Yuliya Vystavna, International Atomic Energy Agency
Problem addressed:
Emerging pollutants pose a risk to the quality of drinking water - a key factor of well-being as recognized in the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
New approach:
Combining emerging pollutants with environmental isotopes to improve the understanding of emerging pollutants sources and behaviour in aquatic ecosystems.
Policy:
Coordinated Research Project “Improving understanding of nitrate sources in the connected river and groundwater systems through linking nitrate isotopes and contaminants of emerging concern” (2022-2025) which includes 14 countries with different environmental and socio-economic conditions.
Best practice guideline on integrating environmental isotopes and emerging pollutants to delineate anthropogenic pollution sources and evaluate pollution-related processes and the water
quality.
18 January 2023, 12:35 CET