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DU Yao, XIONG Yaojin, DENG Yamin, WANG Yanxin. Research progress on geogenic-contaminated high ammonium groundwater[J]. Hydrogeology & Engineering Geology, 2025, 52(1): 23-31. doi: 10.16030/j.cnki.issn.1000-3665.202409031
Citation: DU Yao, XIONG Yaojin, DENG Yamin, WANG Yanxin. Research progress on geogenic-contaminated high ammonium groundwater[J]. Hydrogeology & Engineering Geology, 2025, 52(1): 23-31. doi: 10.16030/j.cnki.issn.1000-3665.202409031
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Research progress on geogenic-contaminated high ammonium groundwater

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    Key Laboratory of Groundwater Quality and Health, Ministry of Education, Wuhan, Hubei　430078, China

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    School of Environmental Studies, China University of Geosciences （Wuhan） , Wuhan, Hubei　430078, China

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  • Author Bio: 杜尧，中国地质大学（武汉）研究员，博士生导师。国家优秀青年科学基金获得者，湖北省高层次人才计划入选者。担任国际水文科学协会中国委员会地下水分委会委员、中国环境科学学会污染源排放与管控专业委员会委员、中国水利学会地下水科学与工程专业委员会委员、中国自然资源学会水资源专业委员会委员，Journal of Earth Science、《地球科学》《安全与环境工程》青年编委等职。　　主要从事生态水文地质、地下水污染与防治、同位素水文地球化学等领域的研究工作。先后主持国家重点研发计划课题、国家自然科学基金面上项目、湖北省重点研发计划项目等国家和省部级科研项目7项。共计发表SCI论文70余篇，其中第一/通讯作者SCI论文45篇（含领域顶刊Environmental Science & Technology 5篇、Water Research 6篇、Water Resources Research 2篇）。获国际地球化学协会青年科学家奖（埃贝尔蒙奖，Ebelmen Award）、中国地质调查局地质科技奖二等奖（4/9）等荣誉
Received Date:  13 September 2024
Revised Date:  28 September 2024
Publish Date:  15 January 2025
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  • Groundwater nitrogen contamination is one of the most prevalent water environment problems worldwide. For a long time, the high concentration of ammonium in groundwater has been attributed to inputs from various human activities. However, the natural ammonium anomalies in groundwater have been neglected in previous studies. This paper reviewed the potential sources of ammonium in groundwater systems from anthropogenic sources including domestic and industrial wastewater discharges, domestic landfills, fertilizer and pesticide applications, sewage irrigation, and geological sources of natural organic matter mineralization. The global distribution of geogenic high-ammonium groundwater was also summarized. From the perspectives of depositional and hydrogeochemical environments, it is summarized that the occurrence characteristics of geogenic ammonium in groundwater systems were organic matter-rich, stagnant, confined, and reducing conditions. Based on two typical case studies, it is clarified that the evolution of macroscopic depositional environments controls the abundance/bio-availability of buried organic matter and thus results in the formation of high-ammonium groundwater through mineralization, whereas the molecular composition of natural organic matter and its degradation pathway at the microscale play a major role in controlling the transport and enrichment of ammonium in groundwater. The direction of future research on high ammonium groundwater that should be deepened and expanded was proposed, mainly including the combination of macro-model and micro-mechanism, the control of the organic carbon age, and the influence of high ammonium groundwater discharge on the nutrient status of surface water.

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