The Impacts of Agriculture on Water Quality
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water, Agriculture and Aquaculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2025 | Viewed by 22
Special Issue Editors
Interests: agricultural non-point source pollution; ecological treatment technology; farmland retreated water; aquaculture wastewater; livestock and poultry manure resource utili-zation; paddy-pond water circulation aquaculture; microplastics; antibiotics; antibi-otic-resistant genes; organic fertilizer
Interests: agricultural non-point source pollution; soil remediation; water treatment technolo-gies; heavy metals and microplastics; bio-based fertilizer formulations; biomass pre-treatment and utilization; adsorbents; functional nanomaterials; sustainable fertiliz-ers/water management; plant physiology/biochemistry
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Interests: soil health and quality; soil remediation; land cover crops; manure/organic fertilizer/poultry litter; soil and water conservation; irrigation; drainage; soil amendment; crop production
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue focuses on the impacts of agriculture on water quality. With the applications of some cultivating additions, such as pesticides, chemical fertilizers, livestock, and poultry manure, etc., residues of pesticides and weed killer has constructed a serious threat to the safety of the surrounding water environment. Nutrient agricultural runoff containing nitrogen and phosphorus can trigger algal blooms, some of which generate toxicants. Pollution also includes microbes such as antibiotic-resistant bacteria transferred to the environment from agriculture. With further economic development in the world, protecting freshwater and marine systems from water pollution generated by agriculture has been one challenge. This Special Issue will give particular attention to studies on the relationship between agricultural activity and water environment, the interception of nutrients in farmland runoff and the reduction/reasonable use of chemical fertilizers/pesticides, the new ecological restoration techniques of the polluted water bodies, etc. Thus, we would like to invite authors to submit their original research or review papers to this Special Issue in order to promote the development of agriculture and protect the water environment.
Dr. Xinyu Mao
Dr. Hiba Shaghaleh
Dr. Tingting Chang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- agricultural runoff
- non-point source pollution
- nitrogen and phosphorus
- livestock and poultry manure resource utili-zation
- ecological restoration
- antibiotic-resistant bacteria
- organic fertilizer
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