Monitoring water quality : pollution assessment, analysis, and remediation

Water is the second most important essential material for human survival. Even though Earth is compsed largely of water, fresh water comprises only 3% of the total water available to us. Of that, only 0.06% is easily accessible. To ensure sustainability of water that is safe for drinking, fish, wild...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ahuja, Satinder , 1933- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Elsevier , c2013
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Monitoring water quality, pollution assessment, and remediation to assure sustainability
  • 2. Water quality status and trends in the United States
  • 3. Rivers in Africa are in jeopardy
  • 4. Septic systems in the coastal environment: multiple water quality problems in many areas
  • 5. Thinking outside the box: assessing endocrine disruption in aquatic life
  • 6. Water quality monitoring and environmental risk assessment in a developing coastal region, southeastern North Carolina
  • 7. Analytical measurements to improve nonpoint pollution assessments in Indiana's Lake Michigan watershed
  • 8. Real-time and near real-time monitoring options for water quality
  • 9. Advanced oxidation and reduction process radical generation in the laboratory and on a large scale: an overview
  • 10. Cactus mucilage as an emergency response biomaterial to provide clean drinking water
  • 11. Potable water: nature and purification
  • 12. Removal and immobilization of arsenic in water and soil using polysaccharide-modified magnetite nanoparticles
  • 13. Transforming the arsenic crisis into an economic enterprise: example from Indian villages
  • 14. Monitoring from source to tap: the new paradigm for ensuring water security and quality
  • 15. Evaluation of sustainability strategies