Where in the Bela Krajina region does drinking water originate? Why is the karst aquifer so vulnerable to pollution? What role does groundwater play in the conservation of endangered species, such as the olm?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Geology students, who participated in a field trip as part of Geotabor 2026 in the Bela Krajina region led by Katja Koren Pepelnik of GeoZS, sought and found answers to these questions. Part of the field trip was dedicated to presenting the impacts of human activities on groundwater, including monitoring industrial areas and the story of the karst spring of the Krupa River, which, due to historical PCB contamination, is one of the best-known examples of the long-term impact of industry on the karst environment in Slovenia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The participants visited the most important hydrogeological sites, including the Dobli\u010dica spring, which supplies drinking water to most of the Bela Krajina region. Bojan Klemen\u010di\u010d from Komunala \u010crnomelj presented the characteristics of the Dobli\u010dica spring and the Dobli\u010de pumping station. The Dobli\u010dica spring is also an important habitat for the olm, whose survival is closely linked to the high quality of the groundwater. The students learned about field measurements of temperature, pH, electrical conductivity, and oxygen content, and then conducted the measurements themselves at the Topli\u010dica subtermal spring. The excursion continued to the Pod lipo, Lahinja, and Okno springs and concluded at the Sinjevr\u0161ki pond, which has dried up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Kje na obmo\u010dju Bele krajine izvira pitna voda? Zakaj je kra\u0161ko podzemlje tako ranljivo za onesna\u017eenje? Kak\u0161no vlogo ima podzemna voda pri ohranjanju ogro\u017eenih vrst, kot je \u010dlove\u0161ka ribica? Na ta vpra\u0161anja so odgovore iskali in na\u0161li \u0161tudenti geologije, udele\u017eenci strokovne ekskurzije v okviru Geotabora 2026 v Beli krajini pod vodstvom Katje Koren Pepelnik z […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":966197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obvestila"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n