Water Pollution and Management Practices

ISBN-13: 9789811583575 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 331 str.

Anita Singh; Madhoolika Agrawal; Shashi Bhushan Agrawal

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Microbial Contamination of Drinking Water.- Chapter 2. Landscape Perspective to River Pollution: A Case Study of Bentong River, Malaysia.- Chapter 3. Existence of Antibiotics in Waste Water as a Pollution Indicator.- Chapter 4. Application of Artificial Intelligence in Predicting Groundwater Contaminants.- Chapter 5. Arsenic Contamination of Ground Water and its Mitigation Strategies.- Chapter 6. Wastewater Reuse in Peri-Urban Agriculture Ecosystem: Current Scenario, Consequences and Control Measures.- Chapter 7. Nitrogenous wastes and its efficient treatment in wastewater.- Chapter 8. Application of Waste Water In Irrigation and Its Regulation with Special reference to Agriculture Residues.- Chapter 9. Riparian Ecotones-An Important Derivative Of Managing The River Pollution.- Chapter 10. Ecosystem Responses to Pollution in the Ganga River: Key Issues to Address River Management.- Chapter 11. An Overview on Heavy metal Contamination of Water System and Sustainable Approach for Remediation.- Chapter 12. An Overview of Sustainability of Textile Wastewater Management In Textile Sectors.- Chapter 13. Role of Coagulation/ flocculation Technology for the Treatment of Dye Wastewater: Trend and Future Aspect.

O autorze

Dr. Anita Singh is an Assistant Professor at Centre of Advanced Study in Botany, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U.P., India. She has done her M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Banaras Hindu University. Her expertise falls under the domain of sustainable agriculture. She has worked on Metal remediation, impact of abiotic stress on plant physiology and biochemistry, assessment of Florescence Transients. She has 40 publications of her credit. She has got several awards including International Green Talent Award organized by BASF, Germany and an International Alice J. Murphy Outstanding Achievement Award. She has already edited some informative books published by Springer nature, IGI and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. and also acts as reviewer of several papers published in reputed journals.

Dr. Madhoolika Agrawal is a Professor since 1999 at Centre of Advanced Study in Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. She has worked on environmental pollution and global climatic change effects and their management. Dr. Agrawal is a recipient of US Fulbright Fellowship and worked at USDA, Beltsville, Maryland, USA and INSA- Royal Society exchange fellowship at Lancaster University, U.K. She is Fellow of Indian National Science Academy, National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India. She has worked on various projects funded by Government of India and international agencies. She has published more than 250 research papers, co-edited a book (Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, USA) and co-authored a book (Springer).

Dr Sashi Bhusan Agrawal is a Professor of Ecology at Centre of Advanced Study In Botany, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University. He has done his M.Sc. from Agra University and Ph.D. from Banaras Hindu University.  Professor Agrawal has worked in the area of stress biology and conducted long term field experiments to ascertain the effects of abiotic stress factors on plants. He has worked as a Visiting Scientist at USDA, Beltsville, Maryland, USA. He edited two books published by SPB Academic Publishing and CRC/Lewis. He has published more than 160 research papers and is serving in the editorial board of several international journals. He has successfully completed several research projects funded by ICAR, MOEn, DST, UGC, UP-CST and CSIR. 

Blurb

Water pollution is a matter of concern for both developing and developed parts of the world. This book presents an overview on water pollution and its sustainable management. The book discusses the fundamental aspects of water pollution as well as advanced sustainable technologies for abating water pollution. It is a comprehensive collection of information related with water pollutants which are extremely harmful to man, other living organisms and to the ecosystems. It is all-inclusive coverage of technical, socio-political, scientific as well as social issues revolving around water pollution and management. 

The book brings out innovative ideas promoting sustainable technologies and extensively covers the diversity of modern technologies related to prevention of water pollution. Book also covers social aspects of water related issues. It is an essential reading for upper level graduates and undergraduates pursuing environmental studies and researchers in the field of waste water management