Impact of water pollution on human health and environmental sustainability
This book highlights several important water-related issues and explores a number of potential solutions to the problem of water sustainability by focusing on research-based perspectives on water availability, industrial and agricultural pollution, water contamination, and their impacts on the human...
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Hershey, PA
Information Science Reference, an imprint of IGI Global
[2016]
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| Series: | Practice, progress and proficiency in sustainability (PPPS) books series
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Table of Contents:
- The fundamentals of water and natural waters / Benjamin Cuker, George Bugyi
- Industrial and agricultural sources and pathways of aquatic pollution / Nikolaos Voulvoulis, Karyn Georges
- A review of emerging contaminants in water: classification, sources, and potential risks / Alexandros I. Stefanakis, Julie A. Becker
- Pharmaceuticals and personal care products as emerging water contaminants / Julie A. Becker, Alexandros I. Stefanakis
- Impacts of artisanal and small-scale gold mining on water quality in Mozambique and Zimbabwe / Never Mujere, Manuel Isidro
- Cyanobacterial toxins in water sources and their impacts on human health / Zakaria Mohamed
- Floodplain infrastructure and the toxic tide / Sanford R. Bender
- Nurses, healthcare, and environmental pollution and solutions: breaking the cycle of harm / A. Elaine McKeown
- Issues with water quality: how do we get our fellow citizens to care? / Rhana Smout Paris
- Design of the education campaign: creating a motivated, environmentally concerned public through improved scientific literacy / M. Chad Smith
- Health professionals can protect water quality: tools for educators, advocates, and practitioners / Rosemary Ziemba [and 4 others]
- Constructed wetlands: description and benefits of an eco-tech water treatment system / Alexandros I. Stefanakis
- Access to safe drinking water: a low income sustainable water purification system / Robert Cecil Willems, Steve A. MacDonald
- On-site sanitation systems for low-income countries: technical guidelines for groundwater pollution and nuisance control / Peter Appiah Obeng [and 6 others]
- Water hyacinth: characteristics, problems, control options, and beneficial uses / Never Mujere