Advances in Water Purification Techniques: Meeting the Needs of Developed and Developing Countries provides a variety of approaches to water purification that can help assist readers with their research and applications. Water contamination problems occur frequently worldwide, hence the most updated knowledge on water purification systems can be helpful in employing the right type of filter or other mechanism of decontamination. The problems with arsenic contamination of water in Bangladesh and the lead problem in Flint, Michigan remind us of the need to monitor water pollution rigorously, from both point and non-point sources.
- Provides a valuable resource on how to solve water contamination problems or develop new approaches to water purification
- Presents advanced methods for monitoring water contamination
- Describes various approaches to water purification
- Encourages new developments in water purification techniques
- Includes methods for assessing and monitoring environmental contaminants
- Covers recent advancement in molecular techniques
1. Overview of Advances in Water Purification Techniques
2. Global Water Challenges and Solutions
3. Water Supply and Water Quality Challenges in Panama
4. Contaminants of Emerging Concern: Occurrence, Fate, and Remediation
5. Monitoring Water Contaminants With Ion Chromatography
6. Advanced Oxidation and Reduction Processes
7. Capacitive Deionization (CDI): An Alternative Cost-Efficient Desalination
Technique
8. Remediation of Selenium in Water: A Review
9. Status of Arsenic Remediation in India
10. Addressing the Arsenic Issue in the Lower Mekong RegionThe Challenges
and Systematic Approaches
11. Development of Synthetic Hydroxyapatite-Based Household Defluoridation
Unit
12. Addressing Groundwater Fluoride Contamination Using Inexpensively
Processed Bauxite
13. Transforming the Global Arsenic and Fluoride Crisis Into an Economic
Enterprise: Role of Hybrid Anion Exchange Nanotechnology (HAIX-Nano) in
Ballia, Uttar Pradesh and Nalhati, West Bengal
14. Green and Sustainable Pathways for Wastewater Purification
15. Water Purification: Treatment of Microbial Contamination
16. Taking Good Ideas to Great Products: Building Bridges Across the
Technology Readiness Valley for Water Purification Technologies in Singapore
Satinder Ahuja is a leading expert on water quality improvement. He earned his PhD in analytical chemistry from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. He worked for Novartis Corp. in various leadership positions for over 25 years and taught as an adjunct professor at Pace University for over 10 years. As president of Ahuja Consulting, he advises on water quality issues relating to chemicals and pharmaceuticals. A member of the executive committee of the Rivers of the World Foundation (ROW), Dr. Ahuja has organized numerous global symposia on improving water quality, including presentations for the American Chemical Society and UNESCO. Dr. Ahuja has published numerous papers and more than 25 books. His latest books are Contaminants in Our Water (ACS, 2020); Evaluating Water Quality to Prevent Future Disasters (Elsevier, 2019); Advances in Water Purification Techniques (Elsevier, 2019); and Chemistry and Water (Elsevier, 2017).