Author(s): Anastasia Makri; Konstantinos Azis; Vassiliki Papaevangelou; Cate A. Bakalakou; Dionissis Latinopoulos; Ifigenia Kagalou; Spyridon Ntougias; Christos Akratos; Paraschos Melidis
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Abstract: In river water environments, concentrations of heavy metals (HM) are commonly at low range. This could be drastically changed by anthropogenic pressures, which includes industrial, agricultural and municipal sources (Grieshaber et al., 2018). Heavy metals are mobile and non-biodegradable, can be bio-accumulated and can cause harmful effects on animals and human health (Zhang et al., 2021; Xiao et al., 2021). Soil is the foundation of all agricultural activities. An intense agricultural activity belongs to the potential pathways of diffuse heavy metal transportation from soils to surface waters (Bur et al., 2009). According to Zhou et al. (2020) around 40% of the world’s lakes and rivers are polluted by heavy metals, deriving from anthropogenic sources. The upper concentration limits of heavy metals in water are set by regional and national authorities (Karaouzas et al., 2021). 3
Year: 2022