The impact assessment of desalination plant discharges on heavy metal pollution in the coastal sediments of the Persian Gulf

• Main Authors: Sharifinia, Moslem, Keshavarzifard, Mehrzad, Hosseinkhezri, Parisa, Khanjani, Mohammad Hossein, Yap, Chee Kong, Smith, Walker O., Daliri, Moslem, Haghshenas, Arash
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier 2022
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/109245/; https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0025326X22002818

In recent decades the development of desalination plants (DPs) for desalination of seawater has increased dramatically, while little attention has been paid to the effects of this activity on the accumulation of heavy metals (HMs) in the sediments of affected ecosystems. The present study was impl...