Water Pollution

Water pollution is the contamination of lakes, rivers, oceans, and groundwater with foreign substances caused by human activities, substances that can be harmful to organisms and plants that live in the water. Researchers suspect that this form of pollution may be the leading worldwide cause of deaths and diseases, and that it accounts for the deaths of more than 14,000 people daily. That is why research into water pollution's causes and solutions is so essentialand this book offers readers the most up-to-date and serious research in the field.Selected Contents: Bacteriological Assessment of Urban Water Sources; Microbial Sulfate Reduction and Metal Attenuation; Association Between Drinking Water Turbidity and Gastrointestinal Illness; Evaluation of The Webler-Brown Model for Estimating Tetrachloroethylene Exposure from Vinyl-Lined Asbestos-Cement Pipes; Mass Stranding of Marine Birds; Measuring Variability in Trophic Status; Contamination of Rural Surface and GroundWater; Prospective Study of Rural DrinkingWater Quality and Acute Gastrointestinal Illness; Environmental Sanitation Crisis...