ABSTRACT
Decades of environmentally detrimental anthropogenic activities, such as urbanization, industrialization, deforestation, combustion of fossil fuels and improper agricultural and mining practices, along with gross neglect of the environment, have resulted in this current perturbing state of the world. Metal pollution may result from point sources such as industrial discharges, or from nonpoint
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