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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/39364| Title: | Storing manure in the open |
| Authors: | Deidun, Alan |
| Keywords: | Manures -- Malta Livestock farms -- Malta Malta Resources Authority Malta Environment and Planning Authority Land use -- Environmental aspects -- Malta |
| Issue Date: | 2012-04-22 |
| Publisher: | Allied Newspapers Ltd. |
| Citation: | Deidun, A. (2012, April 22). Storing manure in the open. The Times of Malta, pp. 1-2. |
| Abstract: | The photo published above was taken at a livestock farm in Gudja, close to Zejtun's Tal-Barrani Bypass. It shows manure being stockpiled in the open air, with no cover whatsoever, during (and throughout) the rainy season. This contravention, along with the fact that the area is probably an aquifer recharge zone, is not good news for our already beleaguered groundwater. It is relevant to point out that 13 of Malta's 15 aquifers have very high nitrate levels.The irony of it all is that legal provisions exist for this sort of thing not to happen. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/39364 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacSciGeo |
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