Continental Atlantic Rivers: The Seine Basin

Garnier, Josette
Meybeck, Michel
Ayrault, Sophie
Billen, Gilles
Blanchoud, Hélène
Carré, Catherine
Flipo, Nicolas
Gasperi, Johnny
Lestel, Laurence
De Marsily, Ghislain
Mouchel, Jean Marie
Servais, Pierre
Tales, Evelyne

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Publication date

January 2021

DOI

10.1016/B978-0-08-102612-0.00005-5

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Abstract

The Seine River and its basin (70 000 km2, 500 m3/s mean annual discharge) are studied since 1989 by an interdisciplinary research programme (https://www.piren-seine.fr/). The river receives the effluents of about 17 M inhab (70% from Paris conurbation) and from industries. Intensive agriculture using agrochemicals is another cause of water quality alteration. Morphological alterations (such as channelization and reservoirs construction) were considerable.SCOPUS: ch.binfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe