Browsing by Subject "Water pollution"

Antiflooding prevention, protection, strategic environmental planning of aquatic resources and water purification: The case of Thessalian basin, in Greece

Koutseris; Filintas, Ag; Dioudis, P. (2010)

In the E.U. following the old 5th Environmental Action Program (EAP) of 1994 and the new 6th EAP for the sustainable development in 2001, we confront the strategic management problem of aquatic resources at the regional ...

A critical review on arsenic removal from water using biochar-based sorbents: The significance of modification and redox reactions

Amen R., Bashir H., Bibi I., Shaheen S.M., Niazi N.K., Shahid M., Hussain M.M., Antoniadis V., Shakoor M.B., Al-Solaimani S.G., Wang H., Bundschuh J., Rinklebe J. (2020)

Biochar is considered to be the cost-effective, environmentally-friendly and sustainable sorbent that has an extraordinary potential to efficiently remove toxic elements, including arsenic (As) from water. Until now, no ...

Cryptosporidium in fish: Implications for aquaculture and beyond

Golomazou E., Malandrakis E.E., Panagiotaki P., Karanis P. (2021)

Aquaculture industries are expanding worldwide and control of Cryptosporidium is of great importance. Cryptosporidiosis is a serious waterborne/foodborne disease, responsible for infectious outbreaks globally. Current ...

Database design of a geo-environmental information system

Roumelis, G.; Loukopoulos, T.; Vassilakopoulos, M. (2014)

Environmental protection from productive investments becomes a major task for enterprises and constitutes a critical competitiveness factor. The region of Central Greece presents many serious and particular environmental ...

Environmental planning in Magnesia prefecture, Greece

Michailidou, K.; Samaras, P.; Christopoulou, O.; Beriatos, E.; Kungolos, A. (2003)

The environmental planning of Magnesia Prefecture is studied in this work, aiming at the assessment of the environmental quality and the determination of the most appropriate objectives and priorities, for the achievement ...

Facile synthesis of C3N4/NiIn2S4 heterostructure with novel solar steam evaporation efficiency and photocatalytic H2O2 production performance

Wang A., Liang H., Chen F., Tian X., Yin S., Jing S., Tsiakaras P. (2022)

Using solar energy to obtain valuable fresh water through interface evaporation is a promising environmentally friendly technology. However, the organic pollutants in wastewater may cause potential water safety hazards. ...

Health impacts due to particulate air pollution in Volos City, Greece

Moustris K.P., Proias G.T., Larissi I.K., Nastos P.T., Koukouletsos K.V., Paliatsos A.G. (2016)

There is great consensus among the scientific community that suspended particulate matter is considered as one of the most harmful pollutants, particularly the inhalable particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter less ...

Lca-based environmental performance of olive cultivation in northwestern greece: from rainfed to irrigated through conventional and smart crop management practices

Fotia K., Mehmeti A., Tsirogiannis I., Nanos G., Mamolos A.P., Malamos N., Barouchas P., Todorovic M. (2021)

Olive cultivation is expanding rapidly in the northwestern part of Greece, under both rainfed and irrigated practices. Irrigation can result in larger yields and economic returns, but trade-offs in the water–energy–pollution ...

Preparation and characterization of novel Niln2S4/UiO-66 photocatalysts for the efficient degradation of antibiotics in water

Wang A., Liang H., Chen F., Tian X., Jing S., Tsiakaras P. (2022)

Photocatalysis is considered an economical, environmentally friendly, and effective technology for removing pollutants. The construction of Z-Scheme heterojunctions has been identified as one of the feasible solutions ...

Reducing water shortage crisis through rainwater reuse: Lessons learned from ancient toward integrated technology

Okhravi S., Eslamian S., Dalezios N.R. (2019)

The quantity of freshwater available per person in the world has been proceeded to decrease due to a combination of factors, including population increase, water pollution, inadequate planning and management of transboundary ...

Regeneration of arsenic spent adsorbents by Fe/MgO nanoparticles

Simeonidis K., Martinez-Boubeta C., Rivera-Gil P., Ashraf S., Samaras T., Angelakeris M., Tresintsi S., Mitrakas M., Parak W.J., Monty C., Balcells L. (2017)

BACKGROUND: Over recent decades, there has been increasing global concern over public health impacts related to water pollution with arsenic. With the development of nanotechnology, nanomaterials are being proposed as ...

Remediation of Cd and Cu contaminated water and soil using novel nanomaterials derived from sugar beet processing- and clay brick factory-solid wastes

Lashen Z.M., Shams M.S., El-Sheshtawy H.S., Slaný M., Antoniadis V., Yang X., Sharma G., Rinklebe J., Shaheen S.M., Elmahdy S.M. (2022)

Producing nanomaterials from hazardous wastes for water and soil treatment is of great concern. Here, we produced and fully characterized two novel nanomaterials from sugar beet processing (SBR)- and brick factory-residuals ...

Root vegetables bioaccumulate microcystins-LR in a developmental stage-dependent manner under realistic exposure scenario: The case of carrot and radish

Levizou E., Papadimitriou T., Papavasileiou E., Papadimitriou N., Kormas K.A. (2020)

Cyanotoxins are secondary metabolites of the ubiquitous cyanobacteria and exert their toxicity to plants and humans. Human health can be impacted by cyanotoxin bioaccumulation in crops via irrigation from contaminated water ...

Spray irrigation with microcystins-rich water affects plant performance from the microscopic to the functional level and food safety of spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.)

Tsoumalakou E., Papadimitriou T., Berillis P., Kormas K.A., Levizou E. (2021)

Irrigation water coming from freshwater bodies that suffer toxic cyanobacterial blooms causes adverse effects on crop productivity and quality and raises concerns regarding food contamination and human exposure to toxins. ...