Water Quality Criteria

In the project "Water Quality Criteria" we developed substance specific water quality criteria for different classes of pesticides. The criteria shall be incorporated in the revised Federal Law on the Protection of Waters. Additionally, monitoring schemes were proposed to help authorities developing surveying water quality despite spatial and temporal concentration fluctuations.

Contractor

FOEN

Status

terminated

Publications

Chèvre, N., Loepfe, C., Fenner, K., Singer, H., Escher, B. I., and Stamm, C. (2006a). Pesticide dans les eaux superficielles de Suisse. Critères de qualité basés sur les effets des substances. gwa, 529 - 539.

Chèvre, N., Loepfe, C., Fenner, K., Singer, H., Escher, B. I., and Stamm, C. (2006b). Pestizide in Schweizer Oberflächengewässer. Wirkungsbasierte Qualitätskriterien. gwa, 297 - 307.

Chèvre, N., Loepfe, C., Singer, H., Stamm, C., Fenner, K., and Escher, B. I. (2006c). Including mixtures in the determination of water quality criteria for herbicides in surface water. Environmental Science and Technology 40, 426 - 435.

Chèvre, N., Singer, H., Müller, S., and Müller, E. (2003). Risikobeurteilung von Pestiziden in Schweizer Oberflächengewässern. gwa 12/2003, 906 - 917.

Stamm, C., Siber, R., Chèvre, N., Fenner, K., and Singer, H. (2006). Monitoring von Pestizidbelastungen in Schweizer Oberflächengewässer. gwa, 629 - 636.