Monitoring water quality : pollution assessment, analysis, and remediation / Satinder Ahuja.
| Author/creator | Ahuja, Satinder, 1933- author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, ©2013. |
| Description | 1 online resource (xiv, 378 pages) : illustrations |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 1. Monitoring water quality, pollution assessment, and remediation to assure sustainability / Satinder (Sut) Ahuja -- 2. Water quality status and trends in the United States / Matthew C. Larsen, Pixie A. Hamilton, William H. Werkheiser -- 3. Rivers in Africa are in jeopardy / Shem O. Wandiga -- 4. Septic systems in the coastal environment : multiple water quality problems in many areas / Michael A. Mallin -- 5. Thinking outside the box : assessing endocrine disruption in aquatic life / Susanne M. Brander -- 6. Water quality monitoring and environmental risk assessment in a developing coastal region, southeastern North Carolina / Lawrence B. Cahoon, Michael A. Mallin -- 7. Analytical measurements to improve nonpoint pollution assessments in Indiana's Lake Michigan watershed / Julie R. Peller [and three others] -- 8. Real-time and near real-time monitoring options for water quality / Natalie Linklater, Banu Ormeci -- 9. Advanced oxidation and reduction process radical generation in the laboratory and on a large scale : an overview / Stephen P. Mezyk [and five others] -- 10. Cactus mucilage as an emergency response biomaterial to provide clean drinking water / Daniela Stebbins [and four others] -- 11. Potable water : nature and purification / Abul Hussam -- 12. Removal and immobilization of arsenic in water and soil using polysaccharide-modified magnetite nanoparticles / Qiqi Liang, Byungryul An, Dongye Zhao -- 13. Transforming the arsenic crisis into an economic enterprise : example from Indian villages / Sudipta Sarkar, Anirban Gupta, Arup K. SenGupta -- 14. Monitoring from source to tap : the new paradigm for ensuring water security and quality / Dan Kroll -- 15. Evaluation of sustainability strategies / Taha Marhaba, Ashish Borgaonkar. |
| Abstract | Water is the second most important essential material for human survival. Even though Earth is composed 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, wildlife, industry, irrigation, and recreation, it is critical to explore water quality in greater detail. Over the last 10 years, improved laboratory techniques have led to the discovery of microbial and viral contaminants, pharmaceuticals, and endocrine disruptors in our water that were not moniterd previously. This book cover at length the following topics: water quality issue (natural and human-related), monitoring contaminants (including pharmaceutcal and endocrinedisruptor'ss) and remediation of water contamination. deals with water, the second most essential ingredient to sustain our life. discusses methods for monitoring a variety of water contaminants describes variousproblemss and solutions for sustainability of water quality worldwide. up-to-date information on new chemicals and their environmental impacts is a paramount in such a changing environment. covers the continual influx of new pollutants into the environment, as well as new pollutant impacts continually being found from existing chemicals in use provides up-to-date information on prevalence, analysis, and treatment critically needed by scientists and regulators. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from PDF title page (ScienceDirect, viewed on Feb. 18, 2013). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Ahuja, Satinder, 1933- Monitoring water quality. Kidlington, Oxford : Elsevier, [2013] 9780444593955 |
| Genre/form | Electronic book. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0444594043 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9780444594044 (electronic bk.) |
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