Access to safe drinking water continues to be an international concern. While some sources of contamination can be identified and removed, other contaminants appear from unknown sources. This collection of research includes studies to detect contaminants as well as reports on remediation techniques. Specific contaminants include heavy metals, pesticides, disinfection by-products, GenX, microplastics, antibiotics, and others. Analytical and environmental chemists, as well as researchers focused on water quality, will find this work valuable.
Preface Chapter 1. Overview: Current Status of Environmental Research on Water Contaminants, Satinder Ahuja Chapter 2. Synthetic Organic Chemical Pollutants in Water: Origin, Distribution, and Implications for Human Exposure and Health, Bommanna G. Loganathan, Satinder Ahuja, and Bikram Subedi Chapter 3. Current Status of Heavy Metal Contaminants and Their Removal/Recovery Techniques, Manavi Yadav, Radhika Gupta, Gunjan Arora, Priya Yadav, Anju Srivastava, and Rakesh Kumar Sharma Chapter 4. A Review of Microplastics in Freshwater Environments: Locations, Methods, and Pollution Loads, Julie R. Peller, Cassandra R. Nelson, Bharath Ganesh Babu, Christopher Iceman, and Edward Kostelnik Chapter 5. GenX in Cape Fear River Water Was Only One Part of the PFAS Story in North Carolina, Lawrence B. Cahoon Chapter 6. A Review on Disinfection and Disinfection Byproducts, Surbhi Tak, Bhanu Prakash Vellanki, and Satinder Ahuja Chapter 7 Disinfection Byproducts in Drinking Water: Formation, Characterization, Control Technologies, Bineyam Mezgebe, Endalkachew Sahle-Demessie, and George A. Sorial Chapter 8. The Binding of Ciprofloxacin with Perfluorooctanesulfonic Acid (PFOS): Fluorescence and pH Studies, Carol A. Ajjan, Abul Hussam, and Greg Foster Chapter 9. Designing Multidentate Ligands for Ion Complexation and Water Remediation, Marianne Kajy, Courtney Mather, Hayden Cunningham, Kayla Polisano, Coryn Le, Ahmed Al-Hilali, Justin Pothoof, Clayton Blackwell, and Mark A. Benvenuto Chapter 10. Recent Progress on the Development of Superhydrophobic and Superoleophilic Meshes for Oil and Water Separation: A Review, Nadeem Baig Chapter 11. Recent Developments in Aqueous Arsenic(III) Remediation Using Biomass-Based Adsorbents, Chanaka Navarathna, Jacinta Alchouron, Achala Liyanage, Amali Herath, Pathum Wathudura, Samadhi Nawalage, Prashan Rodrigo, Sameera Gunatilake, Dinesh Mohan, Charles Pittman, and Todd Mlsna Chapter 12. Cellulose-Supported Nanosized Zinc Oxide: Highly Efficient Bionanomaterial for Removal of Arsenic from Water, Sunil K. Sharma, Priyanka R. Sharma, Hui Chen, Ken Johnson, Chengbo Zhan, Ruifu Wang, and Benjamin Hsiao Chapter 13. Remediation of UO22+ from Water by Nitro-Oxidized Carboxycellulose Nanofibers: Performance and Mechanism, Priyanka R. Sharma, Sunil K. Sharma, William Borges, Hui Chen, and Benjamin S. Hsiao Editors' Biographies Author Index Subject Index
Satinder Ahuja earned his Ph.D. from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia and led R&D on pharmaceutical and environmental issues as Senior Research Fellow at Novartis Corporation while simultaneously serving as Adjunct Professor at several universities. Since 1994, as President of Ahuja Consulting, he has been advising on drugs and water quality issues. He helps solve the problem of water contamination worldwide and encourages water quality research at Ahuja Academy of Water Quality. Bommanna Loganathan is Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Watershed Studies Institute at Murray State University. His research interests include distribution and temporal trends of persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic chemicals in the environment and biota. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and 35 papers in international conference proceedings. Loganathan is a recipient several teaching, research and service awards including the 2019 ACS E. Ann Nalley Volunteer Service Award, 2013 Max Carman Outstanding Teacher Award, the 2012 Karl Hussung Professorship in Chemistry, the 2010 Presidential Research Fellowship, the Sandra Flynn Professor of the year award, the 2007 MSU Distinguished Researcher award, and the Elsevier's 2007-2011 Top Cited Author Award.
