A Water Quality Assessment of the Former Soviet Union

ISBN-13: 9780367865931 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 640 str.

Vitaly Kimstach; Michel Meybeck; Ellysar Baroudy

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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