International Symposium on Pesticides, Their Degradates, and Adjuvants

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is co-sponsoring the "International Symposium on Pesticides, Their Degradates, and Adjuvants" in Prague, Czech Republic, June 4, 2004. The symposium will focus on the current state of knowledge on the fate, effects and treatability of degradates and adjuvants from a drinking-water perspective. The conference will appeal to utility professionals, regulators and academics interested in pesticide fate. Recent U.S. and European monitoring data have shown detectable concentrations of pesticide degradates in surface and ground water. Very little is known about the fate of adjuvants. The symposium is part of an Awwa Research Foundation (AwwaRF) funded study.

Invited Talk

Dana Kolpin, USGS, will give an invited talk on "Degradates: Monitoring and Occurrence" at the symposium. The talk will feature recent research from the USGS on the fate of pesticides in the environment.

Symposium Information

• General Symposium Information

Toxics Program Information on Pesticides

• Glyphosate Herbicide Found in Many Midwestern Streams, Antibiotics Not Common
• Tracking Atrazine and a Breakdown Product (deethylatrazine) through a Drinking-Water Reservoir
• Science of the Total Environment Special Issue on Agricultural Chemicals
• Measuring Pesticides and How They Transform in the Environment
• Management Practices a Factor in Herbicide Declines
• Degradates: A Key to Assessing Herbicide Impacts in Streams
• Where are the Pesticides?
• Topical information on Pesticides

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