scholarly journals Review of "Anthropogenic Influence on the Rhine water temperatures" by Alex Zavarsky and Lars Duester

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Anthropogenic Influence ◽  
Rhine Water

Evaluation and Avoidance of False Alarm by Controlling Rhine Water with Continuously Working Biotests

1994 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Puzicha
Keyword(s):  
Warning System ◽  
Point Sources ◽  
Trophic Levels ◽  
River Rhine ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
River Test ◽  
Continuous Working ◽  
Range Of Variation ◽  
Contaminant Load ◽  
Rhine Water

Effluents from point sources (industries, communities) and diffuse inputs introduce pollutants into the water of the river Rhine and cause a basic contaminant load. The aim is to establish a biological warning system to detect increased toxicity in addition to the already existing chemical-physical monitoring system. To cover a wide range of biocides, continuous working biotests at different trophic levels (bacteria, algae, mussels, water fleas, fishes) have been developed and proved. These are checked out for sensitivity against toxicants, reaction time, validity of data and practical handling under field conditions at the river. Test-specific appropriate methods are found to differentiate between the normal range of variation and true alarm signals.

Reading a water menu: Bottled water and the cultivation of taste

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Biro
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Market Segmentation ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
Bottled Water ◽  
Water Market ◽  
Anthropogenic Influence ◽  
Social Character ◽  
The Social

The market for bottled water is growing and increasingly segmented. How do we explain not just the willingness to pay for a substance (water) that is almost free but also the increasing discernment in a drink generally considered tasteless? We argue that bottled water market segmentation is a leading edge of processes of water commodification, associated with the crisis of Fordism and rise of consumerist capitalism, where the assertion of status through commodity consumption is increasingly necessary. The extensive Ray’s & Stark water menu is analyzed to show how the taste for bottled waters is cultivated. In the menu, references to gustatory sensation are limited. Instead, the tastefulness of water inheres in the distance from anthropogenic influence, made visible through scientific (geological) discourses. The tension between the desire to consume unmediated nature and the scientific abstraction necessary to recognize it reveals the social character of the taste for bottled waters. The highly refined sense of taste that the water menu’s readers are presumed to have is a reflection of consumerist capitalism’s distinctive ways of reproducing socio-economic inequality and metabolizing non-human nature.

scholarly journals Anthropogenic influence on recent circulation‐driven Antarctic sea ice changes

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (23) ◽  
pp. 8429-8437 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Alexander Haumann ◽  
Dirk Notz ◽  
Hauke Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Sea Ice ◽  
Anthropogenic Influence ◽  
Antarctic Sea Ice

Total phosphorus records in coastal Antarctic sediments: Burial and evidence of anthropogenic influence on recent input

2021 ◽  
Vol 237 ◽  
pp. 104037
Author(s):  
Felipe S. Freitas ◽  
Rosalinda C. Montone ◽  
Eunice C. Machado ◽  
César C. Martins
Keyword(s):  
Total Phosphorus ◽  
Anthropogenic Influence

scholarly journals Physico-chemical variability and heavy metal pollution of surface sediment in a non-channeled section of Dilúvio Stream (Southern Brazil) and the influence of channeled section in sediment pollution

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Alexandre Sodrzeieski ◽  
Leonardo Capeleto de Andrade ◽  
Tales Tiecher ◽  
Flávio Anastácio de Oliveira Camargo
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Heavy Metal ◽  
Total Concentration ◽  
Mineralogical Composition ◽  
Sediment Pollution ◽  
Anthropogenic Influence ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Physico Chemical ◽  
Chemical Variability ◽  
The Impact

