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- This book considers several novel aspects on the anthropogenic contribution to the organic contamination of the aquatic systems.
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It is known for milleniums, that water is forming the principle base for the total biosphere including human beings ('Thales [of Milet] says that it [the nature of things] is water' Aristoteles, Metaph. 983 b20), Nevertheless, basically the anthropogenic activities and human requirements, in particular our enormous consume of chemicals, are affecting worldwide the aquatic environment on a rapidly increasing level. Consequently, huge scientific efforts, worldwide, focussed intensively on increasing the knowlegde about the state of pollution and on the most important processes harming the aquatic systems. The overall aim is the rehabilitation and protection of this unique and essential compartment. Environmental studies on riverine and groundwater systems are base research activities at the Institute of Geology and Geochemistry of Petroleum and Coal, RWTH Aachen University. This book summarizes the analytical and organic-geochemical work performed between 1998 and 2003 at this institute. All the individual studies and the corresponding results were separately published in various scientific journals. However, I felt the substantial need to combine these individual parts in order to reveal a comprehensive overview on all the different and novel aspects concerning the organic contamination of rivers and groundwater.
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Book Title: Organic Contaminants in Riverine and Groundwater Systems
Book Subtitle: Aspects of the Anthropogenic Contribution
Authors: Jan Schwarzbauer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31172-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-31169-0Published: 04 April 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06828-7Published: 14 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-31172-0Published: 01 July 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 464
Topics: Pollution, general, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Water Quality/Water Pollution, Hydrogeology, Organic Chemistry, Ecotoxicology