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1 Department of Water Supply and Water Disposal, Moscow State University of Civil Engineering (National Research University), Moscow,
Russian Federation
2 Department of Physical and Chemical Principles of Combustion and Fire Suppression, Saint-Petersburg University of State Fire Service of EMERCOM of Russia, Saint-Petersburg,
Russian Federation
3 Department of Philosophy, Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University), Moscow,
Russian Federation
4 Department of Advanced Mathematics, Kuban State Agrarian University I. T. Trubilin, Krasnodar,
Russian Federation
Received: 11 October 2021 | Revised: 1 November 2021 | Accepted: 1 November 2021 | Published online: 1 November 2021
© 2021 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Abstract
This work aims to investigate the concentration indices of 14 pesticides in the major water bodies of the Southern Federal District of the Russian Federation. The study was conducted in 2019 using samples of bottom sediments and surface waters collected from three reservoirs (Krasnodar, Proletarian, and Veselovsky) and two rivers (Don and Sal). Concentrations of active pesticide substances were studied, and the results were benchmarked against 2018. In 2019, 14 active pesticide substances were detected in water and sediment samples from the three reservoirs under study. Maximum pesticide concentrations were observed in the spring of 2019 and autumn 2018. Total concentration indices in these time frames were similar, but autumn 2019 is 20 times lower than 2018 (0.7 versus 6.5, p ≤ 0.001). Total pesticide concentrations for rivers and reservoirs averaged about the same (0.15-0.80, p ≥ 0.05). There are different levels of pesticides in rivers and reservoirs. The detected pesticide concentrations did not exceed the maximum allowable concentrations, but the cumulative effect can have a harmful impact on hydrobionts in the future.
Keywords
Concentration
pesticides
pollution
reservoirs
rivers
the Southern Federal District
water bodies.
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