Neil D. Graham

TL;DR: The regional scale pollution history inferred from the three large and deep perialpine lakes points out at the pollution of water systems by heavy metals during the last two centuries due to the discharge of industrial effluents.

TL;DR: The contamination of sediments by untreated or partially treated effluent water can affect the quality of ecosystem, and the reduction of contaminants from the source is recommended for further improvement of water quality.

TL;DR: The results show that the microbial activities response to natural or human-induced changing limnological conditions constitutes a threat to the security of water resources, which in turn poses concerns for the world's freshwater resources in the context of global warming and the degradation of water quality.

TL;DR: Investigating the sediment transport dynamics, using sediment traps and radionuclide tracers, and ascertaining how local bottom-boundary hydrodynamic conditions influence these dynamics suggested that particle-bound contaminants are likely to remain within Vidy Bay.

TL;DR: In this article, 14 sediment cores were retrieved in the vicinity of the wastewater treatment plant effluent and measured the concentrations of total mercury and monomethylmercury in overlying and pore waters.