@book{JRC34257,
	editor = {},
	address = {Wien (Austria)},
	year = {2006},
	author = {Taylor P and Berglund M and Accoe F and Geypens B and Widory D and Boeckx P},
	isbn = {},
	abstract = {For more than a half-century, isotopic techniques have been widely used to provide
		insight in hydrological problems. Isotopic measurements have proved to be able to
		date the age of groundwater, to clarify the flows of aquifers, to understand salination
		processes, biogeochemical processes occurring in groundwater systems, the
		impact of urban/agricultural contamination on groundwater. This knowledge has
		largely remained imbedded in scientific literature and has not fully been used to
		strive towards better environmental management.
		This talk will, with the examples of NO3 and VOC pollution in groundwater, review
		the prospects offered by these techniques, explain why they are not used fully and
		particularly explore the possibilities to make them available to those that are dealing
		with the management of the quality of groundwater.
		Nitrate (NO3), naturally present at moderate concentrations in groundwater (around
		10 mg L-1), is often greatly enriched by anthropogenic activities that involve nitrogenous
		compounds (e.g., the spreading of mineral fertilizers) and by-products of organic
		compounds from agriculture, septic systems, and animal manure. In spite of
		increasing efforts at the national and European (EC Directive 91/976/EEC) levels to
		reduce NO3 input from intensive agriculture, it is still one of the world’s major
		ground- and surface water contaminants.
		
		
		
		},
	title = {Use of Isotopes for Tracing Pollution Sources in Groundwater (Characterisation)},
	url = {},
	volume = {},
	number = {},
	journal = {},
	pages = {83-87},
	issn = {},
	publisher = {Umweltbundesamt},
	doi = {}
}