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Evaluation of Toxic Heavy Metal Concentration in Aquifer System for Groundwater System Development Using Multivariate Statistical Techniques

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Akhtar N. (naseemamu6@gmail.com), Hussain R. S. R. (Rraed_hussain@uaeu.ac.ae) et al. View all

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Air pollution and health

Groundwater is a vital resource for human consumption. The study aimed to evaluate toxic metal concentrations in groundwater systems and determine pollutant sources using multivariate methods including cluster analysis (CA), principal factor analysis (PCA), and Pearson correlation coefficient (r)...

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Insights into polybrominated diphenyl ethers: occurrence, sources, and exposure health risk in selected solid waste impacted soils

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Onoriode O. Emoyan et al. View all

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Solid Waste Management

The Coordinated management of solid waste dumps from different anthropogenic environments is important for pollution management of immediate and adjacent ecosystems. This study took three soil profile samples from three functional zones: the rural, the suburban, and the urban solid waste dumps. The...

PBDEs occurrence soil pollution +3 more
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Drivers of nocturnal interactions between ground-level ozone and nitrogen dioxide

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Mohd Rodzi Ismail et al. View all

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Air pollution and health

This study analyses nighttime (7 p.m. to 6 a.m.) light pollution effects on ground-level ozone production in urban and sub-urban sites in Malaysia. In the absence of solar radiation, no photochemical reaction will occur during nighttime, resulting in zero readings of ground-level ozone (O3). O3 and...

Anthropogenic source Light intensity +3 more
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Impact of preozonation on biogas potential of PVC microplastics-containing waste sludge

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Andreja Žgajnar Gotvajn et al. View all

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Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

ABSTRACT Plastic pollution is increasing and plastic waste usually ends in environment. Microplastics (MP) as insoluble and anthropogenic micropollutant is ubiquitous and its concentration is expected to increase in the environment. One of important sources are wastewater treatment plants, where...

biogas production methane yield +4 more
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Seasonal variation of atmospheric total gaseous mercury and urban air quality in South India

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Manikanda Bharath K et al. View all

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Air pollution and health

This study analyses seasonal and regular variations in ambient atmospheric concentrations of total gaseous mercury (TGM), ancillary air pollutant concentrations, and their relationship to weather conditions of a megacity environment in India. Further, to correlate with TGM concentrations at...

Ambient air quality total gaseous mercury +4 more
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Hydrological behavior of natural springs/streams in mid hills of Chakrata Himalaya, India

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U K Maurya et al. View all

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Environmental management and policy

The present study was carried out to understand the hydrological behavior of natural springs/streams in Semalta watershed, Kalsi block, Dehradun. The surface catchment areas of springs/streams were delineated using Survey of India Toposheet (1:50,000 scale) whereas drainage, slope, and land use maps...

Watershed Chakrata Himalaya +3 more
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Water Quality Monitoring with Emphasis on Estimation of Point and Diffuse Pollution Sources

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Burcu SIMSEK UYGUN et al. View all

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Air pollution and health

Population growth, urbanization and anthropogenic activities are becoming a serious problem for water resources in Turkey, which necessitates their monitoring and maintenance of water quality. In this study, water quality was implemented in the Porsuk Stream in Inner Anatolia, Turkey. Water samples...

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Geochemical investigations regarding the variability of metal pollution in the Amvrakikos Bay, Greece.

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Diamantopoulou Athanasia et al. View all

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Green Chemistry and Sustainable Development

The Amvrakikos Bay is one of the most important ecosystems in the Mediterranean with great environmental, ecological and biological value. However, over the years, water quality has suffered severe degradation and is now one of the most polluted environmental areas in Greece. In the present study...

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Assessment of heavy metal pollution in sediments and their bioaccumulation in phragmites australis frome Nil river (Jijel- Algeria)

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Amira Widad et al. View all

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Environmental Sciences

The content of heavy metals in sediment and the aquatic plant Phragmites australis (roots and leaves), collected from six different stations along the Nil river, were determined providing information about heavy metals pollution status of this aquatic ecosystem. The results showed that the abundance...

Nil river Heavy metals +3 more
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Evaluation of the anthropogenic impact in Suat Ugurlu Dam lake using multivariate statistical techniques

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yuksel.ardali@omu.edu.tr et al. View all

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Environmental Sciences

Sediments play an important role in the quality of aquatic ecosystems in the Dam Lake where they can either be a sink or a source of contaminants, depending on the management. This purpose of this study is to identify the sediment quality in order to find out the causes for the malodor and the...

sediment Suat Ugurlu Dam +3 more
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Temporal variations of Eastern Black Sea Aerosol

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Ilker Balcilar et al. View all

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Environmental Sciences

In this study, chemical composition of coarse (PM2.5-10) and fine (PM2.5) aerosols and their seasonal characteristics was used to investigate factors affecting seasonal variations in concentrations of species. Concentrations of 17 trace elements and SO42- were determined in coarse and fine aerosol...

