List of Contributors vii Part I Water Pollution and Its Security 1 1 Water Security and Human Health in Relation to Climate Change: An Indian Perspective 3Ravishankar Kumar, Prafulla Kumar Sahoo, and Sunil Mittal 2 Assessment of Anthropogenic Pressure and Population Attitude for the Conservation of Kanwar Wetland, Begusarai, India: A Case Study 22Ajeet Kumar Singh, M. Sathya, Satyam Verma, Agam Kumar, and S. Jayakumar 3 Grossly Polluting Industries and Their Effect on Water Resources in India 47Zeenat Arif, Naresh Kumar Sethy, Swati, Pradeep Kumar Mishra, and Bhawna Verma Part II Phytoremediation of Water Pollution 67 4 Phytoremediation: Status and Outlook 69Kajal Patel, Indu Tripathi, Meenakshi Chaurasia, and K.S. Rao 5 Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals from the Biosphere Perspective and Solutions 95Indica Mohan, Kajol Goria, Sunil Dhar, Richa Kothari, B.S. Bhau, and Deepak Pathania 6 Phytoremediation for Heavy Metal Removal: Technological Advancements 128Monika Yadav, Gurudatta Singh, and R.N. Jadeja Part III Microbial Remediation of Water Pollution 151 7 Advances in Biological Techniques for Remediation of Heavy Metals Leached from a Fly Ash Contaminated Ecosphere 153Krishna Rawat and Amit Kumar Yadav 8 Microbial Degradation of Organic Contaminants in Water Bodies: Technological Advancements 172Deepak Yadav, Sukhendra Singh, and Rupika Sinha 9 The Fate of Organic Pollutants and Their Microbial Degradation in Water Bodies 210Gurudatta Singh, Anubhuti Singh, Priyanka Singh, Reetika Shukla, Shashank Tripathi, and Virendra Kumar Mishra Part IV Removal of Water Pollutants by Nanotechnology 241 10 Detection and Removal of Heavy Metals from Wastewater Using Nanomaterials 243Swati Chaudhary, Mohan Kumar, Saami Ahmed, and Mahima Kaushik 11 Spinel Ferrite Magnetic Nanoparticles: An Alternative for Wastewater Treatment 273Sanjeet Kumar Paswan, Pawan Kumar, Ram Kishore Singh, Sushil Kumar Shukla, and Lawrence Kumar 12 Biocompatible Cellulose-Based Sorbents for Potential Application in Heavy Metal Ion Removal from Wastewater 306Shashikant Shivaji Vhatkar, Kavita Kumari, and Ramesh Oraon Part V Advances in Remediation of Water Pollution 327 13 Advances in Membrane Technology Used in the Wastewater Treatment Process 329Naresh K. Sethy, Zeenat Arif, K.S. Sista, P.K. Mishra, Pradeep Kumar, and Avinash K. Kushwaha 14 Occurrence, Fate, and Remediation of Arsenic 349Gurudatta Singh, Anubhuti Singh, Reetika Shukla, Jayant Karwadiya, Ankita Gupta, Anam Naheed, and Virendra Kumar Mishra 15 Physical and Chemical Methods for Heavy Metal Removal 377Monika Yadav, Gurudatta Singh, and R.N. Jadeja Part VI Policy Dimensions on Water Security 399 16 The Role of Government and the Public in Water Resource Management in India 401Jitesh Narottam Vyas and Supriya Nath Index 416

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