Monica Garnier

Italian National Research Council | CNR · Institute of Water Research IRSA

Flood events, whose number and intensity are predicted to increase in the Mediterranean region, are difficult to monitor. This causes the number of observations of suspended sediment and total phosphorus concentration (|SS| and |TP|, respectively) during their occurrence to be still scarce. Non-perennial or temporary water bodies, which react more...

Flood events, whose number and intensity are predicted to increase in the Mediterranean region, are difficult to monitor. This causes the number of observations of suspended sediment and total phosphorus concentration (|SS| and |TP| respectively) during their occurrence to be still scarce. Non-perennial or temporary water bodies, which react more p...

One of the consequences of the generally agreed rise of global temperatures, furtherly exacerbated by the growth of water demand caused by the needs of a growing population, is an increase of areas with water stress. This will imply and in part is already implying, an always greater imbalance between water (and in particular drinking water) demand...

The purpose of the study is to assess the sustainability of the current water management practice of thermal water usage for bathing. The methodological approach is material flow analysis since it allows to achieve results without regular or online measurements. The current river base management plan recorded the quality status of certain reaches o...

There is general agreement among scientists that global temperatures are rising and will continue to increase in the future. It is also agreed that human activities are the most important causes of these climatic variations, and that water resources are already suffering and will continue to be greatly impaired as a consequence of these changes. In...

Water pollution from point sources has been considerably reduced over the last few decades. Nevertheless, some water quality problems remain, which can be attributed to non-point pollution sources, and in particular to agriculture. In this paper the results of a study intended to assess the consequences, in terms of NO3 water pollution, of growing...

The need to support the food requirement of an always growing population, caused agriculture to become more and more intensive. This, in turn, caused an always greater use of agrochemicals that are, in many cases, responsible for surface and groundwater pollution. The problems of groundwater pollution from agricultural nitrates are dealt with, in t...

Water pollution from point sources has been reduced throughout Europe and in particular in Italy thanks to the improvement of the relative depuration technologies. Nevertheless, water quality problems remained and were attributed to non point pollution sources, and in particular to agriculture.

In recent years, improvements in point-source depuration technologies have highlighted the problems regarding agricultural nonpoint (diffuse) sources, and this issue has become highly relevant from the environmental point of view. The considerable extension of the areas responsible for this kind of pollution, together with the scarcity of funds ava...

To help local regulators mitigate non-point source agricultural pollution and implement environment-friendly agricultural practices, a comparison between different existing or simulated best management practices (BMPs) has been carried out within a pluridisciplinary project called AgriBMPWater (FP5 founded). The project has been imagined and built...

Pour élaborer des programmes de restauration de la qualité de l`eau tels que prévus par la Directive cadre européenne sur l`eau, les décideurs locaux sont amenés à promouvoir des modifications de pratiques agricoles, souvent prédéfinies par des techniciens. La question qui se pose est de choisir les modifications les mieux adaptées aux problématiqu...

AgriBMPWater is a european research project of the 5th RTD Framework program (key action : Sustainable Mnagement and Quality of Water). The third meeting of this project took place in Italy (Bari) for 3 days (January, 23st to 25th 2002) with all the involved partners.

AgriBMPWater is an European research project of the 5th RTD Framework program (key action : Sustainable Mnagement and Quality of Water). The fourth meeting of this project took place in Finland (Suitia) for 3 days (September, 11th to 13th 2002) with all the involved partners.

AgriBMPWater is an european research project of the 5th RTD Framework program (key action : Sustainable Mnagement and Quality of Water). The second meeting of this project took place at ENGREF (French Institute of Forestry, Agricultural and Environmental Engineering) in Paris 14ème for 3 days (May, 30th 2001- June, 1st 2001) with all the involved p...

AgriBMPWater is a european research project of the 5th RTD Framework program. The launching meeting of this project took place at the Cemagref of Rennes during 5 days (September 5-9, 2000) with all the involved partners This report presents the conclusions of the main discussed topics : the research watersheds, the working organisation for each wor...

In modern intensive animal farming the disposal of a large amount or waste is of great concern, as, if not properly performed, it can cause the pollution of water, mainly because of the high content of nitrate and phosphate. This paper presents the results of a study intended to assess the environmental sustainability of animal waste disposal on ag...

In modern intensive animal farming the disposal of a large amount of waste represents a great concern. It is commonly accepted that the utilization of this waste as a fertilizer on agricultural soil has to be preferred to a treatment process that is extremely expensive and involves problems of final sludge disposal. Both solid and liquid animal was...

The integration of GIS with a management model is used to assess the carrying capacity of animal waste land disposal in a study area (Val di Chiana, Italy). Landscape units, which represent areas distinguished by homogeneous land-use patterns and geomorphological characteristics, have been located in the area. Data from the model simulations have b...

The critical role of Cl- transepithelial transport in eliciting a normal fluid secretion or absorption in various epithelia is strongly suggested from clinical and pathological studies. Modifications of epithelial function caused from bacterial toxins or genetically determined, as in cystic fibrosis, appear to be specifically dependent on some alte...