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Influence of mining and agricultural activities on the quality of groundwater from some rural areas of South-eastern Nigeria

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Itumoh E. J. et al. View all

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Air pollution and health

This study examined the trends in anthropogenic chemical contaminants in groundwater samples in rural areas of Ebonyi State, South-eastern Nigeria. Groundwater samples were collected from Ezza North (a quarry mining area) and Ezza South (an agricultural/commercial area) and were analysed using...

Keywords: groundwater arsenic +3 more
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Surface and subsurface water quality assessment in semi-arid region: a case study from Quetta and Sorange Intermontane Valleys, Pakistan

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Amir Waseem et al. View all

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Hydrology and Water Resources Management

Present investigation is an exertion to explore safe means of water for the community in the water scare region. In order to accomplish such goal origin of springs as well as chemical analyses of groundwater samples from different locations were carried out. Four zones are discovered on the basis of...

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Lower Douro River basin (Portugal) water quality – Focus on trace element changes and anthropogenic sources of contamination

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Agostinho A. Almeida et al. View all

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Air pollution and health

The Douro River lower basin water quality was studied regarding its concentration on 18 trace elements (Be, Al, Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Se, Mo, Ag, Cd, Sb, Ba, Tl, Pb and U, measured by ICP-MS). Other physicochemical parameters, such as pH, conductivity, dissolved oxygen and water temperature...

Douro River lower basin Trace Elements +4 more
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Study of size-segregated particle (PM1, PM2,5, PM10) concentrations over Greece

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Koulouri E., Grivas G., Gerasopoulos E., Chaloulakou A., Mihalopoulos N. and Spyrellis N.

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General

This study reports particulate matter levels of various size fractions (PM10, PM2.5, and PM1) and identify their controlling factors, in various locations over Greece. It combines long-term data sets involving particle concentrations as measured in the island of Crete in the Eastern Mediterranean...

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Seasonal variations in dissolved heavy metals in the Keritis river, Chania, Greece

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Papafilippaki A.K., Kotti M.E. and Stavroulakis G.G.

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General

Agrochemicals, geochemical structure and industrial wastes create a potential source of heavy metal pollution in the aquatic environment. The porpuse of this study was to investigate the seasonal variations in five heavy metals (Cu, Zn, Cd, Pb and Cr) in the surface water of the Keritis river, one...

Seasonal variations River water +3 more
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Sources and variability of non-methane hydrocarbons in the Eastern Mediterranean

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Arsene C., Bougiatioti A., Mihalopoulos N.

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General

The volume mixing ratios of non-methane hydrocarbons including saturated, unsaturated and aromatic ones (C2 to C8 as non methane hydrocarbons, NMHCS) were measured at three distinct sites (natural, rural, urban) in the lower troposphere of the Eastern Mediterranean from February 2006 to March 2007...

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Chemical composition of precipitation at coastal and marine sampling sites in Mexico

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Ceron R.M., Ceron J.G., Cordova A.V., Zavala J. and Muriel M.

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General

Chemical characteristics of wet precipitation were measured in Acapulco, Cancun, Tapachula, Puerto Morelos and Tropical Pacific Ocean; from August 1999 to October 2001. The samples were analyzed for pH, Na+, K+, Ca2+, Mg2+, NH4 +, SO4 2-, NO3 - and Cl-. Ionic abundance revealed a significant...

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A spatially allocated emissions inventory for Cyprus

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Tsilingiridis G., Sidiropoulos C., Pentaliotis A., Evripidou C., Papastavros C., Mesimeris T. and Pa... View all

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General

In this paper, a detailed spatial allocated emissions inventory for Cyprus is presented. Topdown and bottom-up methodologies are implemented and emissions are estimated from all anthropogenic sources for the reference year 2002 with the aid of state-of-the-art algorithms. Emission factors...

Air Pollutants air quality +3 more
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Identification of Ion sources in rainwater of a coastal site impacted by the gas and oil industry in the southeast of Mexico

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Ceron R.M., Ceron J.G., Muriel M., Cardenas B. and Anguebes F.

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The purpose of this research was to study the chemical composition of rainwater to assess the impact of marine aerosol and anthropogenic emissions by using back air-mass trajectories. Fieldwork was done from July to November 2004, in a coastal site probably impacted by gas and oil industry in...

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Mercury content in garden soils of urban agglomeration

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Dabkowska-Naskr?t H.and R??a?ski Sz.

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The study report the degree of mercury contamination in garden soils of urban agglomeration and local sources of heavy metals emission like traffic and coal combustion. The urban soils have been compared with cultivated rural counterparts, developed on similar parent material. Mercury contents in...

mercury in soils garden soils +2 more
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Physical and Chemical Characteristics of a Mediterranean Coastal Microenvironment: The "Salty Lake" of Aghios Nikolaos (Crete, Greece)

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Mihopoulos N., Dassenakis M., Anastasakis G. and Scoullos M.

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General

The present paper examines a small and deep (53 m) salty lake, as well as the adjacent harbor of Aghios Nikolaos (Crete). The survey was carried out in 1996. Physicochemical parameters indicated that the main characteristics of the system are the inflow of karstic water from underwater springs...

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