The Environmental Impact of Danube’s Pollution with Heavy Metals

Abstract

Nowadays the pollution is a stringent and critical problem that imposes serious measures to be taken into account. Water is one of the most important medium factors that facilitate the pollutants transport with serious consequences on the environment. There are many significant sources of water pollution which can affect the human health and may damage seriously the fauna and flora. The paper asserts the main sources of Danube's pollution with heavy metals and proposes some solutions in decreasing the amount of these pollutant elements. The area of study that offered the data in this paper was the SomovaParcheş aquatic complex, considered to be representative from the pollutant elements point of view. This area is located between Tulcea and Isaccea, in the pre-deltaic area of Danube Delta Biosphere reservation. Water is an medium factor, compulsory and crucial for everyday life, being the most outspread element on Earth. In nowadays situation, Terra finds itself in a critical period of its life from the pollution point of view and from the struggle for environmental protection point of view.