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Water Quality Hazards and Dispersion of Pollutants by Gerhard H. Jirka, Volker Weitbrecht (auth.), Włodzimierz Czernuszenko, Paweł M. Rowiński (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Water Quality Hazards and Dispersion of Pollutants about?

Water resources are under stress worldwide and one of the elements of this stress - man's impact on water quality constitutes a key problem especially in well-developed countries. This problem receives an increasing attention of the public, politicians, decision makers nowadays. People have to answer how to achieve any given level and pattern of water quality in particular watercourses and also how to mitigate the catastrophes that are inseparable elements of civilization. The EU water framework directive, which came into force at the end of 2000, changes the way of monitoring, assessing and managing water in European countries. Three groups of quality elements (biological, hydromorphological and physico-chemical) have been identified in the water framework directive as necessary to classify the ecological status of a particular water body. There are however many significant shortfalls and gaps not only in the countries information but also at the basic understanding of the physical processes occurring in various water bodies and the presented volume aims at filling some of those gaps. One should also mention about other EU directives, like the dangerous substances directive, drink

Who reads Water Quality Hazards and Dispersion of Pollutants?

Author

Gerhard H. Jirka, Volker Weitbrecht (auth.), Włodzimierz Czernuszenko, Paweł M. Rowiński (eds.)

Publisher

Springer Science+Business Media, Inc

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9786610234042

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Engineering, Technology, Management