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Delineating Spring Recharge Areas in a Fractured Sandstone Aquifer (Luxembourg) Based on Pesticide Mass Balance
Farlin, Julien; Drouet, Laurent; Gallé, T.; Pittois, D.; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
arable land in proportion to the pesticide mass discharged annually in a spring at minimum total transport cost. The approach … was applied to the Luxembourg Sandstone, a fractured-rock aquifer supplying half of the drinking water for Luxembourg …, using the herbicide atrazine. Predictions of the recharge areas were most robust in situations of strong competition by …
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Delineating Spring Recharge Areas in a Fractured Sandstone Aquifer (Luxembourg) Based on Pesticide Mass Balance
Farlin, Julien; Drouet, Laurent; Gallé, T.; Pittois, D.; … - 2014
arable land in proportion to the pesticide mass discharged annually in a spring at minimum total transport cost. The approach … was applied to the Luxembourg Sandstone, a fractured-rock aquifer supplying half of the drinking water for Luxembourg …, using the herbicide atrazine. Predictions of the recharge areas were most robust in situations of strong competition by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491224
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Nitrate pollution of groundwater long exceeding trigger value : fertilization practices require more transparency and oversight
Sundermann, Greta; Wägner, Nicole; Cullmann, Astrid; … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 10 (2020) 8/9, pp. 61-72
-fifth of the groundwater sampling sites in Germany. Apart from impairing the ecosystem by, for example, causing eutrophication … the fertilizer ordinance in 2017, it remains insufficient to effectively combat nitrate pollution of groundwater. As a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012175779
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Factors Influencing Participation Intention for Improving River Water Quality : An Empirical Evidence from Dhaka, Bangladesh
Islam, Md Ariful - 2020
The improvement of river water quality has been recognized as a means of achieving successful river restoration that shows improved morphological, biota and ecological conditions. A better understanding of the factors that influence public participation in improving water quality can contribute...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822702
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Assessing the value of surface water and groundwater quality improvements when time lags and outcome uncertainty exist : results from a choice experiment survey across four differe...
Larsen, Tobias Holmsgaard; Lundhede, Thomas Hedemark; … - 2020
) for improvements in surface water quality as well as groundwater quality. A particular novel focus is on estimating the … average have quite high WTP for improvements in water quality, both in relation to surface water and groundwater. In addition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306405
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Socio-economic Risks of Groundwater Vulnerability, Contamination & Earthquakes : Revisiting The Izmit (1999) and Kahramanmaras (2023) Earthquakes in Turkiye
Bayraktar, Dr. Murat - 2023
Human activity is almost invariably the cause of groundwater contamination. Groundwater is particularly at risk in … purposeful or unintentional release of chemicals or wastes into the environment has the possibility of polluting groundwater …. Cleaning up after groundwater contamination is challenging and expensive.The Kahramanmaras region has suffered an unimaginable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358165
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Shale Gas Development and the Costs of Groundwater Contamination Risk
Muehlenbachs, Lucija - 2013
identify the capitalization of groundwater contamination risk in property values, differentiating it from other externalities …. However, groundwater contamination concerns fully offset those gains by reducing property values up to 26 percent …
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Pesticide Use and Health Outcomes : Evidence from Agricultural Water Pollution in China
Lai, Wangyang - 2016
By linking provincial pesticide usage reports from several Chinese statistical yearbooks (1998-2011) with the Chinese … between people who drink surface water and ground water in regions with different intensities of rice pesticide use before and …% increase in rice pesticide use unfavorably alters a key medical disability index (Activities of Daily Living or ADL) by 1% for …
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Arsenic contamination of drinking water and mental health
Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Krause, Anabelle; Zimmermann, … - 2016
This paper investigates the effect of drinking arsenic contaminated water on mental health. Drinking water with an unsafe arsenic level for a prolonged period can lead to arsenicosis and associated illness. Based on rich and newly collected household survey data from Bangladesh, we construct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521291
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Arsenic contamination of drinking water and mental health
Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle; … - 2015
arsenic contamination of groundwater to construct several measures for arsenic contamination that include the actual arsenic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347206