Pollution of Water Resources from Agricultural Fields and Its Control - Practices of Irrigation and On-farm Water Management - page 267

- NLEAP
- SOIL
- SOILN
- SWMS_2D
- DRAINMOD-N
- LEACHN
- MACRO
- HYDRUS-2D (two-dimensional water and solute transport model)
- IRRSCH (irrigation scheduling model)
- Opus (transport of nonpoint source pollution)
Relevant Journals
- Water, Air and Soil Pollution - An International Journal of Environmental
Pollution
- Paddy and Water Environment
- Journal of Contaminant Hydrology
- Water Quality and Ecosystem Modeling
- Environmental Monitoring and Management
- Ecosystem, Ecotoxicology, Environmental Management, Environmental
Monitoring and Assessment
- Vedos Zone Hydrology
- Water Quality, Exposure and Health
- Journal of Hydrology (Amsterdam)
- Water Resources Research
- Agricultural Water Management
- Agronomy Journal
- Irrigation Science
Questions
(1) Describe in brief the sources of pollution from agricultural field.
(2) Write a short note on the following:
Pollutant, pollution, persistent pollutants, Maximum permissible limit
(3) Explain the factors influencing solute leaching from crop field.
(4) Explain the way by which the nitrate and/or pesticides pollute water and
soil.
(5) What are the impacts of agricultural pollutants on water resource and the
ecosystem?
(6) Describe the mechanisms/pathway of solute transport thorough soil.
(7) Explain in brief, the basic solute transport processes.