Groundwater Pollution

The present book Groundwater Pollution highlights the demand and crisis of water, need of a water policy, water management: practices, groundwater recharging through rainwater harvesting and also described the drinking water quality standards for various nations. The last segment of book reflects the impact assessment of industrial effluents on quality characteristics of groundwater and surrounding environment in and around Panipat industrial region in Haryana.

The book mainly deals with water resources management and pollution aspects of industrial effluents drained by few industries and played a significant role in degrading the water quality of groundwater and ultimately effected the surrounding environment. Further, it has emphasized about the distributional pathway of heavy metals from industrial effluents to groundwater as well as agricultural soil system. The accumulation of heavy metals as transfer and enrichment factor also described and calculated the metal accumulation factor among all trophic levels. Further, the research data may be incorporated along with health hazards among unskilled and skill labors in industrial premises.

The book will be good contribution for scientists, environmentalists, zoologists, agriculturists, health scientists, nongovernment organizations, research students and serve as a reference to initiate the research in the field of groundwater pollution. The present research data would be inspired to research worker to combat the industrial and groundwater pollution and its remedial measures on point or non point sources of industrial pollution.