Dilúvio Stream flows through an area with a great population density in Porto Alegre, Southern Brazil. The anthropogenic influence in the surroundings impacted negatively the quality of the sediments of Dilúvio Stream and Lake Guaíba. This study evaluated the physico-chemical variability of surface sediments in a non-channeled section of Dilúvio Stream. Additionally, we compared the concentration of several heavy metals in this section with data from previous studies in the margins of Lake Guaíba near the outflow of Dilúvio Stream in order to evaluate the impact of urbanization on sediment pollution. The pH, bulk density, particle-size distribution, electrical conductivity, organic carbon, assimilable phosphorus, total nitrogen, mineralogical composition (X-ray diffractogram) and pseudo total concentration of several metals (Fe, Al, Ca, Mg, Na, K, Mn, Ba, Zn, V, As, Pb, Cu, Cr, Co, Ni, Cd, Mo, and Se) were evaluated. The results showed that the sediments in the non-channeled section of Dilúvio Stream are predominantly sandy, with heavy metal contents below the quality reference values. Quartz and feldspar predominated in all sites. The concentration of Zn, Pb, Cu, Cr, and Ni were lower than that observed in the margins of Lake Guaíba near the outflow of Dilúvio Stream, possibly due to pollution input throughout the channeled section. The Dilúvio Stream shows indications of an anthropogenic influence in the heavy metals concentration through the channeled area.

scholarly journals Assessment of plankton community and environmental conditions in São Sebastião Channel prior to the construction of a produced water outfall

1999 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sônia Maria Flores Gianesella ◽  
Miryam Bertha Burda Kutner ◽  
Flávia Marisa Prado Saldanha-Corrêa ◽  
Mayza Pompeu
Keyword(s):  
Produced Water ◽  
Plankton Community ◽  
Anthropogenic Influence ◽  
Oil And Grease ◽  
Entire Area ◽  
Sampling Points ◽  
Evenness Indices ◽  
Zooplankton Communities ◽  
Neighboring Area ◽  
High Diversity

Plankton community and hydrological conditions were assessed as a part of ao environmental diagnosis in São Sebastião Channel, before the building of a submarine outfall of produced water from the oil maritime terminal of PETR08RÁS. Samples were collected in twenty oceanographic stations located in the oil terminal neighboring area, during the springtime of 1991. Oissolved inorganic nutrients and chlorophyll-a concentrations observed indicate an oligo-mesotrophic environment. Phenols and sulfides were absent, 800 values, except for three sampling points, were characteristic of unpolluted environments, although oil and grease were found in half of the sampled stations. Phytoplankton and zooplankton communities presented high diversity and evenness indices for the entire area. Phytoplankton was dominated by phytoflagel1àtes and zooplankton was dominated by copepods, mostly Paracalanus quasimodo. Plankton community composition was similar to that from adjacent regions under low anthropogenic influence.

Monitoring the toxicity of organic compounds dissolved in Rhine water

1990 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dick Zwart ◽  
Ariejan Folkerts
Keyword(s):  
Organic Compounds ◽  
Rhine Water

scholarly journals HYDROBIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF PLANKTON COMMUNITIES OF MAKHACHKALA SEAPORT

2019 ◽  
pp. 12-18
Author(s):  
Magomed Magomedovich OSMANOV ◽  
Frangiz Shamilievna AMAEVA ◽  
Ayshat Abdulmajidovna ABDURAKHMANOVA
Keyword(s):  
Aquatic Organisms ◽  
Water Area ◽  
Acartia Tonsa ◽  
Anthropogenic Influence ◽  
The Caspian Sea ◽  
Spring Period ◽  
Brackish Water Species ◽  
Water Species ◽  
Plankton Communities ◽  
Planktonic Communities

The article presents data from spring hydrobiological studies in the Makhachkala l Seaport during the period of dredging. It is noted that plankton of the studied water area of the Caspian Sea is a typical community of the spring period, formed mainly by marine and brackish-water species of phytoplankton and zooplankton. Diatoms mainly dominate in phytoplankton, and Copepods in zooplankton, where the main dominant is the Azov-Black sea invader Acartia tonsa Dana,1843. The analysis of planktonic communities indicates a rather developed quantitative and qualitative community of aquatic organisms with a characteristic abundance of species inhabiting it in the spring, despite a significant anthropogenic influence. It is established that the ongoing dredging operations do not have a tangible effect on the productivity of planktonic organisms.

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