People use in their lives more and more chemicals. A significant part of these chemicals will eventually get into water environment where they influence organisms. Municipal wastewater is still an important source of contamination of water environment with wide spectrum of xenobiotic substances, mostly drug residues, detergents, disinfection and cosmetics, but also drugs which are abused in society.
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The rector of the Charles University appointed our colleague Dipl. - Ing. Antonín Kouba, Ph.D. as an Associate Professor in the field of of Ecology 1st July 2021. Congratulations.
Written by Ing. Mirka Průšová
Scientists at the Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters USB are exploring ways how to produce healthy and sustainable food for a growing human population without the use of pesticides. For this research, they built a modern hall, which combines fish farming and plant culture in the so-called aquaponics. Waste from fish farming serves here as an excellent fertilizer for plants and thus a minimum of waste is produced. Instead of pesticides, they use the natural insect police to protect plants from pests.
You can see the short video about our faculty aquaponics (only in Czech) here.
Written by doc. Ing. Jan Mráz, Ph.D.
