Removing organic pollutants, nutrients, and heavy metals from Lake Tai

Under the "SIGN – Clean Water from the Source to the Consumer" project, Chinese and German partners work on improving water quality of Lake Tai. This lake supplies millions of people with drinking water, but is strongly polluted with organic pollutants, nutrients, and heavy metals. Under the SIGN project, the Environmental Mineralogy and Environmental Systems Analysis Group of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) develops new monitoring technologies. Recently, the scientists went to China to take water samples.

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