Pesticides in Stream Sediment and Aquatic Biota
Subtitle: Distribution, Trends, and Governing Factors (Pesticides in the Hydrologic System, V. 4)
Publisher: CRC
Published: December 28, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1035
ISBN-13: 9781566704694
Subjects: Environmental monitoring; Hydrology (freshwater); Insecticides & pesticides; Pollution & threats to the environment; Agriculture - General; United States; Organochlorine compounds; Water Pollution; Pesticides; Technology; Environmental Studies; Science/Mathematics; Earth Sciences - Hydrology; Environmental Engineering & Technology; Environmental Science; Technology / Agriculture & Animal Husbandry; Water; Environmental aspects; Pollution
First sentence: About 1 billion pounds of pesticides currently are used each year in the United States to control many different types of weeds, insects, and other pests in a wide variety of agricultural and nonagricultural applications.