"Legacy Pathogenic And Emerging Contaminants In The Environment | Balkema Reference Books

This is the time when legacy pathogenic and emerging contaminants must be talked about understood and dealt with together. While the geogenic contamination of the groundwater is a well-established phenomenon that is considered as legacy contaminants that risk people’s health globally both pathogenic and emerging contaminants like various water-borne pathogens and pharmaceutical personal care products (PPCPs) are becoming imperative for their acute and chronic toxic effects. While contaminated groundwater consumption leads to skin pigmentation hyperkeratosis kidney damage cardiovascular disease and children’s overall development poor sanitation-related pathogenic microorganisms cause a significant number of child and prenatal deaths. Simultaneously antibiotic microbial resistance (AMR) is expected to kill 100 million people by 2050. However there are rare texts that combine aspects of all these three under a single book cover. This book gives an understanding of the occurrence fate and transport of geogenic microbial and anthropogenic contaminants in the groundwater. It covers not only the scientific and technical aspects but also environmental legal and policy aspects for contaminant management in the environment under the paradigm shift of COVID-19. This book is intended to bring the focus on the natural contaminants-biotic or abiotic-in the post-COVID Anthropocene which is illustrating a significant alteration of systems and the subsequent downstream impacts owing to globalization. This book has compiled global work on emergence mass flow partitioning and activation of geogenic emerging and pathogenic contaminants in various spheres of environment with special emphasis on soil sediment and aquatic systems for enhancing the understanding on their migration and evolution for the welfare of mankind. |Legacy Pathogenic and Emerging Contaminants in the Environment | Balkema Reference Books