1984 Budapest (HUN) 9th World Fertilizer Congress
With increasing industrialization in Europe a severe problem came up, namely the pollution of waters and water resources, in which the attained high level of fertilizers use, especially commercial nitrogen fertilizers, was mainly incriminated.
Later on, after intensive studies of this phenomenon, additional pollutants of industrial and urban origin were recognized to be a decisive cause for the pollution of waters, as well as the atmosphere and soil.
As an unavoidable consequence of this development and because of other problems lying in the economic structure of the international trade, the fertilizer industries in Europe declined and with them the activities of CIEC, as these were dependent on the contributions of its members.
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