Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT
Volume 189, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-017-5956-9
Keywords
Pesticide contamination; Water; Suspended solids; Multivariate analysis
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- Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnologia (MINCYT)-Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnologica (ANCYT) Project [PICT2010-0891]
- Universidad Nacional de Entre Rios
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The Uruguay River is receptor of pollutants, such as pesticides, from agriculture activities along its course. The present study reports concentration levels of organochlorinate, organophosphorus, and other pesticides in water and suspended solids in nine sampling sites of the Uruguay River. Data analyses included principal component analysis (PCA) to assess differences between sampling sites contamination. Most of the tested pesticides were ubiquitous due to the widely use in the chemical control of pests implemented in the region. Detected concentrations of aldrin, chlordane, dieldrin, endrin, heptachlor epoxide, lindane, 4,4'-DDT, endosulfan, chlorpyrifos, diazinon, methyl-parathion, and malathion were found to be over regional and international concentration level guidelines, according to the European Union, the US Environmental Protection Agency, or the Argentinean Secretariat of Environment and Sustainable Development. For this reason, future studies in Uruguay River Basin are needed.
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