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Water Pollution: A Review

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Emerging Technology for Sustainable Development (EGTET 2022)

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Water is a very important element for living organisms, and it is helpful in the circulation and transmission of nutrients in the biosphere. Due to industrialization, urbanization, and rapid increase in human population, the demand for water has increased sharply, and the quality has declined drastically. Although water has the ability to purify itself, when the concentration of pollutants generated from man-made sources becomes so high that it exceeds the self-purifying ability of water, then the water becomes polluted. Degradation of the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of water by natural and man-made processes in such a way that it is unsuitable for humans and other biological communities. This is called water pollution.

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  1. Environmental Science and Engineering, Bhilai Institute of Technology, Durg, Chhattisgarh, India

    Nandkishore Dadsena

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Bhilai Institute of Technology, Durg, Chhattisgarh, India

    Sindhu J. Nair

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  1. Department of CSE, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India

    Jatindra Kumar Deka

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India

    P. S. Robi

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Assam Don Bosco University, Guwahati, Assam, India

    Bobby Sharma

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Dadsena, N., Nair, S.J. (2024). Water Pollution: A Review. In: Deka, J.K., Robi, P.S., Sharma, B. (eds) Emerging Technology for Sustainable Development. EGTET 2022. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 1061. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4362-3_11

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