Groundwater nitrate pollution risk assessment based on the potential impact of land use, nitrogen balance, and vulnerability.

ABSTRACT: The predicting groundwater nitrate pollution risk, especially in terms of changes in fertilizing, has not been fully investigated so far. In particular, there is no comprehensive method to assess this risk in areas of different land use type, and not only in agricultural areas. The aim of this study was to develop a novel multicriteria methodology for groundwater nitrate pollution risk assessment, which meets these issues. A further aim was to determine how much this risk would change if the amount of organic and synthetic fertilization was reduced. An assumption was that groundwater pollution risk is a combination of the potential adverse impacts of land use, fertilization, and intrinsic groundwater vulnerability to pollution. The impact of fertilization was holistically evaluated by bala

SUBMITTER: Duda R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10724313 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature