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Inorganic Contaminants in the Vadose Zone

Inorganic Contaminants in the Vadose Zone

Bar-Yosef, Bnayahu
Barrow, N. J.
Goldshmid, J.

Paperback

Series: Ecological Studies, Book 74

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ISBN10: 3642744532
ISBN13: 9783642744532
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Dec 14 2011
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The understanding of pollutant transformations, sorption and transport in soils and uptake by plants is the key to controlling contaminant movement towards groundwater and accumulation in food-chains. Some of these major processes were discussed in the first International Workshop on Pollutants in Porous Media, con- vened in Israel in 1983 (pollutants in Porous Media, Eds. Yaron, Dagan and Goldshmid, Springer-Verlag, 1984). Since that meeting, research on contaminant impact on the environment expanded considerably. New mechanisms explaining inorganic pollutant par- titioning between solid and solution phases in soils were proposed and tested; specific elements and specific reactions were investigat- ed, and more case studies to evaluate management practice effects on drinking water quality and accumulation of contaminants in crops were carried out. The recognition that the new knowledge needs to be discussed and evaluated, and the scientific and engineering communities be updated, led the IUPAC (Interna- tional Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) and IAHS (Interna- tional Association of Hydrological Sciences) Water Quality Com- missions to organize a second International Workshop on pollu- tant behaviour in the vadose zone, hosted by the Institute of Soils and Water of the Agricultural Research Organization, Israel. In this workshop, taking place in June 1987, attention was focused on chemical, physico-chemical and microbial-mediated reactions of different contaminants in the vadose zone. This book contains selected works presented in the 1987 workshop by invited special- ists from various disciplines and countries.

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