Occurrence and distribution of organic trace substances in waters from the Three Gorges Reservoir, China

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 7124-7139

  Wolf, Anja ^a,b   Bergmann, Axel ^a   Wilken, Rolf Dieter ^a   Gao, Xu ^c   Bi, Yonghong ^d   Chen, Hao ^e   Schüth, Christoph ^a,b  

^a IWW WATER CENTRE   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^e CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Drinking water; Organic pollutants; Three Gorges; Water quality; Yangtze

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC COMPOUND; PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

CLOPYRALID; DISINFECTION; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; EUROPEAN UNION; PAH; POLLUTANT; STANDARDIZATION; SURFACE WATER; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; DANGEROUS GOODS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; RIVER; WATER POLLUTANT;

CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CHINA; THREE GORGES RESERVOIR; YANGTZE BASIN;

EID: 84884701540     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-013-1929-x     Document Type: Article

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