Description
Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies such as lakes, rivers, oceans, and groundwater caused by human activities, which can be harmful to organisms and plants which live in these water bodies. Although natural phenomena such as volcanoes, algae blooms, storms, and earthquakes also cause major changes in water quality and the ecological status of water, water is typically referred to as polluted when it impaired by anthropogenic contaminants and either does not support a human use (like serving as drinking water) or undergoes a marked shift in its ability to support its constituent biotic communities. Water pollution has many causes and characteristics. This new book concentrates on lake pollution.
Expert Commentary – Albano, Bolsena and Bracciano are the most important lakes in Central Italy; the relevance and the potential vulnerability of these lakes is enhanced by their location in a populous area, with a high water demand for agriculture and other public uses. The waters of Lake Bracciano are already utilized for drinking supply to the city of Rome.
The aim of this paper is to update the information on the water chemistry of these lakes, on the basis of samplings carried out by the authors; moreover experimental data are compared with similar analyses available from the literature.
Besides the mass hydraulic balance of the lake system, the whole volcanic basin was considered and data related to the period 2000-2005 were also highlighted.
CONTENTS
Preface vii
Short Communication:
An Updated Report on the Water Chemistry of the Lakes of Central Italy 1
Franco Medici and Gilberto Rinaldi
Chapter 1 Environmetrics as a Tool for Lake Pollution Assessment 13
Aleksander Astel and Vasil Simeonov
Chapter 2 Lakes in the Apulian Karst (Southern Italy): Geology, Karst Morphology, and Their Role in The Local History 63
Mario Parise
Chapter 3 Ecotoxicity and Bioaccumulation of Toxin from Cylindrospermopsis Raciborskii: Towards the Development of Environmental Protection Guidelines for Contaminated Water Bodies 81
Susan H. W. Kinnear, Leo J. Duivenvoorden and Larelle D. Fabbro
Chapter 4 Focus on Understanding the Relation Between Lakes and Pollution – Model- Based Approach and Case Study of Subarctic Lake 107
Ryunosuke Kikuchi and Tamara T. Gorbacheva
Chapter 5 Aquatic Pollutant Assessment Across Multiple Scales 133
Clint D. McCullough
Chapter 6 Fish Assemblage Subjected to Strong Anthropogenic Stress: The Case of the Barra Bonita Reservoir, Tietê River Basin, São Paulo, Brazil 157
M. L. Petesse
Chapter 7 Pollution Impacts and Key Anthropogenically-Induced Processes in Lakes of Russian Euro-Arctic Region 213
Tatyana I. Moiseenko
Chapter 8 Health Effects of Lake Pollution 245
Paul Froom
Chapter 9 Mean Residence Times of Stream and Spring Water in a Small Forested Watershed with a Thick Weathered Layer 289
Naoki Kabeya, Akira Shimizu, Yoshio Tsuboyama, Tatsuhiko Nobuhiro and Jianjun Zhang
Chapter 10 An Analysis of Internal Phosphorus Loading in White Lake, Michigan 311
Alan D. Steinman, Mary Ogdahl and Mark Luttenton
Chapter 11 Hydraulic Characterization of Deep Aquifer(s) in the Arsenic Affected Meghna Floodplain, Southeastern Bangladesh 327
Anwar Zahid, M. Qumrul Hassan, Jeff L. Imes, David W. Clark, Satish C. Das and M. Zainal Abdin
Chapter 12 Weight-of-Evidence Assessment of Impacts from an Abandoned Mine Site to the Dasserat Lake Watershed, Quebec, Canada 355
Richard R. Goulet and Yves Couillard
Index 371