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Environmental Quality of Groundwater in Contaminated Areas—Challenges in Eastern Baltic Region

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Water Resources Quality and Management in Baltic Sea Countries

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The lack of water in the future will force society to find more sophisticated solutions for treatment and improvement of groundwater wherever it comes from. Contamination of soil and groundwater is a legacy of modern society, prevention of contaminants spread and secondary water reuse options shall be considered. The aim of the book chapter is to give oversight view on problems and challenges linked to groundwater quality in Eastern Baltic region whilst through case studies explaining the practical problems with groundwater monitoring, remediation and overall environmental quality analysis. The reader will get introduced with case studies in industry levels as credibility of scientific fundamentals is higher when practical solutions are shown. Eastern Baltic countries experience cover contamination problems that are mainly of historic origin due to former Soviet military and industrial policy implementation through decades. Short summaries for each case study are given and main conclusions provided in form of recommendations at the very end of the chapter.

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Acknowldgements

The case study compilation and comprehensive analysis was supported by Baltic Beach Wrack—Conversion of a Nuisance To a Resource and Asset (CONTRA), BAPR “Baltic Phytoremediation” as well as RBR (Reviving Baltic Resilience) Interreg-V-A project, grant No. STHB 02.02.00-22-0092/16 of EU South Baltic Programme 2014–2020. Great thanks to Swedish Institute LASUWAMA project.

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  1. Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Linnaeus University, 391 82, Kalmar, Sweden

    Juris Burlakovs, William Hogland & Yahya Jani

  2. Department of Water Management, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 5, 51014, Tartu, Estonia

    Juris Burlakovs, Mait Kriipsalu & Toomas Tamm

  3. Department of Environmental Science, University of Latvia, Raina Blvd. 19, Riga, 1586, Latvia

    Zane Vincevica-Gaile, Mait Kriipsalu, Maris Klavins & Janis Bikse

  4. Waste Laboratory-University of Muhammadiyah Malang, Jl. Raya Tlogomas No. 246, Malang, 65114, Indonesia

    Roy Hendroko Setyobudi

  5. State Scientific Institution “All-Russian Research Institute of Phytopathology”, Russian Agricultural Academy” (ARRIP), Bolshie Vyazemy, Odintsovo, Moscow, 143050, Russia

    Vasiliy Rud

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Burlakovs, J. et al. (2020). Environmental Quality of Groundwater in Contaminated Areas—Challenges in Eastern Baltic Region. In: Negm, A., Zelenakova, M., Kubiak-Wójcicka, K. (eds) Water Resources Quality and Management in Baltic Sea Countries. Springer Water. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39701-2_4

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