Water Resources from Romanian Upper Tisa Basin

Șerban, Gheorghe; Sabău, Daniel; Bătinaş, Răzvan; Brețcan, Petre; Ignat, E.; Nacu, Simion

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-22320-5_12

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“…The presence of bacteria, plankton, iron and aluminium hydroxide, sludge and colloidal matter causes high turbidity. Water with high turbidity can cause an epidemiological hazard if consumed because the suspended material can support germs [ 44 ]. If waters with high turbidity are consumed, it could cause health issues, such as intestinal diseases [ 45 , 46 ].…”

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Chemical Assessment of Drinking Water Quality and Associated Human Health Risk of Heavy Metals in Gutai Mountains, Romania

Dippong,

Resz

2024

Toxics

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Chemical data compiled from field and laboratory studies were analysed on drinking water sources from a mountain area (Gutai Mountains) in Romania. Six physico-chemical indicators, nine anions, and twenty-one metals were determined and analysed. The results of this study showed that waters are generally rich in NH4+ and NO2−, exceeding the recommended limit of 0.5 mg NH4+/L, while some waters are rich in As, Cd, Mn and Pb, but with concentrations below the limits concerning the use of waters with drinking purposes. The applied heavy metal pollution indices (scores: 0.56–47.9) indicate that more than 50% of samples are characterized by medium pollution degrees. Based on the results obtained, it was determined that geological and human activities were influential in enriching the studied waters with the chemicals considered. Emphasizing this aspect related to pollution sources and the importance of a clean chemical status that must characterize waters used for drinking purposes, a human health risk assessment for heavy metals was implemented. The results indicated that even though the studied waters are rich in heavy metals, scores related to the risk assessment of heavy metals indicated a lack of non-carcinogenic risks for As, Mn, Cd and Cu. Nevertheless, this study and the results obtained are significant at national and international levels by offering a perspective on determining the potential pollution and associated human health risks at heavy metals in drinking water sources from a mountain area.

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Chemical Assessment of Drinking Water Quality and Associated Human Health Risk of Heavy Metals in Gutai Mountains, Romania

Dippong,

Resz

2024

Toxics

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“…The altitude correlated with the average amount of precipitation highlights the laws of spatial rainfall distribution (Cocuț, 2008;Șerban et al, 2020). Air masses circulation is predominantly from NW to SE, which determines the peculiar spatial distribution of rainfall.…”

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Correlation between precipitation and orography - key element of the Spatial Decision Support System for Prevention and Management of Floods in the Firiza Basin (Northwest Romanian Carpathians)

Sabău¹,

Șerban²,

Tudose³

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Research on the influence of relief on precipitation has been identified in many studies conducted locally, regionally or globally. However, the research on the area analyzed in the present paper is comparatively lacking. The surrounding mountain area we refer to is represented by the Someș and the Tisa watersheds. The present study focuses on analyzing the influence of the relief, i.e. of the altitude, slope orientation relative to the position of the Sun and the movement of air mass as a factor on precipitation and rainfall gradient. For that, datasets of daily precipitation recorded at 62 rainfall stations were used, as follows: 36 rainfall stations in Maramureş County, 19 rainfall stations in Satu Mare County, and 7 rainfall stations in Bistrița-Năsăud County. Precipitation data from rainfall stations located in the neighborhood of the study area were used in order to determine the influence of relief on frontal precipitation. The second purpose of the research was to determine if there is a correlation between precipitation and altitude. To this end, ArcGIS and Microsoft Office software were used. The results seem to confirm the major influence of the relief over the dynamic convection imposed to the air masses on ascending slopes, various average vertical precipitation gradients and differentiated distribution of rainfall. The present analysis and its results will highly contribute as an input element in a Spatial Decision Support System for Prevention and Management of Floods in Firiza Basin (North-Western Carpathians).

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“…About 55% of the disasters that occurred in Romania in 1990–2016 were linked to flood hazards (Zaharia and Ioana-Toroimac 2017 ), and it was estimated that 41 flood events occurred in 1985–2019, with 7 of them characterized as large scale events (Liu et al 2022 ). In the study area, floods became more frequent in the last centuries and more impactful in the last decades (Șerban and Gălie 2006 ). Against this background, local Danubian communities perceive floods as uncontrollable, fear-inducing events, capable of changing lives, but beyond one’s locus of control (Armaş and Avram 2009 ; Armaş et al 2015 ).…”

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Exploring the links between flood events and the COVID-19 infection cases in Romania in the new multi-hazard-prone era

Albulescu

2023

Nat Hazards

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The occurrence of flood events amid the COVID-19 pandemic represents a prominent part of the emerging multi-hazard landscape, as floods are one of the most frequent and destructive natural hazards. This spatial and temporal overlap of hydrological and epidemiological hazards translates into compounded negative effects, causing a shift in the hazard management paradigm, in which hazard interaction takes centre stage. This paper calls into question whether the river flood events that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic in Romania and the way that they were managed had an impact on the infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus at county scale. To this end, hazard management data concerning the flood events that were severe enough to impose the evacuation of the population were corroborated with COVID-19 confirmed cases data. A definite link between the flood events and the dynamics of COVID-19 cases registered in the selected counties is difficult to identify, but the analysis shows that all flood events were followed by various size increases in the COVID-19 confirmed cases at the end of the incubation time range. The findings are critically interpreted by providing viral load and social-related contexts, allowing a proper understanding of the interactions between concurrent hazards.

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Water Resources from Romanian Upper Tisa Basin

Cited by 5 publications

References 29 publications

Chemical Assessment of Drinking Water Quality and Associated Human Health Risk of Heavy Metals in Gutai Mountains, Romania

Chemical Assessment of Drinking Water Quality and Associated Human Health Risk of Heavy Metals in Gutai Mountains, Romania

Correlation between precipitation and orography - key element of the Spatial Decision Support System for Prevention and Management of Floods in the Firiza Basin (Northwest Romanian Carpathians)

Exploring the links between flood events and the COVID-19 infection cases in Romania in the new multi-hazard-prone era

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