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Safety Concerns and Consequences of Cloud Seeding Implications—A Systematic Review

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Advances in Waste Management (AIR 2021)

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The cloud seeding process is the most common weather modification technique carried out extensively since its invention in the 1950s. There are various benefits of cloud seeding that have helped many countries facing a severe loss of rain and scarcity of drinking water, but the repetitive and prolonged usage of the existing cloud seeding methods carries potential risks along with it that can be toxic, harmful and have effects on the metrology of a region. The risks associated with various chemicals are discussed along with the metrological data showing the harms caused and improvement in rainfall following the Cloud seeding method. These changes were deeply discussed, and the necessity for alternate seeding materials or alternate methods is focused on in this paper to consider the motto of environmental protection.

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    Akshi Kunwar Singh, B. Abhijith & Leelakant Dewangan

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  1. Centre of Excellence in Occupational Health, Safety, Fire and Environment, GD Goenka University, Sohna, Haryana, India

    N. A. Siddiqui

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

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Singh, A.K., Abhijith, B., Dewangan, L. (2023). Safety Concerns and Consequences of Cloud Seeding Implications—A Systematic Review. In: Siddiqui, N.A., Baxtiyarovich, A.S., Nandan, A., Mondal, P. (eds) Advances in Waste Management. AIR 2021. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 301. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7506-6_2

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