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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Amsterdam :
Elsevier ,
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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