1st Edition
Legacy, Pathogenic and Emerging Contaminants in the Environment
Section 1 Distribution, occurrence, and fate of emerging contaminants
1. Occurrence and fate of emerging contaminants in groundwater
Anshula Dhiman, Stuti Kushwaha, and A.L. Ramanathan
2. Occurrence, sources, and the fate of antibiotics, antibiotic-resistant bacteria and their resistance genes in groundwater and subsurface environment
Sasikaladevi R, Kiruthika Eswari V, Govindaraj Divyapriya, Ramya Srinivasan, and Indumathi M. Nambi
3. Fate and transport of micro- and nanoplastics in graywater, fresh and marine water systems
G. Sruthi, S. Aishwarya, Samarshi Chakraborty, S. Karthika, G. Divyapriya, and K. Sivagami
4. Solid waste and landfill leachate: The transient sources of emerging microbes and legacy contaminants for groundwater pollution
Trinath Biswal and Krushna Prasad Shadangi
5. Emerging groundwater contaminants: Their manifestation and consequences
Shreeja Datta, Arpita Roy, and Suresh Ghotekar
Section 2 Techniques to study the fate, transport and removal of microbial contaminants
6. Assessment of microbial load removal potential of vertical constructed wetland systems treating dairy farm wastewater
Deepa Minakshi, Swati Singh, Pradeep Kumar Sharma, Anju Rani, and Piyush Malaviya
7. Occurrence and fate of viruses in water
Muskan Chakraborty, Saumya Vyas, Unnati Bhalerao, Abhranil Gangopadhayya, Manjita Srivastava, Muneesh Kumar Barman, Kailash Chand, Sai Tejaswi Lavuri, Meenakshi Singh, and Prudhvilal Bhukya
8. Microbial indicators and methods for source tracking faecal contamination of groundwater
Salonee Martins, Aishwarya Pathare, Purva Salvi, Unnati Bhalerao, Mahalaxmi U Bhat, Meenakshi Singh, Muneesh Kumar Barman, Kailash Chand, Sai Tejaswi Lavuri, Nitish Venkateswarlu Mogili, Sanjeeb Mohapatra, Umesh Kumar, Ujjawal Sharma, Manjita Srivastava, and Prudhvilal Bhukya
9. Pathways for migration of microbial and organic contaminants: Special emphasis on run-off from aquaculture industries
M. Divyagnaneswari and Parasuraman Aiya Subramani
10. Analysis of emerging microbial contaminants through next-generation sequencing
Shubha Rani Sharma, Avinash Singh, Neha Singh, Amit Prasad, and Vinod Kumar Nigam
Section 3 Environmental and health risk of anthropogenic and geogenic contaminants
11. Emerging contaminants of potential concern in aquatic Ecosystem: Fate and transport in microalgae
Sarat Chandra T., Madhu Balaji C. K., and Ramesh Babu P.
12. Contaminants of emerging concerns and advanced treatment technologies
Neha Garg and Akshay Jakhete
13. Occurrence and fate of phenolic compounds in groundwater and their associated risks
Vijay Laxmi Mohanta and Brijesh Kumar Mishra
14. Sustainable governance of groundwater as drinking water in the post-COVID-19 world: An urban water security perspective
Subham Mukherjee, Pradip Kumar Sikdar, and Sukdeb Pal
15. Comprehensive understanding of fate, transport and consequences of contaminants of emerging concerns (CECs) in urban environment
Shivaraju Harikaranahalli Puttaiah, Yashas Shivamurthy Ravindra, Prabagar Jijoe Samuel, Sneha Yadav, and Aiswarya Cholayampara Murukadasan
Biography
Dr. Manish Kumar is an assistant professor at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India.
Prof. Meththika Vithanage is working at the Ecosphere Resilience Research Centre, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka.
Dr. Sanjeeb Mohapatra works at the Environmental Research Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore.
Dr. Kishor Acharya is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Engineering, Newcastle University, UK, specialized in public health engineering.
