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Gradually pesticide residues have been one of the main concerns about contamination in different ecosystems and consequently significantly compromised urban water resources. In this way, the contamination of pesticides has caused changes in the supply of clean water for people, which has caused problems for human health and for the animals that inhabit this ecosystem. In view of this, the main objective of this chapter was to approach and discuss through the scientific literature about the impacts of pesticides on the environment, particularly in urban aquatic ecosystems, in addition to addressing the regulation of the use of these pesticides. Pesticides can be derived from both agricultural and human sources and are vehemently ubiquitous in urban surface waters as well, since most of the time the occurrence of anthropogenic contaminants such as pesticides in urban surface waters is due to the mediation of transport from external sources. In this context, pollution by pesticide residues in urban aquatic ecosystems has become increasingly serious and has required specialized attention, mainly due to the occurrence of harmful consequences for human beings, water resources, food, air, and soil. Different regulatory approaches applied for controlling the release and use pesticide products in the markets and in urban agro-systems in Brazil have also been highlighted in this chapter.
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Souza, K.S. et al. (2023). Impacts of the Pesticides on Urban Aquatic Ecosystems and Their Regulation Measures. In: Singh, R., Singh, P., Tripathi, S., Chandra, K.K., Bhadouria, R. (eds) Xenobiotics in Urban Ecosystems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35775-6_19
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