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Impact of Industrial Wastewater on Environment and Human Health

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Advanced Industrial Wastewater Treatment and Reclamation of Water

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The wastewater generated from different industries is discharged into adjoining environment and water body. Sometimes this wastewater discharged untreated or partially treated. Due to the industrialization in recent years, the environment deterioration is the major issues for consideration in different countries. Wastewater also contains several microorganisms such as virus, bacteria, protozoans, algae that have major public health concerns as these are cause of many waters borne diseases. The untreated wastewaters affect the quality of water in water bodies and human health to entering into trophic levels of food chain. The wastewater effluent may contain certain type of emerging contaminants that have the endocrine disruptive characteristics. Sometimes the discharged water contains certain contaminants which are not removed by the techniques used in that industry also cause harm to environment and public health. The chapter focuses on the impact of industrial wastewater on environment and human health with details.

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Abbreviations

BOD:

Biochemical Oxygen Demand

COD:

Chemical Oxygen Demand

PCP:

Personal Care Products

PhCs:

Pharmaceuticals

PAH:

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon

SS:

Suspended Solids

USEPA:

United State Environmental Protection Agency

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  1. Institute of Environmental Studies, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, 136119, Haryana, India

    Shivani Garg

  2. Nanotechnology & Catalysis Research Centre (NANOCAT), Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS), University of Malaya (UM), 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Zaira Zaman Chowdhury, Abu Nasser Mohammad Faisal, Nelson Pynadathu Rumjit & Paul Thomas

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  1. Department of Chemistry, School of Applied Sciences, K. K. University, Nalanda, Bihar, India

    Swapnila Roy

  2. Department of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India

    Alok Garg

  3. Institute of Environmental Studies, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India

    Shivani Garg

  4. Faculty of Marine Engineering, Vietnam Maritime University, Haiphong, Vietnam

    Tien Anh Tran

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Garg, S., Chowdhury, Z.Z., Faisal, A.N.M., Rumjit, N.P., Thomas, P. (2022). Impact of Industrial Wastewater on Environment and Human Health. In: Roy, S., Garg, A., Garg, S., Tran, T.A. (eds) Advanced Industrial Wastewater Treatment and Reclamation of Water. Environmental Science and Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83811-9_10

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