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Rajeev Pratap Singh
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Metalliferous Soil Remediation Through Heavy Metal-Resistant Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria: Prospects and Paradigms
Heavy metals (HMs) are natural assets on the planet, but they have become a serious threat to environmental pollution due to fast industrial enterprise, metropolitanism, and recent technological breakthroughs....
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An Overview on Heavy Metal Contamination of Water System and Sustainable Approach for Remediation
The occurrence of heavy metal(loid)s (HMs) in water systems is a well-recognized threat to public health and biota at global scale due to their higher toxicity even at lower concentration. HMs in aqueous syste...
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Application of Wastewater in Irrigation and Its Regulation with Special Reference to Agriculture Residues
Growing urban agglomeration across the world has promoted unscientific disposal of wastewater. In this view, wastewater exploitation in agriculture is a sustainable way of its utilization. Application of waste...
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Restoration, Construction, and Conservation of Degrading Wetlands: A Step Toward Sustainable Management Practices
In the current scenario, the world is facing various water-related issues, for instance, water shortage, degradation of water resources, pollution of aquatic systems, and proliferation of waterborne diseases. ...
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Industrial Wastewater Footprinting: A Need for Water Security in Indian Context
The continued population expansion with limited resources on the planet earth deteriorated the quality of the environment. To manage the water resources at regional, national and global level, the input-output...
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Bioactive Compost: An Approach for Managing Plant Growth in Environmentally Stressed Soils
The use of bioactive compost for improving the quality of plants and to increase their growth and yield in environmentally stressed soils is a promising approach as they contain beneficial microorganisms as on...
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India’s Major Subsurface Pollutants Under Future Climatic Scenarios: Challenges and Remedial Solutions
Climatic variabilities may alter biogeochemical interactions with the subsurface environment. As of now, arsenic, fluoride, nitrate, NORMs, and hydrocarbon pollutants cover many geographical area of India. It ...
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E-waste and Their Implications on the Environment and Human Health
Rapid influx of modern technology in the past few decades has led to an exponential increase in the usage of the electrical and electronic equipment on a global level. This unprecedented increase, on one hand,...
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Physiological, Biochemical, Growth, and Yield Responses of Radish (Raphanus sativus L.) Plants Grown on Different Sewage Sludge–Fly Ash Mixture (SLASH) Ratios
Agricultural utilization of sewage sludge (SS) and fly ash (FA) can be explored as an alternative and sustainable waste management option to recycle valuable plant nutrients present in both the wastes. A pot e...
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An Insight to Atmospheric Pollution- Improper Waste Management and Climate Change Nexus
Urbanization and industrialization along with expansion of the cities, extract resources indiscriminately in order to provide better access to food security, education, health and employment. However, accompan...
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Biomethanation Potential of Algal Biomass
For meeting the ever increasing demands of energy in domestic as well as industrial sector, biomethanation from algal biomass could be an environmentally sound option for promoting renewable and sustainable so...
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Prospects of Biomethanation in Indian Urban Solid Waste: Step** Towards a Sustainable Future
Industrialization and urbanization together have a cumulative effect on generating significant amounts of urban solid waste which leads to increasing threats to the environment. India with a population of abou...
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Biological Responses of Agricultural Soils to Fly-Ash Amendment
Increased urbanization and industrialization worldwide has resulted in increased releases of solid waste, and enhanced environmental pollution around the globe. There are several categories of solid waste and ...
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Fly Ash for Agriculture: Implications for Soil Properties, Nutrients, Heavy Metals, Plant Growth and Pest Control
Annual fly ash production ranges from 2 MT in the Netherlands to 112 MT in India, whereas fly ash utilisation ranges from 100% in the Netherlands to 38% in India. Over the past few decades there has been inter...
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Land Application of Sewage Sludge: Physicochemical and Microbial Response
As a result of rapid urbanization, industrialization, and uncontrolled population increase, waste management has become a worldwide problem. In the 2001 census, the urban population of India comprised 285 mill...
