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Assessment of the environmental significance of nutrients and heavy metal pollution in the river network of Serbia

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2016
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Dević, Gordana
Sakan, Sanja
Đorđević, Dragana
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Abstract
In this paper, the data for ten water quality variables collected during 2009 at 75 monitoring sites along the river network of Serbia are considered. The results are alarming because 48 % of the studied sites were contaminated by Ni, Mn, Pb, As, and nutrients, which are key factors impairing the water quality of the rivers in Serbia. Special attention should be paid to Zn and Cu, listed in the priority toxic pollutants of US EPA for aquatic life protection. The employed Q-model cluster analysis grouped the data into three major pollution zones (low, moderate, and high). Most sites classified as "low pollution zones" (LP) were in the main rivers, whereas those classified as "moderate and high pollution zones" (MP and HP, respectively) were in the large and small tributaries/hydro-system. Principal component analysis/factor analysis (PCA/FA) showed that the dissolved metals and nutrients in the Serbian rivers varied depending on the river, the heterogeneity of the anthropogenic activiti...es in the basins (influenced primarily by industrial wastewater, agricultural activities, and urban runoff pollution), and natural environmental variability, such as geological characteristics. In LP dominated non-point source pollution, such as agricultural and urban runoff, whereas mixed source pollution dominated in the MP and HP zones. These results provide information to be used for developing better pollution control strategies for the river network of Serbia.

Keywords:
River network of Serbia / Nutrients / Heavy metal pollution / Chemometric techniques / Water quality
Source:
Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2016, 23, 1, 282-297
Publisher:
  • Springer Heidelberg, Heidelberg
Projects:
  • The study of physicochemical and biochemical processes in living environment that have impacts on pollution and the investigation of possibilities for minimizing the consequences (RS-172001)
  • Studying climate change and its influence on environment: impacts, adaptation and mitigation (RS-43007)

DOI: 10.1007/s11356-015-5808-5

ISSN: 0944-1344

PubMed: 26593728

WoS: 000368199300027

Scopus: 2-s2.0-84954378750
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http://cer.ihtm.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1976
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