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Water Pollution
Water pollution encompasses the contamination, degradation, or modification of water bodies due to the introduction of harmful substances or...
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Cyanobacteria as Bioindicator of Water Pollution
Water pollution is a global problem in recent times, and its remedy has become imperative to safeguard the health of ecosystems and humans. To solve...
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Monitoring of Nutrient Pollution in Water
Organisms depend upon nutrients for survival, growth, and reproduction. Autotrophs rely upon inorganic nutrients (carbon dioxide, nitrate, and...
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Assessments of the impacts of chemical and hydrocarbon pollution on Ologe Lagoon water and its prokaryotic community structure
Ologe Lagoon, in Lagos State Nigeria, is one of the freshwaters exposed to chemical and hydrocarbon pollution. The impacts of anthropogenic pollution...
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Soil Pollution
Soil pollution has emerged as a critical environmental concern, impacting soil fertility, ecosystems, and human health. While natural sources like...
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Air Pollution
Air pollution is a pressing global issue that profoundly impacts human health, ecosystems, and overall quality of life. This chapter provides a...
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Assessment of pollution state of Beira Lake in Sri Lanka using water quality index, trophic status, and principal component analysis
Beira Lake, in the heart of Colombo City in Sri Lanka, is a prominent landmark, serving a variety of important services such as flood control, and...
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Heavy Metal Pollution in Water: Cause and Remediation Strategies
Contamination by heavy metals and metalloids in water resources, soil, and air is one of the most severe problems that compromise food and water...
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Is Water Pollution the Only Cause of Abnormalities of the Attachment Clamps of Monogeneans (Diplozoidae), a Parasite of Freshwater Fishes?
AbstractA comparative study of the haptoral morphology of three diplozoon species (Monogenea: Diplozoidae) from the gills of fish from polluted water...
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Advancing potential of diatom indicators for stream and lake water quality assessment against nutrient-induced pollution
Algae have a long history of use in indicating ecological condition of streams and lakes. Various algae-based indicators have been developed and used...
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Impacts of Nutrient Pollution
Nutrient pollution refers to overloading of aquatic environs by excessive influx of nutrients. Every creature has to taste death. The aging of...
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Heavy Metal Pollution in Water: Cause and Remediation Strategies
Heavy metals are naturally present in earth’s crust, and some of them are essential to living organisms for carrying out life processes. Due to their...
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Pollution in Freshwater: Impact and Prevention
Water is the life blood of all living things and the most important natural resource on the earth planet. The water is available in liquid, solid and...
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Industrial Pollution Management Approach
Every industry uses water in its operations and hence produces wastewater, also called industrial effluent. Industrial effluent contains inorganic...
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Water Governance Transitions Pathway: Adaptive Water Governance
Climate change is adversely impacting all three pillars of sustainability (Environment, Economic, and Social). Arguably, the most impacted natural...
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Macrophytes as a Sustainable Biomonitoring Tool Sustainable of Aquatic Pollution
Inorganic and organic contaminants pollute streams daily. Pollution and other manmade disruptions change aquatic ecosystems. Water pollution may come...
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Water Resources
Water resources encompass diverse habitats, including oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, and groundwater, supporting a wide array of organisms and...
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Non-Specific Animal Esterases as Biomarkers of Pesticide Pollution of Aquatic Ecosystems (Review)
AbstractPollution of water resources with pesticides negatively affects aquatic organisms and makes water bodies unsuitable for use by humans....
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Assessment of Bacterial Pollution of Closed Galvanic-Production Water-Supply Systems
Abstract —This work is devoted to an assessment of the bacterial contamination of drainage systems in galvanic production. In the course of the study,...
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Confirmation of the Finding on Increased Resistance of Paleolimnic Invertebrates to Anthropogenic Water Pollution
AbstractThe sensitivity of Cladocera (Crustacea) species to anthropogenic pollution is compared and an attempt is made to explain the differences in...
