Current map of river salinization: one out of three peninsular rivers is affected
One out of three rivers in the peninsula has salinization mainly due the impact of agricultural activity and territory urbanization. This environmental problem will affect hydric ecosystems due global warming, the growing use of water and the exploitation of soil natural resources. These are some of the red lines revealed in the special volume on salinization in water ecosystems, published this December in the prestigious journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, and edited by the experts Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles, member of the research group Freshwater Ecology, Hydrology and Management (FEHM-UB) and the Water Research Institute of the University of Barcelona (IdRA), Ben Kefford (University of Canberra, Australia), and Ralf B. Schäfer (University of Koblenz and Landau, Germany).
Other participating FEHM-UB researchers are Núria Bonada (UB-IRBio), Cayetano Gutiérrez-Cánobas, Raúl Acosta and Pau Fortuño; Neus Otero and Albert Soler, from the Research Group on Applied Mineralogy and Environment (MAiMA) of the Faculty of Earth Sciences of the UB; David Suari and Santiago Gorostiza (UAB), as well as experts from the Environmental Hydraulics Institute IHCantabria from the University of Cantabria, the University of Murcia, the University of Castilla-La Mancha and the Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology (IPNA-CSIC) in Canary Islands, among others.