Water Pollution: Assessment, Modelling and Management

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The book covers variety of topics viz., Water pollution : sources effects and control; Adverse performance of hydropower projects due to chemical nature of water; Ecological stress on the diversity of aquatic flora and fauna; Toxicity of ammonium per chlorate waste water fish Tilapia massambica; Toxicity of chlorinated pesticides on vital organs of fish Puntius tiato; Impact of heavy metal contamination of industrial waste water on cultivated vegetables; Distribution of heavy metals in lake sediments; Rate of reparian vegetation in pollution abatement, Water equality analysis of community ponds; Comparative assessment of ground water; Effects of elevated temperatures on phytoplankton population, Environ metric models in the assessment of surface water quality; Investigation on the physico chemical parameters of tropical river; Ground water arsenic contamination; application of mathematical models in aquatic pollution assessment. Chapter on affect of carbon sources on the biomass build-up and degradation of rubber processing in dusting effluent have added value to the book. Thus the book provides a glimpse of water pollution studies involving assessment of a wide range of data and interdisciplinary processes so as to apply for more efficient methods of water pollution modelling and management.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Asha Gupta

Dr. Asha Gupta is a faculty member at the department of Life sciences, Manipur University, Imphal. She obtained her M.Sc. degree in 1975 from the university of Sagar and Ph.D. Botany from Nagpur University in 1981. Under a post Doctoral fellowship of the Ministry of education, USSR she obtained her D.Sc. degree from Moscow university in 1990. She has presented papers in international conferences in Finland, France, japan, Russia and Italy and organized a symposium on matrix Models in Ecology, in 1998 at the Internal Congress of ecology at Florence, Italy. She has successfully completed research projects funded by CSIR, DST, Forest Deptt. Govt. of Manipur, WWF and Loktak Development Authority. She has published several reviews and research articles in journals of national and international repute. She is the editor of recently published book-Advancing Frontiers of ecological researchers.

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Title
Water Pollution: Assessment, Modelling and Management
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Edition
1st. ed.
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ISBN
9788171328444
Length
195p.,
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