**Meet the editor**

Professor Dr. Mohamed Nageeb Rashed is professor of environmental and analytical chemistry and former head of chemistry department and vice-dean for community service and environmental affairs at Faculty of Science, Aswan University, Egypt. His scientific interests include researches in: monitoring toxic metals in air, soil, plants and water; Relationships between heavy

metals and human diseases; Biomarkers and bioindicators for water pollution; Environmental chemistry of lakes, rivers and wells water; Adsorption and photocatalytic degradation of organic and inorganic pollutants. He supervised several M.Sc. and Ph.D. thesis in the field of analytical and environmental chemistry, and published 70 scientific papers in international journals and 20 conferences at 16 courtiers worldwide. He acts as a consultant of environmental science and environmental health for NGOs. He organized a session "Water Pollution and Control in Developing Countries" In: 3ed World Water Forum, Kyoto, Japan, 16-24 March 2003. Prof. Rashed received the national award in environmental researches from the Egyptian Academy of Science and Technology2001. Prof. Rashed joined as editor and editorial board member in seven international journals. He received his Ph.D. in environmental analytical chemistry from Quina Faculty of Science, South Valley University, Egypt 1985.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Horváthová

**Pollution 87**

Monia Renzi

**Section 3 Treatment 139**

Chapter 1 **The Comparison of Soil Load by POPs in Two Major Imission**

Radim Vácha, Jan Skála, Jarmila Čechmánková and Viera

Chapter 2 **The Detection of Organic Pollutants at Trace Level by Variable Kinds of Silver Film with Novel Morphology 29**

Chapter 3 **What Do We Know About the Chronic and Mixture Toxicity of the Residues of Sulfonamides in the Environment? 59** Anna Białk-Bielińska, Jolanta Kumirska and Piotr Stepnowski

Chapter 4 **The Investigation and Assessment on Groundwater Organic**

Hongqi Wang, Shuyuan Liu and Shasha Du

**Environments: A Review 111**

Chapter 5 **Perfluorinated Organic Compounds and Polybrominated**

Chapter 6 **Application of Different Advanced Oxidation Processes for the**

Amilcar Machulek Jr., Silvio C. Oliveira, Marly E. Osugi, Valdir S. Ferreira, Frank H. Quina, Renato F. Dantas, Samuel L. Oliveira,

**Degradation of Organic Pollutants 141**

**Diphenyl Ethers Compounds – Levels and Toxicity in Aquatic**

Zhengjun Zhang, Qin Zhou and Xian Zhang

**Regions of the Czech Republic 3**

**Section 1 Monitoring 1**

**Section 2 Risk 57**
