One of the most important resources for drinking water is groundwater. Recently, the quality of groundwater has been endangered due to several reasons, including human activities, vast agricultural activities, and the discharge of industrial wastewater containing nitrogen (N) and heavy metals. For this study we investigated the values of NO3, NO2, and some heavy metals and analyzed the groundwa...

Short-lived radium isotopes (223Ra and 224Ra) are used to investigate the potential association between groundwater discharge and microbial pollution at Huntington Beach, CA. We establish the tidally driven exchange of groundwater from the surficial beach aquifer across the beach face. Groundwater is found to be a source of nutrients (silica, inorganic nitrogen, and orthophosphate) to the surf ...

Existence of heavy minerals in waters in some regions causes serious environmental pollution and affects the soil and water resources quality. Soil and waters sensitive to pollutants were investigated in this research, based on the degree of sensitivity of their parameters. The samples obtained from industrial and agricultural areas for identifying water tables at higher risk and display region...

At the “Pašino vrelo” source, groundwater is exploited by means of wells which tap a carbonate aquifer of Badenian age. The natural quality of groundwater complies with the provisions of the Regulation on health and safety of drinking water. However, anthropogenic impacts in the form of microbiological pollution have been observed. Extensive hydrogeological investigations have been conducted in...

In the Pingtung Plain of southern Taiwan, elevated levels of NO₃--N in groundwater have been reported. Therefore, efforts for assessing groundwater vulnerability are required as part of the critical steps to prevent and control groundwater pollution. This study makes a groundwater vulnerability assessment for the Pingtung Plain using an improved overlay and index-based DRASTIC model. The improv...

This work sets out a physical-stratigraphical reconstruction of the superficial aquifer in the Brindisi area; this site is recognized to be at significant environmental risk (Law no. 426/98) by the Italian government. Geological, hydrogeological and geophysical methodologies were applied. The geological characterisation consisted of surface 5 and subsoil surveys. The existing stratigraphical, g...

Water bodies around urban areas may be polluted with chemical elements from urban or industrial activities. We study the case of underground water pollution. This is a serious problem, since underground water is high qualified drinkable water in a world where this natural resource is increasingly reduced. This study is focused on a two-layer aquifer. If the superficial layer is contaminated, th...

Relevant implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive with regard to mine water pollution of downstream water bodies requires pressure-impact assessment and catchment-scale economic optimisation of abatement measures. However, pressure-impact assessment is bound to be uncertain. This is because mine water pollution is often an unknown combination of pollution loads, from both known mine w...

existence of heavy minerals in waters in some regions causes serious environmental pollution and affects the soil and water resources quality. soil and waters sensitive to pollutants were investigated in this research, based on the degree of sensitivity of their parameters. the samples obtained from industrial and agricultural areas for identifying water tables at higher risk and display region...

according to the reports, industrial livestock activities have most pernicious and harmful impacts on water resources quality. livestock activities include cattle breeding, animals feeding, cleaning animals resting sites, the storage of livestock manure and even abandoned places for livestock keeping impose large negative effects on water quality. such impacts stems from high density or livesto...