Management of Natural Resources in a Changing Environment [Hardcover]

This book addresses issues related to sources of groundwater pollution such as arsenic, uranium, fluoride and their effects on human health. It discusses extensively?the removal of heavy metals,?arsenic and fluoride from drinking water. Bioremediation and phyto remediation on biomass productivity are treated?in several chapters in the book.?The volume highlights?leachate characteristics analysed both in the laboratory and in field studies assessing the trace metals in rainwater.

This book is a study on?the judicious management of natural resources and exposes environmental problems particularly those related to pollution and bioremediation.

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Message from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Foreword
Preface
About the Editors

Section I: Management of Water Resources:Challenges for Sustainability

Hydro-geochemical Investigation and Quality Assessment of Groundwater for Drinking and Agriculture Use in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India
N. Janardhana Raju, Anurag Chaudhary, Sadaf Nazneen, Shubhra Singh and Ankur Goyal

Comparison of Relationship Between the Concentrations of Water Isotopes in Precipitation in the Cities of Tehran (Iran) and New Delhi (India)
Maryam Mosaffa, Farzin Nasiri Saleh and Yousef Khalaj Amirhosseini

Geophysical Expression for Groundwater Quality in Part of Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India
S. Md. Farooq Basha

Geospatial Analysis of Fluoride Contamination in Groundwater of Southeastern Part of Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh
B. Muralidhara Reddy, V. Sunitha and M. Ramakrishna Reddy

Identification of Surface Water Harvesting Sites for Water Stressed Area Using GIS: A Case Study of AusglC×