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Water toxicants: a comprehension on their health concerns, detection, and remediation
Water is an essential moiety for the human use since a long time. Availability of good-quality water is very essential, as it is used in almost all...
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Metals as toxicants in event-based expedited production of children’s jewelry
Globally, the hazardous substance in children’s goods is of great concern. Toxic chemicals are potentially harmful to the health and growth of...
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Evaluation of Pesticides in Wastewaters. A Combined (Chemical and Biological) Analytical Approach
The current status of the analysis of pesticides in wastewater by chromatographic techniques and toxicity bioassays is reviewed and evaluated. When...
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Organic toxicants and emerging contaminants in hospital interiors before and during the SARS-CoV2 pandemic: alkanes and PAHs
Indoor pollution and deposition dust (DD), in particular, are acquiring concern, due to long exposure time and importance of intake by humans through...
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Hidden Hunger and Hidden Danger: Regional Gradients in Rice Grain Nutrient Elements, Vitamins B and E and Toxicants Arsenic and Cadmium Along a North–South Transect of Western Bangladesh
Here is presented a study to investigate the geographic variation in rice grain nutrients (trace and macro-elements and vitamins) and toxicants...
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Recent Trends in Rapid Environmental Monitoring of Toxicants Using Nanobiosensors
The previous research has focussed on detecting pathogens in real-world environmental models. The combined use of nanoparticles with devices will...
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Toxicological characteristics of drinking water in two large-scale municipal water supply systems of a metropolitan city in Central China
Drinking water safety is threatened by numerous toxic organic pollutants difficult to chemically monitor. This study aimed to determine the...
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Genomically Enhanced Microorganisms (GEMs): Biological Gems in the Maintenance of the Equilibrium Endurance of the Ecosystem
Imprudent and indiscriminate release of industrial effluents directly into aquatic bodies, soil, and air causes harm to the environment and...
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Criteria for the Selection of a Proper Enantiomer-Selective Analytical Method
During the past two decades and after the first edition of this monograph was published in 2001, tremendous progress has been made with respect to...
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Pharmaceutical Pollutants in Water: Origin, Toxicity Hazards, and Treatment
Medicines are immensely playing an essential role in protecting human and animal health. Pharmaceuticals are categorized into myriad therapeutic...
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Heat shock protein 70 reflected the state of inhabited fish response to water quality within lake ecosystem
Heat shock proteins are natural biomarker that plays a vital role in genetic variability and adaptive survival in organisms under environmental...
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Validation of an FT-IR microscopy method for the monitorization of microplastics in water for human consumption in Portugal: Lisbon case study
The growing anthropogenic contamination of natural water by microplastics (MPs) confirms the urgent need to preserve this precious resource. MPs are...
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Cocamidopropyl betaine — a potential source of nitrogen-containing disinfection by-products in pool water
Water treatment for most public pools involves disinfection with active chlorine leading to the formation of disinfection by-products (DBPs). Among...
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Microscale Toxicity Identification Evaluation (TIE) for interstitial water of estuarine sediments affected by multiple sources of pollution
Estuaries in the world are affected by different contamination sources related to urbanisation and port/industrial activities. Identifying the...
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Investigation of the impact of municipal solid waste disposal site leachate on surface water resources in Hosanna Town, Ethiopia
Surface water resources are the most precious, yet they are also the most vulnerable to pollution. Consequently, maintaining the sustainability of...
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Untreated wastewater impact and environmental risk assessment of artificial sweeteners in river water and sediments of the Danube River Basin in Serbia
Artificial sweeteners are receiving increasing attention as newly recognized emerging contaminants that mainly reach the aquatic environment through...
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Sediment–water exchange and risk assessment of pesticidal persistent organic pollutants in Bharathappuzha and Periyar Riverine region along the Arabian Sea
Considering the extensive agricultural practices along the perennial rivers, viz. Periyar and Bharathappuzha of Kerala in the southwest coast of...
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Ganga river water quality assessment using combined approaches: physico-chemical parameters and cyanobacterial toxicity detection with special reference to microcystins and molecular characterization of microcystin synthetase (mcy) genes carrying cyanobacteria
Water quality assessment relies mostly on physico-chemical-based characterization; however, eutrophication and climate change advocate the abundance...
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Assessment of influence of heavy metal, organochlorine pesticide, and bacterial presence on water quality of Gomti river, India
Sustainable ecosystem is of essence to the river for its survival and maintenance of ecological balance. Gomti river, a groundwater-fed tributary of...
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Safeguarding drinking water: A brief insight on characteristics, treatments and risk assessment of contamination
Water pollution stands as a critical worldwide concern, bearing extensive repercussions that extend to human health and the natural ecosystem. The...
