Abstract
Water is not only the most essential source of our day-to-day life, but the development of this natural resource also plays a crucial role in economic and social development processes. Waste disposal has become a worldwide problem for increased environmental awareness, for more rigorous environmental standards and dewatering challenges. Therefore, water quality management is a great work controlled by monitoring of discharge and various effluents. World health organization has issued guidelines for drinking water quality, its contaminants and how to handle water supplies in small rural communities. Qualitative and quantitative measurements are needed from time to time to constantly monitor the quality of water from the various sources of supply. This chapter highlights different water quality assessments, several sources of water pollutions and the methods used for treating water for various purposes such as for drinking, industrial water supply, irrigation, water recreation or many other uses.
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The authors acknowledge Prof. Sunita Rattan, Head of Institute, Amity Institute of Applied Sciences (AIAS), Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida. ST and RV acknowledge Prof. Sangeeta Tiwari and Prof. R. S. Pandey, Head, Dept. of Chemistry and Physics, AIAS, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida. ST would like to thanks Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi, India.
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Thatai, S., Verma, R., Khurana, P., Goel, P., Kumar, D. (2019). Water Quality Standards, Its Pollution and Treatment Methods. In: Naushad, M. (eds) A New Generation Material Graphene: Applications in Water Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75484-0_2
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