Contamination of Water

Water containing significant amounts of inorganic and organic contaminants can have serious environmental consequences and serious health implications when ingested. Contamination of Water: Health Risk Assessment and Treatment Strategies takes an interconnected look at the various pollutants, the source of contamination, the effects of contamination on aquatic ecosystems and human health, and what the potential mitigation strategies are. This book is organized into three sections. The first section examines the sources of potential contamination. This includes considering the current scenario of heavy metal and pesticide contamination in water as well as the regions impacted due to industrialization, mining, or urbanization. The second section goes on to discuss water contamination and health risks caused by toxic elements, radiological contaminants, microplastics and nanoparticles, and pharmaceutical and personal care products. This book concludes with a section exploring efficient low-cost treatment technologies and remediation strategies that remove toxic pollutants from water. Contamination of Water incorporates both theoretical and practical information that will be useful for researchers, professors, graduate students, and professionals working on water contamination, environmental and health impacts, and the management and treatment of water resources.

Section A - Water contamination1. Contamination of water resources in the mining regionAnita Punia and Saurabh Kumar Singh 2. Contamination of water resources in and around saline lakesDeepali Singh, Priyadarshini Singh, Harshita Asthana, Nidhi Roy and Saumitra Mukherjee 3. Contamination of groundwater by fly ash heavy metals at landfill sitesKrishna Rawat and Bhawana Pathak 4. Current scenario of heavy metal contamination in waterRahul Sharma, Pinki Rani Agrawal, Ravi Kumar, Gaurav Gupta and Ittishree 5. Health impacts due to fluoride contamination in water: current scenarioAmandeep Kaur, Ritu Bala, Surinder Singh Bhinder and Sushil Kumar Kansal 6. Contamination of water resources in industrial zonesGyanendra Tripathi, Arbab Husain, Suhail Ahmad, Ziaul Hasan and Alvina Farooqui 7. Contamination of groundwater resources by pesticidesMuneer Ahmad Malla, Shruti Gupta, Anamika Dubey, Ashwani Kumar and Shweta Yadav 8. Current scenario of pesticide contamination in waterPrachi Rajput, R.K. Sinha and Pooja DeviSection B - Health risk assessment9. Contamination of water resources with potentially toxic elements and human health risk assessment: Part 1Farah Ma'arfi, Mohd Yasir Khan, Arbab Husain, Afreen Khanam and Ziaul Hasan 10. Contamination of water resources with potentially toxic elements and human health risk assessment: Part 2Asmita Gupta, Swati Wanwari, Madan Kumar and Indu Shekhar Thakur 11. Chemical water contaminants: potential risk to human health and possible remediationVinod Kumar Chaudhary, Shailendra Kumar Singh, Arun Lal Srivastav, Anurag 12. Fluoride contamination in water resources and its health risk assessmentAmit Saini and Pinki Rani Agrawal 13. Arsenic contamination in water resources and its health risk assessmentGongutri Borah, Prashurya Pritam Mudoi and Preetismita Borah 14. Integrated assessment of ammonia-nitrogen in water environments and its exposure to ecology and human healthKristina Medhi 15. Radiological contaminants in water: pollution, health risk, and treatmentSanchayita Rajkhowa, Jyotirmoy Sarma and Anupama Rani Das 16. Organic pollutants in water and its health risk assessment through consumptionAnkita Ojha and Dhanesh Tiwary 17. Nanomaterial and microplastic-based contamination in water and its health risk assessmentUpama Baruah, Gautomi Gogoi, Achyut Konwar and Bedanta Gogoi 18. Pharmaceuticals and personal care products: occurrence, detection, risk, and removal technologies in aquatic environmentBipasha Ghosh, Ashish Sengar, Arif Ahamad and Rao Faraz Waris 19. Emerging pollutants in water and human healthSyed Saquib, Amit Kumar Yadav and Kalp Bhusan PrajapatiSection C - Water treatment strategies20. Process intensification in wastewater treatmentsKailas L. Wasewar 21. Process intensification in wastewater treatments: basics of process intensification and inorganic pollutantsKailas L. Wasewar 22. Treatment of contaminated water: membrane separation and biological processesSuantak Kamsonlian, Saurabh Yadav, Kailas S. Wasewar, Ankur Gaur and Sushil Kumar 23. Process intensification in wastewater treatments: advanced oxidation processes for organic pollutantsDharm Pal, Vijyendra Kumar, Gamini Sahu and Kailas L. Wasewar 24. Process intensification in wastewater treatment: cavitation and hybrid technologies for organic pollutantsMd Raihan Arfin, Parul Katiyar, Kailas LWasewar and Sushil Kumar 25. Bio-inspired materials for adsorptive removal of water pollutantsYong Chen and Steplinpaulselvin Selvinsimpson 26. Oxidative stress biomarkers in cyanobacteria exposed to heavy metalsSadaf Mahfooz, Adeeba Shamim, Arbab Husain, Ziaul Hasan and Alvina Farooqui 27. Sulfur-based advance nanomaterials for water treatmentSumbul Hafeez 28. Inorganic nanotubes for water treatment through adsorption and photocatalytic degradationAmal Krishna Saha, Shashikant Shivaji Vhatkar and Ramesh Oraon 29. Graphene oxide-based nanocomposites for adsorptive removal of water pollutantsPriti Malhotra and Arti Jain 30. Ferrite based magnetic nanocomposites for wastewater treatment through adsorptionAtul Sharma, Arshi Choudhry, Geetanjali Rathi, Nusrat Tara, Noufal Komby Abdulla, Md. Sajid and Saif Ali Chaudhry 31. Magnetically separable (carbon) graphene oxide based nano-composites for water treatmentPinki Rani Agrawal, Rahul Sharma and Ravi Kumar 32. Phytogenic plant-based nanocomposites for water treatmentArshi Choudhry, Atul Sharma, Nusrat Tara, Geetanjali Rathi, Noufal Komby Abdulla, Md. Sajid, A.M. Khan and Saif Ali Chaudhry 33. Graphene, graphene oxide, and reduced graphene oxide-based materials: a comparative adsorption performanceNusrat Tara, Atul Sharma, Arshi Choudhry, Noufal Komby Abdulla, Geetanjali Rathi, A.M. Khan and Saif Ali Chaudhry 34. Progress in carbon nanotubes for water treatmentNeha Abbasi and Tabrez Alam Khan 35. Adsorptive removal of water pollutants using reduced graphene oxide-based nanocompositesAvinash Kumar Pandey, Surabhi Kirti Mishra and Pragati Gahlout 36. Multifunctional organic-inorganic materials for water treatmentGeetanjali Rathi, Arshi Choudhry, Shoaib Khan, Atul Sharma, Nusrat Tara, Noufal Komby Abdullah, Sharf Ilahi Siddiqui, A.M. Khan and Saif Ali Chaudhry 37. 4d Metal-based nanomaterials for water treatmentAnupma Thakur and Pooja Devi 38. Magnetically separable graphene oxide-based spinel ferrite nanocomposite for water remediationSanjeet Kumar Paswan, Rajnish Kumar, Pawan Kumar, Ram Kishore Singh, Ashish Kumar, Sushil Kumar Shukla and Lawrence Kumar 39. Microbial fuel cell: a greener way to protect the environmentSangeeta, Poorna Khanna, Kapinder, Tarkeshwar and Amit Kumar