Contamination of Water: Chapter 7 - Contamination of groundwater resources by pesticides

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Contamination of Water, Health Risk Assessment and Treatment Strategies, 2021, Pages 99-107
Pesticides have the potential to contaminate groundwater resources and have become a serious concern worldwide. In this chapter, we have discussed the mechanism of pesticide pollution along with its trajectory from the land surface into aquifers. Additionally, the harmful effects of pesticides on human health and promising remedies for reducing pesticide pollution have also been discussed.
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Contamination of Water: Chapter 4 - Current scenario of heavy metal contamination in water

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Contamination of Water, Health Risk Assessment and Treatment Strategies, 2021, Pages 49-64
This chapter highlights important implications of the field such as permissible limits of heavy metals in water systems, major sources of aquatic heavy metal pollution, impact of heavy metal contamination on aquatic life, human health and environment, loss of resources in form of heavy metals, prominent strategies adopted to tackle the problem, recent advancement in treatment technologies for heavy metal contaminated wastewater, and future aspects.
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Contamination of Water: Chapter 18 - Pharmaceuticals and personal care products: occurrence, detection, risk, and removal technologies in aquatic environment

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Contamination of Water, Health Risk Assessment and Treatment Strategies, 2021, Pages 265-284
This chapter examines how PPCPs are often termed as micropollutants or trace organics, as these compounds are present in the µg/L range in the environment. PPCPs may pose a serious threat to aquatic life, having acute and chronic toxicity responses. As a result, there is a need for evolving technologies to detect, identify, and remediate compounds from these micropollutants.
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Handbook of Water Purity and Quality, Second Edition - Chapter 1: Overview: modern water purity and quality

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Handbook of Water Purity and Quality, Second Edition, 2021.
This book chapter advances SDGs 6 and 11 by providing information on various sources of pollution and ways to monitor them. Assuring water quality and purity is extremely important because water is an essential material for human survival.
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Bioenergy, Second Edition: Chapter 41 - Integrated agroecological technology networks for food, bioenergy, and biomaterial production "

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Samuel M. Gorton, Chapter 41 - Integrated agroecological technology networks for food, bioenergy, and biomaterial production, Editor(s): Anju Dahiya, Bioenergy (Second Edition), Academic Press, 2020, Pages 767-788, ISBN 9780128154977, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-815497-7.00041-5.
This book chapter advances SDGs 6, 7 and 11 by discussing how we can create integrated ecological technologies that transform natural resources into anthropocentric goods and services, while restoring the land and reducing pollution by returning beneficial materials or energy to the ecosystem.
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Water Conservation in the Era of Global Climate Change - Chapter 5 - An overview of the potential impacts of global climate change on water resources

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Aaditya Chaturvedi, Bhanu Pandey, Aneet Kumar Yadav, Shubham Saroj,
Chapter 5 - An overview of the potential impacts of global climate change on water resources,
Editor(s): Binota Thokchom, Pengpeng Qiu, Pardeep Singh, Parameswar K. Iyer,
Water Conservation in the Era of Global Climate Change,
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2021,
Pages 99-120,
ISBN 9780128202005
This chapter advances SDG 6 and SDG 13 by highlighting the connection between climate change and water resources. It describes some of the most sinificant efforts taken to mitigate climate change.
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Biomass, Biofuels, Biochemicals: Circular Bioeconomy - Current Status and Future Outlook - Chapter 5: Environmental Impacts of Recovery of Resources From Industrial Wastewater

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Biomass, Biofuels, Biochemicals, Circular Bioeconomy - Current Status and Future Outlook, 2021, Pages 121-162
This book chapteradvances SDG 6 by focusing on the environmental impacts of the recovery of resources from industrial wastewater from different aspects such as water resources, aquatic life protection, greenhouse gas reduction, sustainable agriculture, human health, and environmental economics. Finally, the contribution of the recovery of resources in circular bioeconomy is discussed.
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Water Conservation in the Era of Global Climate Change - Chapter 2: Groundwater extractions and climate change

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Water Conservation in the Era of Global Climate Change, 2021, Pages 23-45
This chapter advances SDG 6 by presenting major challenges and opportunities concerning groundwater utilization and climate sustainability.
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Sorbents Materials for Controlling Environmental Pollution - Chapter 4 - Current situation and future prospects for the production and utilization of sorbing materials for water depollution in North Africa

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Sorbents Materials for Controlling Environmental Pollution, 2021, Pages 49-71
This chapter advances SDG 6 by presenting a case study for depollution of water, which contributes to achieving clean water in North Africa.
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Sorbents Materials for Controlling Environmental Pollution - Chapter 7 - Date pits activated carbon as an effective adsorbent for water treatment

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Sorbents Materials for Controlling Environmental Pollution, 2021, Pages 135-161
This chapter advances SDG 6 by offering a technique for water treatment, with emphasis on date pits (DP) availability, chemical composition, and activated carbon (AC) preparation methods from DP.
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