PESTICIDES AND HEALTH RISKS

Abstract

Pesticides are used heavily in agriculture. The greatest potential for unintended adverse effects of pesticides in many respects is through contamination of the hydrologic systems, which supply water to both humans and natural ecosystem. water is one of the primary media in which pesticides are transported from application area to other locations. The extent of ground water contamination is not directly observable. These include chemical; transport models to evaluate ground water contamination developed in recent years (GLEAMS, formerly known as Chemical Run off estimation of agricultural management systems, CREAMs). This chapter is organised. Section 3.2 builds on models to evaluate grown water contamination, Section 3.3 builds a framework to integrate the ground water quality parameter into an estimable crop output function with the damage control input of pesticides. Section 3.4 results, Section 3.5 discusses about the procedures and analyses the review results and highlights on the computed contamination levels of ground water.