THE ACTUAL DIMENSIONS OF THEWATER POLLUTION WITH NITRATES IN RURAL AREA OF BACAU COUNTY
Abstract:
Nitrates determination in the drinking water represent the first stage in the risk assessment for
health. These evaluations of the quality of the water are a permanent concerning for specialists and the
present paper refers to two distinct stages: until 1997, as a result of current actions in teritory and after
this date, as investigations of water incriminated to produce acute intoxications in infants. Retrospective
data informations from 1983-1997 reveal decreasing frequences of water samples with normal
concentration of nitrates and helped to draw a map of areas with high risk from this point of view. More
recently investigations show improper situations of quantitative water supplies, improper conditions of
emplacement, protection or maintain the fountains and also chemical contamination with nitrates in
over 86% of cases. Very often the same rural areas have a high risk. The paper recommends some
actions as descriptive and analytic epidemiological studies concerning the effects of chronic use of
contaminated water by vulnerable segments of population.
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