Water Bodies/Water Systems/Aquatic Environments: Quality Evaluation, Heavy Metal Pollution, Contamination, Prevention and Purification Techniques
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".
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Dear Colleagues,
The quality of groundwater and surface waters indicates the standard of living and the scale of human impact on the environment. Pollutants of various types including heavy metals enter the water systems, influencing and affecting their quality.
This Special Issue: heavy metals in the aquatic environments, mainly focus on studies implying the occurrence, distribution, migration and transformation of emerging heavy metals and the factors that affect; the occurrence, migration, and transformation of heavy metals in various media (e.g., sediment, water, aquatic organisms); monitoring and analysing the heavy metals in aquatic environments; source identification, the temporal and spatial distribution of heavy metals; heavy metal speciation; environmental risks associated with heavy metals; pollution assessment by using pollution indices, exposure, bioaccumulation, toxic effects and human health risk assessment at heavy metals pollution associated with exposure at water. The development of advanced treatment technology, including physicochemical, membrane separation, advanced oxidation, and biological processes, and their combinations, which warrant further investigation in sustainable water treatment, is at the core of this Special Issue.
New research papers, reviews, case reports and conference papers are welcome, especially those combining a high academic standard with findings on the sources, effects, control and management of pollution in aquatic environments.
The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- Advanced detection methods of emerging contaminants.
- Human health risk assessment related to contaminated water bodies.
- Pollution assessment using different tools (indices, diagrams, modelling).
- Groundwater pollution prevention and remediation technologies (photocatalytic, adsorption bio-degradation, membrane separation)
- Sustainable management risk analysis and response strategies for groundwater or surface water resources.
- Heavy metals and nutrients in drinking, groundwater or surface water and effects on living organisms.
- Effect on biota in surface water and transfer of pollutants from aquatic environments to biota.
- Costs and benefits analysis of pollutant removal processes and technologies.
- Computational and theoretical studies of reaction mechanisms, kinetics and thermodynamics of water depollution processes.
- The environmental assessment related to the trace metals content in water ecosystems.
Dr. Dippong Thomas
Guest Editor
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