Human exposure risk to heavy metals through groundwater used for drinking in an intensively irrigated river delta

E Vetrimurugan, K Brindha, L Elango… - Applied Water …, 2017 - Springer
Drinking water containing heavy metals above the maximum permissible limits cause
potential risk to human health. The aim of this study was to determine the groundwater …

Treatment technologies for cooling water blowdown: A critical review

M Soliman, F Eljack, MK Kazi, F Almomani, E Ahmed… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cooling water blowdown (CWBD) generated from different industries and district cooling
facilities contains high concentrations of various chemicals (eg, scale and corrosion …

Assessing the ecological health risk in a conserved mangrove ecosystem due to heavy metal pollution: A case study from Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve, India

A Chowdhury, SK Maiti - Human and Ecological Risk Assessment …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve (SBR) is the world's largest contiguous
conserved mangrove forest with unique flora and fauna, but it still has to bear the brunt of …

Dynamics of salinity intrusion in the surface and ground water of Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, India

A Chowdhury, A Naz, S Bhattacharyya… - IOP conference series …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Sundarban is the world's largest transboundary contiguous mangrove ecosystem and home
of the mangrove dwelling tigers. Sea level rise is destabilizing this ecosystem which is …

Human health risk of heavy metal contamination in groundwater and source apportionment

Z Iqbal, F Abbas, A Mahmood, M Ibrahim, M Gul… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
The local community residing in vicinity of cities in Pakistan utilizes groundwater for drinking
purpose. The peri-urban areas of all cities are under wastewater irrigation, a common …

Groundwater contamination with heavy metals in Chennai city, India–A threat to the human population

SR Mahapatra, PM Nimmy - IOP Conference Series: Earth and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The goal of this research was to learn more about heavy metal pollution in groundwater in
North Chennai during the pre-monsoon and post-monsoon seasons. The total no. of 108 …

GIS based evaluation of groundwater quality of Western Lahore using Water Quality Index.

F Imtiaz, I Ahmad, SR Ahmad - Pakistan Journal of …, 2018 - search.ebscohost.com
Water is one of the basic necessities to survive on earth, access to clean drinking water is
the right of every human being but unfortunately water resources are getting polluted due to …

Taming food security through wastewater irrigation practices

Z Ali, RN Malik, A Gul, A Mujeeb-Kazi - Plants, pollutants and remediation, 2015 - Springer
Water scarcity, deteriorating water quality and wastewater irrigation is a regional as well as
global problem affecting human livelihood and economic prosperity in developing countries …

Groundwater Pollution in Urban Areas

F Parvin, MH Shetu, SM Tareq, SM Ahmed - Hydrology and Urban Water …, 2024 - Springer
The access to safe drinking water is a basic human right. Groundwater is the largest and
relatively easily accessible freshwater supply on earth. In the past, groundwater was …

PHYSICOCHEMICAL ASSESSMENT OF SOIL AND DRINKING WATER QUALITY; A CASE STUDY OF URBAN AREA OF GREEN TOWN, LAHORE

F Imtiaz - Pakistan Journal of Science, 2018 - pjosr.com
Environmental quality is greatly focused on water and soil. The purpose of this research was
to assess and compare the ground water and soil quality of Green Town, Lahore with World …