The aims of this study were to determine the pollution characteristics heavy metals and their potential harm human health in surface water agricultural irrigation areas, China, over a short term. In study, Cu, Zn, Pb, Hg, Ni, Cr, Cd, As Xiaohe River area detected analyzed. results showed that concentrations exceeded national environmental quality standard for varying degrees. October significan...

OBJECTIVE To assess the pollution of water bodies by domestic sewage and to evaluate the basic sanitation conditions of residences and the knowledge of the local population concerning intestinal parasitic diseases and the hazards they present to public health. METHODS Thirteen water samples were collected from each of four sites in different water bodies of the Bairro da Serra region, in Ipor...

Hydrogen peroxide has been used for decades in developed countries as an oxidizing agent in the treatment of water, domestic sewage and industrial effluents. This study evaluated the influence of the concentration of H2O2 and pH on the inactivation of Escherichia coli cells and the disinfection of sewage treated. The results showed that the inactivation rate increased with pH and H2O2. The pres...

This study was conducted to assess the effect of the water quality of El-Rahawy drain at El-Rahawy village, Egypt, on the African catfish Clarias gariepinus blood, biochemical parameters and histology of digestive tract, testis and ovaries. In addition to that, samples of water and C. gariepinus fish were collected from the River Nile at Delta Barrage in front of El-Kanater El-Khayria City as r...

BACKGROUND There are more than 350 wastewater treatment plants distributed across different parts of Oman. Some of them produce large quantities of domestic sewage sludge, particularly this study focused on characterizing domestic sludge of six treatment plants that may contain various pollutants, therefore the proper management of domestic sewage sludge is essential. METHODS Samples of domes...

the problem of environmental pollution is of everybody's concern. pollution of zarjoub river in northern iran is most often cause by the uncontrolled disposal of sewage and other wastes resulting from domestic uses of water, industrial wastes containing a variety of pollutants, agricultural affluent from animal husbandry, drainage of irrigation water and urban run-off. a study was carried out t...

Nowadays, agricultural R&D provides new and developed technologies to create modern agricultural producing methods. During recent years, improving agricultural productivity is affected by not only domestic R&D investments but also foreign countries R&D investments. Nowadays, according to new growth models, R&D is the base of productivity. Recent economic theories consider agricultural research ...

Anaerobic digesters have been responsible for the removal of large fraction of organic matter (mineralization of waste sludge) in conventional aerobic sewage treatment plants since the early years of domestic sewage treatment (DST). Attention on the anaerobic technology for improving the sustainability of sewage treatment has been paid mainly after the energy crisis in the 1970s. The successful...

Treatment of polluting discharges from abandoned mines is producing large quantities of ochre (mainly iron (III) oxides) for which no major end-use has yet been identified. At the same time, phosphorus pollution is a serious threat to the water environment in industrialised countries, causing eutrophication, algal blooms, fish kills and loss of water resources. Newcastle and Edinburgh Universit...

The fate and behavior of estrogenic substances in various biological wastewater treatment processes and several advanced sewage treatment processes were examined. The removal of 17beta-estradiol (E2), estrone (E1) and estriol (E3) was investigated by using a pilot-scale activated sludge plant supplied with domestic sewage. Several sewage treatment plants adopting the activated sludge process we...