and CTR, NASA Ames 202A-1, Moffett Field, California 94035 E-mail: [email protected], p...

To evaluate the environmental impact of pollution, mathematical models play a major role in predicting the pollution level in the regions under consideration. This paper examines the various mathematical models involving water pollutant. We also give the implicit central difference scheme in space, and a forward difference method in time for the evaluation of the generalized transport equation.

Unsealed roads and tracks are potentially significant sources of diffuse pollutants, particularly sediment. Identifying critical diffuse pollutant sources and their transport potential can greatly improve catchment-scale water quality management. This study describes the application and ongoing development of a road erosion and sediment transport model in the Moruya-Deua and Tuross River catchm...

A Simple Water Extraction Apparatus with Pollutant Shielding (SWEAPS) can extract clean water from polluted sources and ambient air.

We present and illustrate an approach to evaluate the options for watershed pollutant trading based on the development and application of a comprehensive simulation model. In particular, attention is focused on phosphorus as a nutrient/pollutant, and our illustrative case focuses on a portion of Chattahoochee watershed, between the outflow from Lake Lanier at the Buford Dam and the inflow to La...

The aim of the current study was to investigate the potential of an aquatic plant, the water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) devoid rhizospheric bacteria, to reduce naphthalene (a polyaromatic hydrocarbon) present in wastewater and wetlands. The capability of sterile water hyacinth plants to remove naphthalene from water and wastewater was studied in batch systems. Water hyacinths enhance the r...