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Risks assessment of water pollution by pesticides at local scale (Pesteaux Project): study of polluting pressure
Noël, Stéphanie; Bah, Boubacar Billo
2009In Communications in Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences, 74 (1), p. 165-170
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Keywords :
Water pollution; pesticide; PESTEAUX project
Abstract :
[en] Pollution of water resources (surface waters and ground waters) by pesticide uses is one of the key point of the European policy with the imptementation of the Water Frame Work Directive (2000/60/EC) and the thematic Strategy on the Sustainable use of pesticides. According to this Legislation, the Member States must initiale measures to limit environmental and toxicologieal effects caused by pesticide uses. The Agricultural Research Centre of Wallonia (CRA-W) emphasized the need of a toot for spatial risk analysis and develops it within the framework of PESTEAUX project. The originality of the approach proposed by the CRA-W is to generate maps to identify the risk of pollution at locale scale (agricultural parcel). The risk will be assessed according to the study of different factors, grouped under 3 data's tayers: polluting pressure, vulnerability of the physical environment (soil) and meteorological data. This approach is directly based on the risk's definition which takes into account the polluting pressure, linked te the human activities, and the vulnerabitity of the soil, defined by factors of physical environment which characterize the water flow in the parcel. Moreover, meteorological data influence the intensity and likelihoad flow of water, and indirectly pesticide by leaching or runoff. The PESTEAUX's approach to study the pollution is based on the model "source-vector-target". The source is the polluting pressure, in other words, the pesticides which could reach the targets. The main vector is the water which vehicles the pesticide on and trough the soil until the target which are the surface waters or ground waters. ln this paper we introduce the factors contributing to the polluting pressure. These factors are linking to the human activities and more precisely, to the pesticide uses. The factors considered have an influence on pesticide's transport by water (in its solid state or in dissolved state by leaching, run-off, or erosion) but also on a set of process controlling pesticide behavior in the environment such as degradation, sorption, ....
Disciplines :
Agriculture & agronomy
Author, co-author :
Noël, Stéphanie;  Centre wallon de Recherche agronomiques (CRA-W)
Bah, Boubacar Billo ;  Centre wallon de Recherches agronomiques (CRA-W) > Agriculture et Milieu naturel > Unité Fertilité des sols et protection des eaux
Language :
English
Title :
Risks assessment of water pollution by pesticides at local scale (Pesteaux Project): study of polluting pressure
Publication date :
2009
Event name :
61st International Symposium On crop Protection
Event organizer :
Universiteit Gent, faculty of Bioscience Engineering
Event place :
Gent, Belgium
Event date :
May 19, 2009
Audience :
International
Journal title :
Communications in Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences
ISSN :
1379-1176
Publisher :
Universiteit Gent. Faculteit Landbouwkundige en Toegepaste Biologische Wetenschappen, Gent, Belgium
Volume :
74
Issue :
1
Pages :
165-170
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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