About the Book
Water pollution is a well recognized problem for over a half century now as it is harming our freshwater sources, food supplies, animals, plants, environment and marine ecosystem. An intentional or accidental discharge of toxic chemicals, materials, contaminants and harmful compounds in lakes, rivers or oceans causing alteration in physical, chemical and biological characteristics of water that may in turn produce harmful effects on living organisms or make water unsuitable for desired purposes is called water pollution. The major sources of water pollution are domestic effluents, sewage disposal, plastics, garbage from construction sites, animal waste, chemical fertilizers and pesticides, industrial waste water, thermal pollution from factories and power plants, heavy metals such as lead, cadmium and mercury, leakage from landfills, mining activities, radioactive waste, oil slicks and marine dumping. The water pollution may cause water-borne diseases such as diarrhea, trachoma, intestinal worms, hepatitis, jaundice, etc. and even death. In addition to being harmful to humans, water pollution greatly affects plant life, land animals and aquatic creatures as well. Increased public awareness, stringent environment laws and polluter pays principle are the three fundamentals usually agreed upon by most environmental experts to help tackle this problem. The present volume of the series discusses these and several other issues pertaining to water pollution and waste water treatment at length. This volume includes discussion on the following topics: o Water quality parameters o Water quality and eutrophication: Fate of freshwater in Asia o Types and treatment of water pollution o Groundwater pollution: Human and natural sources and risks o Marine pollution o Innovative treatment technology for municipal wastewater o Hybrid metal oxide semiconductors for waste water treatment o Microorganisms for wastewater purification and reuse of water and sludge o Microalgae utilization for removal of emerging contaminants in wastewater o Ultra filtration behaviour of organic mixtures simulating Sweetwater solutions o Treatment of tequila vinasse in an inverse fluidized bed bioreactor o Transformation and removal of metals in metallurgical plants effluents o Sorption wastewater treatment from metal ions using modified phosphate dolomite o Modified textile fibers for waste water treatment o Arsenic removal from industrial effluents through ferric arsenate precipitation o Development of integrated methodology for fouling control in membrane bioreactors o Membrane bioreactor and osmotic membrane bioreactor for wastewater treatment o Levels, sources and trends of oil pollution in northern Caspian o Response of macrophysics and their role in constructed wetlands o Low-cost activated carbon biosorbents for removal of toxic dyes from wastewater o Advances in application of chatoyant in biosorption of heavy metals from waste waters This volume contains 21 articles authored by 66 researchers and/or academicians from 14 nations, namely Argentina, Belarus, Brazil, China, Greece, India, Iran, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan and United Kingdom presenting a glimpse of the various research activities being carried out in different parts of the world in the field of Water Pollution and Waste Water Treatment.
About the Author :
Mr Jagdish Chand Singhal, a Charted Engineer & BE(Civil), ME (Environment), both from lIT Roorkee. Served for 39 years in UP Jal Nigam, finally retired working as Chief Engineer, Level-I. Carried out number of prestigious works during his carrier which include Maha-Kumbh Mela projects of Allahabad & Hardwar, Ganga Action Plan & Gigantic Lucknow Water Supply & Sewerage projects. Currently working as Senior Consultant in Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation, GOI on a WORLD BANK Project. Rich experience/expert in the field of Water, Sewerage, Solid Waste Management, River Pollution Control, Rain Water Harvesting, Recycle & Reuse and NRW Studies & Analysis. Fellow of Institution of Engineers(India), Fellow Institution of Water & Environment (India), Fellow of Indian Water Works Association, Life Member of IIT Roorkee Alumni Association, Life Member of Indian Building Congress, Environment Committee Memberof PHD Chamber, Life Member Kabir Peace Mission and many other organizations. Melvin John Fellow of Lions Clubs International. Organized more than a 40 seminars and technical activities besides Annual Conventions of IWWA in 1999 successfully. Number of technical papers published in leading Journals. Chaired technical sessions in several seminars. Widely Travelled UK, USA, Austrailia, Japan, Canada, SouthKorea, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh & Nepal to enhance technical and managerial capabilities. Awarded British Council of TCTP Award for special course on Environmental Engineering in UK. He is National President of Institution of Water & Environment (INDIA), Council Member & Former Chairman of Environmental Engineering Division Board of Institution of Engineers (India) & Governing Council Member of Indian Building Congress. Sri Singhal is also member of Board of Governor to a number of Engineering Institutions of our Country. He has been honored with numberof prestigious award by different organizations for his outstanding contributions in social and engineering field.
Dr. Umesh Chandra Sharma is associated with Department of Chemical Engineering, University Institute of Engineering and Technology, C S J M University, Kanpur since 1999. For a brief period, he was associated with University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun. He did his B.Tech. and M.Tech. from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur in 1995 and 1999, respectively and currently at final stage of his PhD from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad. His research area includes rheological behaviours of petroleum products and synthesis and characterization of biofuels and biolubricants. UCS has 1 book, 5 papers, 6 book chapters and widely acclaimed 12 volume edited series Energy Science and Technology published by Studium PressLLC, USA to his credit. He was editorial board member of Nanotechnology series published by same publisher. He has organized 1 international conference, 2 national conferences, attended 25 short-term courses, presented papers in 9 national/international conferences/workshops and delivered 18 invited lectures including one video lecture. Apart from teaching and technical writing, he enjoys writing poems, short stories and novels; reading spiritual literature and world history and playing violin.He is a great lover of western classic music of Richard Wagner and Ludwigvan Beethoven. UCS is a life member of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE), Oil Technologist Association of India (OTAI) and Indian Association of Nuclear Chemists and Allied Scientists (IANCAS). He has served IIChE-KRC as Vice-Chairman in year 2011-12, Secretary in 2004-07, 2009-11 and 2012-13 and Joint Secretary in 2007-08. He was HonorarySecretary of Central Zone of OTAI for the period 2013-15 and currently holding position of Honorary Treasurer for period 2015-17. UCS can be reached at uc_sharma@hotmail.com.
