Overview
- Addresses the challenges posed by global mass poisoning from arsenic water contamination
- Synthesizes research in environmental sciences, management, sustainability, public health and policy
- Presents case studies in Pakistan and India to discuss prediction models and policy recommendations for mitigating arsenic contamination
Part of the book series: Advances in Water Security (AWS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Ground water arsenic contamination
- Red river basin
- Aquatic ecosystem transport
- Arsenic exposure health risks
- Sustainable arsenic mitigation
- GIS water analysis
- Remote sensing water quality
- Rural Bangladesh
- Arsenic policy in India
- Indus river basin
- Water pollution source tracking
- water quality and water pollution
About this book
Part one of the book describes the issue of arsenic contamination in ground water and river basins, including its source and distribution in specific locations in India. Part two explains the routes of exposure to environmental arsenic, its transport in aquatic ecosystems, and the health risks linked to arsenic exposure in food and the environment. Part three addresses sustainable arsenic contamination mitigation strategies and policies, the socioeconomic, demographic, cultural and psychological aspects of arsenic contamination, and the potential applications of GIS and remote sensing in providing solutions. Part four concludes by discussing the role of local and regional institutions in water resources management for a variety of issues including but not limited to arsenic contamination, and presents a case study in the Indus river basin in Pakistan to propose future contamination mitigation strategies.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ali Fares is the Interim Vice President of Research, Innovation, and Sponsored Programs and Professor of Water Security at Prairie View A&M University, Texas. He is currently the editor of the Water Security Book Series and edited two books. In addition, he published 14 book chapters, over 20 conference proceedings, and over 74 articles in peer reviewed journals. His research interests include disaster preparedness and resiliency, flood prediction and mitigation, water security, water-energy-food nexus, watershed hydrology and management, water allocation, irrigation management, and adaptation and mitigation of climate variability.
Dr. Sushant Singh is the lead artificial intelligence and machine learning scientist in the Department of Health, Insurance and Life Sciences at Virtusa Corporation, New York. He earned two PhD degrees: one in Environmental Science from India and another in Environmental Management in the US. He authored more than 30 peer reviewed journal articles, two books, three book chapters, two conference proceedings, one encyclopedia entry, and over 25 international presentations. His research interests include the application of artificial intelligence in health, insurance, life sciences, and environmental sustainability.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Arsenic Water Resources Contamination
Book Subtitle: Challenges and Solutions
Editors: Ali Fares, Sushant K. Singh
Series Title: Advances in Water Security
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21258-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-21257-5Published: 15 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-21260-5Published: 15 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-21258-2Published: 02 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2523-3572
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3580
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 305
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 53 illustrations in colour
Topics: Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Health Policy, Waste Management/Waste Technology, Environmental Health