1. Editorial: Effects of human population growth on freshwater quality, quantity and biotic systems

   • T. G. Northcote

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 2

2. Spatial and temporal analysis of water pollution in China

   • Tang Y.
   • Bi J.

   I. General Impacts of Human Population Growth on Inland Waters Pages: 3 - 7

3. New water quality indices for the era of sustainable development in China

   • Bi J.
   • Yu C.

   I. General Impacts of Human Population Growth on Inland Waters Pages: 9 - 15

4. Effects of human activities on the ecological changes of lakes in China

   • Zhang Z. S.
   • Mei Z. P.

   I. General Impacts of Human Population Growth on Inland Waters Pages: 17 - 24

5. Surface water chemical changes due to human activities in the Tarim Basin

   • Wei Zhongyi

   I. General Impacts of Human Population Growth on Inland Waters Pages: 25 - 29

6. Chemical composition of river particulates in eastern China

   • Chen Jingsheng
   • Wang Feiyue

   I. General Impacts of Human Population Growth on Inland Waters Pages: 31 - 37

7. The water quality of Lake Taihu and its protection

   • Huang Yiping
   • Zhu Min

   I. General Impacts of Human Population Growth on Inland Waters Pages: 39 - 44

8. Water dynamics and population pressure in the Nepalese Himalayas

   • Schreier H.
   • Shah P. B.

   I. General Impacts of Human Population Growth on Inland Waters Pages: 45 - 51

9. Anthropogenic influences on Hong Kong streams

   • Dudgeon David

   I. General Impacts of Human Population Growth on Inland Waters Pages: 53 - 61

10. Recent drastic changes in Lake Biwa bio-communities, with special attention to exploitation of the littoral zone

    • Nakanishi Masami
    • Sekino Tatsuk

    I. General Impacts of Human Population Growth on Inland Waters Pages: 63 - 67

11. Human impacts on Laguna de Bay, Philippines and management strategies for their mitigation

    • Guerrero Rafael D. III

    I. General Impacts of Human Population Growth on Inland Waters Pages: 69 - 72

12. Vision 2020: Towards an environmentally sound and sustainable development of freshwater resources in Malaysia

    • Ho S. C.

    I. General Impacts of Human Population Growth on Inland Waters Pages: 73 - 84

13. Human impacts on the Waikato River system, New Zealand

    • Chapman M. A.

    I. General Impacts of Human Population Growth on Inland Waters Pages: 85 - 99

14. Human population growth and over-utilization of the biotic resources of the Murray — Darling River system, Australia

    • Shiel Russell J.

    I. General Impacts of Human Population Growth on Inland Waters Pages: 101 - 113

15. The effects of agricultural land use and cotton production on tributaries of the Darling River, Australia

    • Arthington Angela H.

    I. General Impacts of Human Population Growth on Inland Waters Pages: 115 - 125

16. Effects of human population growth on the Fraser and Okanagan River systems, Canada: A comparative inquiry

    • Northcote Thomas G.

    I. General Impacts of Human Population Growth on Inland Waters Pages: 127 - 133

17. Urbanization and agricultural intensification in the Lower Fraser River valley,: Impacts on water use and quality

    • Hall Ken J.
    • Schreier Hans

    I. General Impacts of Human Population Growth on Inland Waters Pages: 135 - 146

18. Impacts of growth in resource use and human population on the Nechako River: A major tributary of the Fraser River, British Columbia, Canada

    • Hartman G. F.

    I. General Impacts of Human Population Growth on Inland Waters Pages: 147 - 164

19. Human population effects on genetic diversity of salmonid fishes

    • Mathisen Ole A.

    I. General Impacts of Human Population Growth on Inland Waters Pages: 165 - 169

20. Geochemical characteristics of elements in suspended sediments in the Huanghe (Yellow) River

    • Qu Cuihui
    • Chen Chaozi
    • Wang Lizhen

    II. Heavy Metal or Other Contaminant Problems Pages: 171 - 179

21. Geochemistry of metals in sediments from the mainstem of the Yellow River, China

    • Zhang Chaosheng
    • Zhang Shen
    • Wang Lizhen

    II. Heavy Metal or Other Contaminant Problems Pages: 181 - 185

22. A study on the physico-chemical speciation of heavy metals in waters of rivers, and lakes in the Changjiang River Valley, China

    • Chen Xibao
    • Zhang Shen
    • Cheng Yanxun

    II. Heavy Metal or Other Contaminant Problems Pages: 187 - 195

23. Effect of metal pollution on the water quality in Taihu Lake

    • Yang Weili
    • Yang Liensheng
    • Zheng Jianxun

    II. Heavy Metal or Other Contaminant Problems Pages: 197 - 200

24. Heavy metals pollution on the sediments in lakes Dianchi, Erhai and Poyanghu and historical records

    • Zhang Xiumei
    • Zhang Shen
    • Zhang Shurong

    II. Heavy Metal or Other Contaminant Problems Pages: 201 - 208

25. A robust-symmetric mean: A new way of mean calculation for environmental data

    • Zhang Chaosheng
    • Zhang Shen

    II. Heavy Metal or Other Contaminant Problems Pages: 209 - 212

26. Fractionation and chlorination of organic carbon in water from Yinluan River, Tianjin, China

    • Tao Shu

    II. Heavy Metal or Other Contaminant Problems Pages: 213 - 217

27. Distribution and degradation of Alkyl benzene sodium sulfonate, and its harmful effect on carp in Dianchi Lake

    • Liu Jia Qi
    • Zhang Yu Xia

    III. Ecotoxicological Studies Pages: 219 - 227

28. Toxic effects of Alkyl benzene sodium sulfonate on incubation of carp (Cyprinus carpio rabeifusecus) eggs in Dianchi Lake

    • Xu Ya

    III. Ecotoxicological Studies Pages: 229 - 232

29. Biochemical and histological alterations in the prawn Macrobrachium lamerrei following exposure to automobile discharge

    • Yamuna A.
    • Kabila V.
    • Geraldine P.

    III. Ecotoxicological Studies Pages: 233 - 237

30. IGU video archive: Inter-views

    • Woo-ik Yu

    IGU-Reports Pages: 239 - 248