Abstract
Anthropogenic effects on aquatic resources in the US and USSR are briefly discussed as a background for the efforts undertaken by participants in Project 02.02–13, The Effect of Pollutants on Aquatic Organisms and Ecosystems: Development of Water Quality Criteria, under the US-USSR Joint Agreement on Environmental Protection. The objectives of this project are to jointly identify pollutants of mutual concern, to exchange information and methodologies, to assess effects of the pollutants on aquatic organisms and ecosystems, and to recommend appropriate water quality criteria. Investigations in progress have focused on toxicity of ammonia in different kinds of receiving systems, effects of organophosphate insecticides, degradation of pollutants by microorganisms, and development of behavioral methods for assessing effects of pollutants on aquatic organisms. Since 1975, the Project has sponsored five joint symposia and has produced nearly 100 scientific publicaitons.
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