This book offers a comprehensive review of the current environmental conditions and chemical
changes in Polish surface waters. Poland is situated in an area that was covered by glaciations
in the distant past. The subsequent periods of glacial advance and retreat produced a
continuous rejuvenation of the landscape and the discharge of surplus water from this area was
constantly transformed by morphological climatic and hydrological changes.Written by expert
contributors the book's respective chapters address the impact of current climatic conditions
on the functioning of surface water reservoirs in Poland while also exploring the country's
hydrographic and hydrological network and the trophic state of its rivers and lakes their
eutrophication and threats. Particular attention is paid to sources of pollution above all
the chemical pollution of water and sediments.Together with the companion book Polish River
Basins and Lakes - Part II: Biological Statusand Water Management it provides students
environmental chemists biologists geologists hydrologists and surface waters managers with
authoritative information on Poland's current environmental status.
