Agriculture, hydrology, and water quality /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2002.
• Subjects: Agricultural pollution.; Water > Pollution.; Hydrology.; Water quality.; Plant Production.; Animal Husbandry and Production, (New March 2000); Water Resources.; Pollution and Degradation.; Animal Wastes.; Plant Wastes.; Industrial Wastes and Effluents.; Agriculture.; Heavy metals.; Manures.; Nitrogen.; Pesticides.; Phosphorus.; Pollutants.; Polluted water.; Sediment.; Water pollution.; Water resources.; Electronic books.
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• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 502 pages) : illustrations, charts, maps; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This book presents an interdisciplinary approach for agriculture, hydrology and water quality to work towards an improved understanding of the processes involved and impacts of agriculture on water. This consists 22 chapters divided into 3 sections: (1) agriculture as a potential source of water pollution viz., nitrogen, phosphorus, manures, pesticides and persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals, human enteric pathogens, sediment and nutrient balances; (2) hydrology as the transport of water pollution; and (3) impacts and case studies from around the world.