Identification of the sources generating impact on the water quality of the East Jiu basin

The main economic activity in the Jiu Valley is mining, which provides to the society an important content of mineral raw materials required for the development and progress, representing the main activity in producing the value chain. The majority of the mining activities and other economic activities deployed along the basin of the East Jiu generates both negative environmental impacts (more or less serious) and positive impacts such as those related to employment, staff training, creating infrastructures etc. In the most cases, the negative impacts of the human activities can be much improved up to a point or even eliminated through the remedial measures, particularly through environmental rehabilitation of the affected areas. But if a watercourse is strongly affected by sediments generated by the human activity still on the top side, the pollution will be intensifed much more on the bottom side with signifiant changes on the aquatic ecosystems and with an impossibility of consumption and the use of the water resources by the riparian population...