ABSTRACT
With an increased demand for wastewater reuse, groundwater recharge with treated wastewater has been practiced across the globe. As a result, groundwater quality deteriorates by emerging micropollutants from various anthropogenic origins, including untreated wastewater, seepage of landfill leachate, and runoff from agricultural lands. The fate of such emerging and geogenic contaminants in subsurface systems, especially in the groundwater, depends on several factors. Physicochemical properties of contaminants such as octanol-water partition coefficient, dissociation constant, water solubility, susceptibility to biodegradation under anaerobic conditions, and environmental persistence under diverse geological and pH conditions play a critical role during subsurface mass flow. Thus, advanced wastewater treatment techniques, followed by implementing stricter guidelines, are some of the measures that can safeguard water resources.
This book, in general, gives an understanding of the fate and mitigation strategies for emerging and geogenic contaminants in the groundwater. The first and second sections provide a detailed insight into various removal techniques and mitigation approaches. Possible treatment strategies, including bioremediation and natural attenuation, are also covered in those sections. Environmental assessment, groundwater vulnerability, health effects, and regulations pertaining to various contaminants are systematically presented in the third section.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section 1|119 pages
Mitigation strategies for emerging contaminants
chapter Chapter 1|21 pages
Occurrence, fate, and plasma treatment of emerging contaminants in groundwater
chapter Chapter 4|28 pages
Advanced treatment technologies for removal of contaminants of emerging concern
chapter Chapter 5|19 pages
Advanced oxidation process for removal of emerging contaminants in water and sustainable approaches
part Section 2|164 pages
Removal of geo- and anthropo-genic contaminants
chapter Chapter 6|27 pages
Solid waste and landfill leachate
chapter Chapter 8|29 pages
Nanostructured adsorbents for uranium removal from drinking water
chapter Chapter 9|19 pages
Fluoride contamination and abatement measures
chapter Chapter 11|28 pages
Concern for heavy metal ion water pollution
part Section 3|144 pages
Environmental assessment pathways, and socio-ecosystem framework