Michel Meybeck (ed.)

Water Quality Assessment in the Former Soviet Union

Herausgeber: Kimstach, Vitaly; Baroudy, Ellysar; Meybeck, Michel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Focuses on water quality issues using examples from around the former Soviet Union. This book covers the background to the natural water resources and composition of surface and ground waters in the former Soviet Union and then proceeds to examine the influence of human activity on those resources and water quality systems.

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With unique material not previously available in English, this important book presents detailed analyses of generic problems and possible solutions applicable beyond the former Soviet Union. It comes complete with more than one hundred line illustrations and tables.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bsp Books Pvt. Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1052g
• ISBN-13: 9780419239208
• ISBN-10: 0419239200
• Artikelnr.: 34437160

Autorenporträt

Vitaly Kimstach, Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme in Oslo, Norway Michel Meybeck, Laboratory of Applied Geology, University of Paris IV Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris Ellysar Baroudy, Monitoring and Assessment Research Centre (MARC), King's College London

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Acknowledgements. Natural Water Resourses. Natural Composition of
Surface Water and Ground Waters. Water Use and the Influence of
Anthropogenic Activity. Water Quality Monitoring Systems. Salinisation.
Eutrophication of Lakes and Reservoirs. Groundwater Contamination by
Nitrogen and Phosphorus Compounds. Heavy Metals, Natural Variability and
Anthropogenic Impacts. Organic Pollutants. Microbial Pollution.
Acidification. River Fluxes. Hydrobiological Assessment. The Lower Don
Basin. The Amu Darya. Rybinsk Reservoir on the Volga River. Dnieper and its
Cascade of Reservoirs. Lake Baikal. Lake Ladoga. Water Resourses of the
Moscow Region. General Appendices. Index.