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Water Pollutants: Sources and Impact on the Environment and Human Health

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Sensors in Water Pollutants Monitoring: Role of Material

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Water is the most crucial commodity for life support process in organism. Water is basic and mandatory need for the humans and the entire living creature on earth. Therefore, the consumption of water by human should be safe, easily accessible, adequate and free from any kind of contamination. Pollutants in water bodies pose a severe threat to human health as well as aquatic ecosystem. There are numbers of water pollutant which has been categorized into inorganic pollutants, organic pollutants, pathogens, thermal pollution, and radioactive pollutants etc. In the current review an endeavor has been made to recognize the water pollution based on biological and chemical indicator and categorize the water pollutant on the basis of different source and origin. A brief discussion on different water pollutants, their source in atmosphere and impact on environment and human health is also done in this study. In this study a concise discussion has been done on some traditional water pollutants like nutrients (NO3 and PO4), Halogen (Cl, Br and F), heavy metals (Fe, Mn, Al, Cu, Zn, Pb, Cd, Cr, Ni and Hg), organic pollutants (POPs, EDS and pesticides), and microbial pollutants. Some emerging crisis related to water pollution in recent past is like microplastic, thermal pollution, radioactive pollution and suspended solids and sediments are also included in this study.

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Madhav, S. et al. (2020). Water Pollutants: Sources and Impact on the Environment and Human Health. In: Pooja, D., Kumar, P., Singh, P., Patil, S. (eds) Sensors in Water Pollutants Monitoring: Role of Material. Advanced Functional Materials and Sensors. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0671-0_4

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