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Vol.2, No.5, 395-399 (2010) Health doi:10.4236/health.2010.25059 The effect of detergent as polluting agent on the photosynthetic activity and chlorophyll content in bean leaves 1 2 1 3 Branislav R. Jovanić*, Srdjan Bojović , Bratimir Panić , Božidar Radenković , Marijana Despotović3 1Institute of Physics, Belgrade University, Zemun, Serbia; *Corresponding Author: branislav.jovanic@ipb.ac.rs 2Institute for Biological Research “Siniša Stanković”, Belgrade, Serbia 3Faculty of Organization Science, Belgrade, Serbia Received 28 October 2009; revised 10 January 2010; accepted 12 January 2010. ABSTRACT hygiene. The subject of this study is an investigation into water pollution resulting from everyday domestic hygi- The paper investigates effects of detergent for enic procedures. There are hardly any households with- domestic use on the photosynthetic activity and out a washing machine connected with pipes to sewage chlorophyll content in intact bean leaves. The for discharge of used water with detergent. Used water is plants were watered for 21 days with a solution discharged into the nearest river or a lake and together of domestic washing powder of 0.60 g r/l. It was with it detergent. Undoubtedly, with time detergent con- established that the activity of photosynthetic centration in the river/lake goes up and the direct conse- apparatus in the plant leaf PhACNorm [%] decrea- quence of this is a dramatic change in t