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Water Pollution. In subject area: Earth and Planetary Sciences. Water pollution is defined as the phenomenon of contamination of water sources by various unwanted and undesirable substances termed as pollutants such as chemical compounds, pathogens, organic and inorganic substances, heat, trash, radioactive materials, etc., rendering the water ...
3.3. Current gaps and new challenges of water pollution control. Water pollution control in China didn't keep pace with socio-economic development, so China's rivers were heavily polluted because of the directly discharging of a large amount of wastewater in the past twenty years (Wang et al., 2019).
Water biodiversity is continuously declining in both freshwater and marine environments as a result of the overuse of species, the introduction of exotic plants or animals, pollution from cities, industries, and agricultural areas, the loss and alteration of ecological niches, and pollution sources from these sources.
Water degradation has worsened across the globe since the 1990s and is expected to escalate even further, leading to increased threats and negative impacts to human health and the environment. Global water quality challenges need urgent attention and cohesive informed actions to avoid a global water predicament in the near future. Previous.
Water pollution is the major cause of ecological degradation on our planet; it directly affects human water supplies, often with serious consequences to public health. A wide range of contaminants—including chemicals, pathogens, and nutrients—has been and is currently being introduced into the natural environment.
Agricultural water pollution is a problem globally and is anticipated to increase as the human population grows and demand for food increases and changes towards a diet consisting of higher levels of protein. The predicted outcomes will be more livestock, greater intensity of production and increased use of chemicals including pharmaceuticals.
Water Research has an open access mirror journal, Water Research X which shares the same aims and scope, editorial team, submission system and rigorous peer review as Water Research. $4520. Article publishing charge. for open access.
Water pollution is one of the global challenges that society must address in the 21st century aiming to improve water quality and reduce human and ecosystem health impacts. Industrialization, climate change, and expansion of urban areas produce a variety of water pollutants.
Nevertheless, the amount of water required and the frequency of cleaning relies on several variables such as dust characteristics, wind speed, wind direction, panel orientation, tilt angle, temperature, rainfall, vegetation, air pollution, humidity, and glazing properties (Dhar et al., 2020).
However, current assessments of water pollution seldomly take a multi-pollutant perspective, while this is essential for improving water quality. This study quantifies inputs of multiple pollutants to rivers from livestock production worldwide, by animal types and spatially explicit. We focus on nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and Cryptosporidium ...