University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore

Papers presented at a conference sponsored by the International Association on Water Pollution Research at University College London, Apr. 11-13, 1972, and previously published in Water research, volume 7, parts 1 and 2, 1973.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Natural phosphate sources in relation to phosphate budgets : a contribution to the understanding of eutrophication / H. L. Golterman -- Significance of man-made sources of phosphorus: fertilizers and farming. The phosphorus involved in agricultural systems and possibilities of its movement into natural water / G. W. Cooke and R. J. B. Williams -- The significance of man-made sources of phosphorus: detergents and sewage / D. G. Devey and N. Harkness -- Phosphates in sewage and sewage treatment / Valentine H. Lewin -- Phosphorus in industrial water / G. S. Solt -- Phosphorus in primary aquatic plants / G. E. Fogg -- Phosphorus in marine zooplankton / E. D. S. Corner -- Role of phosphorus in eutrophication and diffuse source control / G. Fred Lee -- Significance of phosphorus in lakes and coastal water sediments and benthos / Werner Stumm -- The acceleration of the hydrogeochemical cycling of phosphorus / Werner Stumm -- Phosphorus in chemical and physical treatment processes / K.-A. Melkersson -- The role of phosphorus in the growth of Cladophora / Carole E. R. Pitcairn and H. A. Hawkes -- Eutrophication and Lough Neagh / R. B. Wood and C. E. Gibson -- Stimulation of phytoplankton growth by mixtures of phosphate, nitrate and organic chelators / R. A. Jordan and M. E. Bender -- Soil and fertilizer phosphorus in the Irish ecosystem / P. Kieran Hanley and Matthew D. Murphy -- Treatment in municipal plants : innovations for removal of phosphorus / Philip H. Jones -- Chemical pretreatment before biological treatment in sewage plants / Bernt Ericsson -- A new method of removing phosphorus to produce a ready fertilizer / S. E. Jorgensen -- Experience with algal blooms and the removal of phosphorus from sewage / M. A. Simmonds -- Environmental impact of detergent builders in California waters / David Jenkins, Warren J. Kaufman, P.H. Mcgauhey, Alex J. Horne and James Gasser -- An improved method of phosphorus analysis in sea water / Iwao Hosokawa and Fumro Ohshima -- Problems in the analysis of phosphorus compounds / J. D. Burton -- Safety evaluation of substitutes for phosphates in detergents / G. K. Ashforth and George Calvin -- Soluble phosphate removal in the activated sludge process / David A. Long, John B. Nesbitt and R. Rupert Kountz -- The microbiology of an activated sludge waste-water treatment plant chemically treated for phosphorus removal / Judith A. Davis and Richard F. Unz -- Efficient biological waste-water purification is a precondition for chemical phosphate removal / E. Dobolyi.