Contamination of Water

Health Risk Assessment and Treatment Strategies

1st Edition - August 6, 2021
Editors: Arif Ahamad, Sharf Elahi Siddiqui, Pardeep Singh
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 4 0 5 8 - 8
eBook ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 4 0 5 9 - 5

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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 contamination

1. Contamination of water resources in the mining region
Anita Punia and Saurabh Kumar Singh

2. Contamination of water resources in and around saline lakes
Deepali Singh, Priyadarshini Singh, Harshita Asthana, Nidhi Roy and Saumitra Mukherjee

3. Contamination of groundwater by fly ash heavy metals at landfill sites
Krishna Rawat and Bhawana Pathak

4. Current scenario of heavy metal contamination in water
Rahul Sharma, Pinki Rani Agrawal, Ravi Kumar, Gaurav Gupta and Ittishree

5. Health impacts due to fluoride contamination in water: current scenario
Amandeep Kaur, Ritu Bala, Surinder Singh Bhinder and Sushil Kumar Kansal

6. Contamination of water resources in industrial zones
Gyanendra Tripathi, Arbab Husain, Suhail Ahmad, Ziaul Hasan and Alvina Farooqui

7. Contamination of groundwater resources by pesticides
Muneer Ahmad Malla, Shruti Gupta, Anamika Dubey, Ashwani Kumar and Shweta Yadav

8. Current scenario of pesticide contamination in water
Prachi Rajput, R.K. Sinha and Pooja Devi

Section B - Health risk assessment

9. Contamination of water resources with potentially toxic elements and human health risk assessment: Part 1
Farah 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 2
Asmita Gupta, Swati Wanwari, Madan Kumar and Indu Shekhar Thakur

11. Chemical water contaminants: potential risk to human health and possible remediation
Vinod Kumar Chaudhary, Shailendra Kumar Singh, Arun Lal Srivastav, Anurag

12. Fluoride contamination in water resources and its health risk assessment
Amit Saini and Pinki Rani Agrawal

13. Arsenic contamination in water resources and its health risk assessment
Gongutri Borah, Prashurya Pritam Mudoi and Preetismita Borah

14. Integrated assessment of ammonia-nitrogen in water environments and its exposure to ecology and human health
Kristina Medhi

15. Radiological contaminants in water: pollution, health risk, and treatment
Sanchayita Rajkhowa, Jyotirmoy Sarma and Anupama Rani Das

16. Organic pollutants in water and its health risk assessment through consumption
Ankita Ojha and Dhanesh Tiwary

17. Nanomaterial and microplastic-based contamination in water and its health risk assessment
Upama Baruah, Gautomi Gogoi, Achyut Konwar and Bedanta Gogoi

18. Pharmaceuticals and personal care products: occurrence, detection, risk, and removal technologies in aquatic environment
Bipasha Ghosh, Ashish Sengar, Arif Ahamad and Rao Faraz Waris

19. Emerging pollutants in water and human health
Syed Saquib, Amit Kumar Yadav and Kalp Bhusan Prajapati

Section C - Water treatment strategies

20. Process intensification in wastewater treatments
Kailas L. Wasewar

21. Process intensification in wastewater treatments: basics of process intensification and inorganic pollutants
Kailas L. Wasewar

22. Treatment of contaminated water: membrane separation and biological processes
Suantak Kamsonlian, Saurabh Yadav, Kailas S. Wasewar, Ankur Gaur and Sushil Kumar

23. Process intensification in wastewater treatments: advanced oxidation processes for organic pollutants
Dharm Pal, Vijyendra Kumar, Gamini Sahu and Kailas L. Wasewar

24. Process intensification in wastewater treatment: cavitation and hybrid technologies for organic pollutants
Md Raihan Arfin, Parul Katiyar, Kailas LWasewar and Sushil Kumar

25. Bio-inspired materials for adsorptive removal of water pollutants
Yong Chen and Steplinpaulselvin Selvinsimpson

26. Oxidative stress biomarkers in cyanobacteria exposed to heavy metals
Sadaf Mahfooz, Adeeba Shamim, Arbab Husain, Ziaul Hasan and Alvina Farooqui

27. Sulfur-based advance nanomaterials for water treatment
Sumbul Hafeez

28. Inorganic nanotubes for water treatment through adsorption and photocatalytic degradation
Amal Krishna Saha, Shashikant Shivaji Vhatkar and Ramesh Oraon

29. Graphene oxide-based nanocomposites for adsorptive removal of water pollutants
Priti Malhotra and Arti Jain

30. Ferrite based magnetic nanocomposites for wastewater treatment through adsorption
Atul 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 treatment
Pinki Rani Agrawal, Rahul Sharma and Ravi Kumar

32. Phytogenic plant-based nanocomposites for water treatment
Arshi 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 performance
Nusrat Tara, Atul Sharma, Arshi Choudhry, Noufal Komby Abdulla, Geetanjali Rathi, A.M. Khan and Saif Ali Chaudhry

34. Progress in carbon nanotubes for water treatment
Neha Abbasi and Tabrez Alam Khan

35. Adsorptive removal of water pollutants using reduced graphene oxide-based nanocomposites
Avinash Kumar Pandey, Surabhi Kirti Mishra and Pragati Gahlout

36. Multifunctional organic-inorganic materials for water treatment
Geetanjali 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 treatment
Anupma Thakur and Pooja Devi

38. Magnetically separable graphene oxide-based spinel ferrite nanocomposite for water remediation
Sanjeet 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 environment
Sangeeta, Poorna Khanna, Kapinder, Tarkeshwar and Amit Kumar

Arif Ahamad

Dr. Arif Ahamad is presently working as an Assistant Professor (Department of Environmental Science, Daulatram College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India). He has obtained his master’s degree from the Department of Environmental Science, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India in 2011. He obtained his M.Phil. degree in 2014 and doctorate degree in 2019 from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. The area of his doctoral research is Potentially Toxic Elements (PTEs) in the Groundwater, Soil and Road dust from the Industrial area in Sonbhadra district, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has published more than 10 papers/Book chapters in international and national publishing house in the field of ground water and surface water contamination, wastewater effluent, and landfills as a source of contamination and human health risk assessment. Apart from these several papers are under review. He has also written some editorial articles in popular English newspapers. He presented his research works on several national and international platforms.

Affiliations and expertise

Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Daulatram College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

Sharf Elahi Siddiqui

Dr. Sharf Elahi Siddiqui has earned his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India in 2019. He has done his Master’s in Chemistry from Department of Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University in 2011 and MPhil from Department of Chemistry, Kanpur University, Kanpur in 2013. He is particularly interested in the wastewater treatment using advance materials based on the natural plant materials and nanoparticles, and during his PhD, has concentrated upon preparation of multifunctional organic-inorganic nanocomposite having the application properties in the area of photo-catalysis, adsorption, antioxidant and antibacterial. He has developed the lowcost multifunctional material by mixing a low cost and abundant phytogenic plant materials and lower toxic nanoparticles having unique properties. These materials can introduce extraordinary multifunction properties for water treatment having application properties of magnetic separation, photo-catalysis, adsorption and antibacterial properties. He has published several research papers in the peer journals like Journal. He has also published several review papers and book chapters, which cover the recent advancement in the field of water treatment.

Affiliations and expertise

Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India

Pardeep Singh

Dr. Pardeep Singh is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Science, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, in New Delhi, India. He obtained his PhD at the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi. Dr. Singh has published more than 65 papers in international journals in the fields of waste management, environmental pollution, and agricultural nanotechnology, and has co-edited 30 books.

Affiliations and expertise

Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India