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Pollution characteristics and risk assessment of heavy metals in surface water of Manas River, Xinjiang, China

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The water ecological environment plays an important role in the development of Xinjiang. Dense industrial areas have certain pollution to surface water. In this study, surface water samples from Manas River Basin near Shihezi City were collected in May 2019 to study the pollution characteristics of heavy metals Cd, As, Cr, Cu, Ni, Zn, Fe, and Pb in this section of the river. The content of Zn in this basin is the highest, and the content of Cd is the lowest. In this study, Nemerow pollution index results show that the single-factor pollution index of 8 kinds of heavy metals at each sampling point of the Manas River is less than 1; the grade is “clean.” The comprehensive pollution index of all sampling points is less than 0.7, and the heavy metal pollution grade of the surface water of Manas river is “no pollution.” The human health risk assessment model results show that the total health risk of children is higher than that of adults. Cr, Fe, Ni, Zn, Cu, Cd, and Pb are mainly affected by domestic and industrial wastewater discharge and non-point source pollution, and As is controlled by the natural source of the soil parent material layer.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the above-mentioned funders for their financial support of this study. The authors acknowledge the always helpful experiment assistance from Xiaodong Liu. We extend our sincere thanks to the anonymous reviewers and dedicated editors for their invaluable opinions and great contributions to the successful publication of this manuscript.

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The high-level talent research start-up fund of Shihezi University in 2018 (No. RCZK201829), Double First-Class Special Projects for Doctoral Research of Shihezi University (SHYL-BQ201802), and an Open Project of the Key Laboratory of Green Processing of Chemical Engineering of Xinjiang Bingtuan, Shihezi University (KF201803).

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    Shaohua He, Bingbing Tian, Fengyu Liu, Junqi Wang, Shuyi Gong, Jianjiang Lu & Min Li

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This idea was given by Min Li and Jianjiang Lu. Fengyu Liu completed the sample collection, and Bingbing Tian, Junqi Wang, and Shuyi Gong tested the sample. Shaohua He analyzed the data, discussed the results, and completed the final write up of the paper.

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He, S., Tian, B., Liu, F. et al. Pollution characteristics and risk assessment of heavy metals in surface water of Manas River, Xinjiang, China. Arab J Geosci 15, 1770 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-022-11029-x

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