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Recent studies shed light on which pesticides are particularly relevant to the pollution of Swiss watercourses and where they come from.

Miyu Moriya from the University of Shizuoka and Dr. Arisa Banno from the Research Institute for Environment, Agriculture and Fisheries in Osaka are working on advancing pesticide analysis using passive samplers.

Rebecca Beauvais talks to SRF about the problem of contaminated sediments and the danger that the pollutants stored there can be remobilised again - for example during flooding or dredging.