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RESEARCH ADVANCES IN IDENTIFYING NITRATE POLLUTION SOURCES OF WATER ENVIRONMENT BY USING STABLE ISOTOPES

ZHANG Qian-qian1, MIAO Li-ping2, SUN Ji-chao1, LIU Jing-tao1   

  1. 1. Institute of Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Science, Shijiazhuang 050061, China;
    2. Agriculture Regional Planning Office of Hebei Province, Shijiazhuang 050000, China
  • Received:2014-02-26 Revised:2014-08-16 Online:2015-05-20

Abstract: Nitrate (NO3-) contamination of surface water and ground water is an environmental problem in many regions across the world. Nowadays, with rapid industrialization, economic and population growth and intensive human activities (such as the discharge of industrial and domestic sewage, increased use of N-containing organic and inorganic fertilizers, animal manure, leakage of fossil fuels, etc.), the concentration of nitrate has raised increasingly and posed a serious threat to water environment, thereby causing the widespread concern of hydrological ecologists. Increased nitrate concentration in the water body has a serious impact on human health and environments. In order to safeguard drinking water supplies and control contamination effectively, it is of great importance to effectively identify the nitrate pollution sources of water body. Nitrate pollution originates from multiple sources via different pathways as point or diffuse sources: mineral nitrogen fertilizers and animal manure in agriculture, domestic or industrial nitrogen-bearing wastewater, atmospheric deposition, mineralization of soil organic nitrogen and biological nitrogen fixation. The traditional methods to identify the nitrate pollution sources are by investigating land use types of study area and combining the characteristics of local water chemistry, however, the results are relatively rough. In recent years, stable nitrogen (δ15N) and oxygen (δ18O) isotope data of NO3- have been frequently used to identify NO3- sources in water environment, because the isotopic composition of N and O in NO3- is generally different among various NO3- sources such as atmospheric N2, soil, chemical fertilizers, and sewage and manure. Nevertheless, the stable isotope technology also has limitations because of the multiple NO3- sources and isotope fractionation caused by N-transformation processes. This review systematically summarizes the typical δ15N and δ18O-NO3- ranges of known NO3- sources, introduced the multiple isotope technology combined to identify NO3- sources in water environment, and presents mixing models and future development directions to quantify the contributions of different NO3- sources. Based on the previous researches about the application of stable isotope methods, we suggest that in the future it is important to combine multiple isotope technology to identify NO3- sources in water environment. In addition, future research hotspot will be quantification of the contribution of different sources of NO3- by using stable isotopes simultaneously, in combination with mathematical models.

Key words: nitrate, pollution source, stable isotope, source apportionment

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