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    STUDIA GEOGRAPHIA - Issue no. 3 / 2009  
         
  Article:   WATER AND AIR POLLUTION IN COPSA MICA AND ITS IMPACT ON THE BIOTIC COMPONENT AND HUMAN HEALTH.

Authors:  RÉTI KINGA-OLGA, CORPADE ANA-MARIA, CS. HORVÁTH.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  

Water and Air Pollution in Copsa Mica ans its Negative Impact on the Biotic Component and Human Health. The pollution negative effects of the 80’s maximal industrialization period on the biotic component and on human health still represent an acute problem for the locality itself and for its neighbouring areas. Among the principal pollutants inducing major risks (46 and 131 times more than the maximum allowable values at lead and cadmium) for the living community we could mention: metallic bismuth, stibium, zinc ammonium sulphate, carbon black, stibium trisulphate, sulphure dioxide, sulphate acid, cadmium etc. The presence of these substances determined genetical mutations or extinctions to plants and animals, human affections as the chronic saturnism (acute lead intoxication), the skin cancer, problems on children development as anemia, growing-up and bone development difficulties and a generally reduced staturo-ponderal growth.

Keywords: Copsa Mica, pollution, negative impact, human health, heavy metals

 
         
     
         
         
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