Evaluating Water Quality to Prevent Future Disasters

A single resource to help readers solve water contamination problems and develop new approaches to monitoring water contamination

Satinder Ahuja (Volume editor)

9780128157305

Paperback, published 24 May 2019

456 pages
23.4 x 19 x 2.9 cm, 0.93 kg

Approx.442 pages

1. Overview: Evaluating Water Quality to Prevent Future Disasters 2. The Heat Is On: Complexities of Aquatic Endocrine Disruption in a Changing Global Climate 3. Impact of Persistent Droughts on the Quality of the Middle East Water Resources 4. Present and Potential Water Quality Challenges in India 5. Arsenic Contamination in South Asian Regions: the Difficulties, Challenges and Vision for the Future 6. Cyanobacteria and Their Toxins 7. Educational Partnerships Combined with Research on Emerging Pollutants for Long-Term Water-Quality Monitoring 8. Evaluation of the Toxicity of the Deepwater Horizon Oil and Associated Dispersant on Early Life Stages of the Eastern Oyster 9. Analytical Methods for the Comprehensive Characterization of Produced Water 10. Innovations in Monitoring with Water-Quality Sensors with Case Studies on Floods, Hurricanes, and Harmful Algal Blooms 11. Biosensors for Monitoring Water Pollutants: a Case Study with Arsenic in Groundwater 12. Investigating the Missing Link: Effects of Noncompliance and Aging Private Infrastructure on Water-Quality Monitoring 13. GenX Contamination of the Cape Fear River, North Carolina: Analytical Environmental Chemistry Uncovers Multiple System Failures 14. Analysis of GenX and Other Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Environmental Water Samples 15. Sustainable Magnetically Retrievable Nanoadsorbents for Selective Removal of Heavy Metal Ions from Different Charged Wastewaters 16. Lessons Learned from Water Disasters of the World

Subject Areas: Water supply & treatment [TQSW], Pollution & threats to the environment [RNP], The environment [RN], Analytical chemistry [PNF]