A review of the current environmental status and human health implications of one of the most polluted rivers of Mexico: The Atoyac River, Puebla.
Agrochemicals
Heavy metals
Microbiological pollution
Microplastics
Pharmaceuticals
Urban river
Journal
The Science of the total environment
ISSN: 1879-1026
Titre abrégé: Sci Total Environ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0330500
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
15 Aug 2021
15 Aug 2021
Historique:
received:
03
02
2021
revised:
18
03
2021
accepted:
20
03
2021
pubmed:
12
4
2021
medline:
29
5
2021
entrez:
11
4
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
For more than 4 decades, the Atoyac River in central Mexico has been subjected to anthropogenic stresses driven by the urban and industrial wastewater discharges, as well as leachates coming from intensive peri-urban agricultural practices. This review provides an overview of the levels of organic, inorganic and microbiological contaminants found during the past 10 years in waters and bed sediments of the Atoyac system, and the implication of this pollution over the human health. Overall, the Atoyac waters present high loads of nutrients, BOD
Identifiants
pubmed: 33839675
pii: S0048-9697(21)01856-8
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146788
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Metals, Heavy
0
Plastics
0
Water Pollutants, Chemical
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
146788Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.