Water management and development: proceedings. Volume 1, Part 4

Conference · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1978

OSTI ID:5944684

Tollan, A; Hagerhall, B

Increased acid precipitation is the main cause of extensive losses of salmonid fish stocks and other fish populations in southern Scandinavia, northeastern United States, and southeastern Canada. In addition, airborne transport of sulfur compounds are a threat to forest ecosystems and productivity, and to human health. Extensive surveys conducted in Sweden and Norway have documented adverse effects of the transport of pollutants through the atmosphere, and research has indicated that the major source of acid precipitation in Scandinavia is the combustion of fossil fuels in the heavily industrialized parts of Europe. Highly acid precipitation in a central area of Europe as early as the 1960s had a pH of 3-4, and the area is growing steadily larger. All governments should reduce emissions of pollutants to the air. The governments of Norway and Sweden have prohibited use of heavy oil containing over 1% sulfur. World efforts to monitor and evaluate long-range transmissions of air pollutants across national frontiers must be intensified, and data collection should be integrated in the United Nation's global environmental monitoring system. The present policy in some countries of dispersing harmful pollutants by means of tall stacks is no longer acceptable. International cooperation in reducing air pollutant emissions is needed.

• OSTI ID: 5944684
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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