Causes and Effects of Water Pollution in Romania

Breaban, Iuliana Gabriela; Breaban, Ana Ioana

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-22320-5_3

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“…In the past, the overutilization of natural resources, pollutants, and the lack of legal framework implementation have led to water pollution in different areas of the world. One such region where different improvements have been implemented and different projects are running is that of Timis County, in Romania [9,10]. Here, specific European Union laws are being implemented, which is why water pollution has begun to be addressed by several approaches.…”

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Low-Cost Internet-of-Things Water-Quality Monitoring System for Rural Areas

Bogdan

Paliuc

Crişan-Vida

et al. 2023

Sensors

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Water is a vital source for life and natural environments. This is the reason why water sources should be constantly monitored in order to detect any pollutants that might jeopardize the quality of water. This paper presents a low-cost internet-of-things system that is capable of measuring and reporting the quality of different water sources. It comprises the following components: Arduino UNO board, Bluetooth module BT04, temperature sensor DS18B20, pH sensor—SEN0161, TDS sensor—SEN0244, turbidity sensor—SKU SEN0189. The system will be controlled and managed from a mobile application, which will monitor the actual status of water sources. We propose to monitor and evaluate the quality of water from five different water sources in a rural settlement. The results show that most of the water sources we have monitored are proper for consumption, with a single exception where the TDS values are not within proper limits, as they outperform the maximum accepted value of 500 ppm.

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confidence: 99%

Low-Cost Internet-of-Things Water-Quality Monitoring System for Rural Areas

Bogdan

Paliuc

Crişan-Vida

et al. 2023

Sensors

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“…Water pollution is one of the most important environmental problems faced by water managers [1][2][3]. The problem is particularly evident in large river basins that are international in nature [4][5][6]. Establishing a common environmental policy for the management and protection of water resources requires joint action by all countries across a river basin [7][8][9][10].…”

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Romanian Danube River Hydrocarbon Pollution in 2011–2021

Radu

Mănoiu

Kubiak-Wójcicka

et al. 2022

Water

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This review paper aims to analyze studies conducted over recent years (2011–2021) on hydrocarbon pollution in the Danube’s Romanian sector. This involves looking at three main issues: Space-related Romanian Danube hydrocarbon pollution; the nature of samples and the types of tests used for hydrocarbon authentication; hydrocarbon effects on bioindicators and fish cell lines. The papers extracted for this review were selected from three scientific article platforms: Web of Science, Science Direct, and Google Scholar, by using keywords, a specific search protocol and various selection filters. The main results of the present analysis are the following: the highest levels of hydrocarbon contamination in suspended particulate matter and sediments were found in the sector Iron Gates-Călărași (2013), and the main pollution sources were industry, navigation and wastewater discharges; sediment and biological samples accumulate higher concentrations of hydrocarbons than water samples, and are a good indicator for these pollutants’ presence; the most widely used bioindicators are aquatic worms, mollusks, crustaceans, the wild common bleak, and, in the laboratory, fish cells; various methods are used in order to confirm hydrocarbon presence and/or their effects on biota: fluorescence, comet assay technique, micronucleus test, complementary passive samplers, in vitro bioassays, fugacity-based calculation model, sensors, oil spill modeling.

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