Industrial Wastewater on the Environment and Human Health
1University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain
3University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Industrial Wastewater on the Environment and Human Health
Description
Wastewater generated from different industries is discharged into the adjoining environment and water body. The discharged wastewater can be either partially or completely untreated. Due to industrialization in recent years, environmental deterioration is a major issue for consideration in different countries.
Wastewater also contains several microorganisms such as viruses, bacteria, protozoans, algae that have major public health concerns as these are causes of many water-borne diseases. The untreated wastewaters affect the quality of water in water bodies, thus having a detrimental effect on human health. The wastewater effluent may contain certain types of emerging contaminants that have endocrine disruptive characteristics. At times, the discharged water contains certain contaminants which are not removed by the techniques used in that industry, also causing harm to the environment and public health.
This Special Issue encourages scholars and experts to systematically discuss measures for non-hazardous water in the industrial sectors, so as to provide some references for the exploration of specific pathways to deal with human health. This Special Issue will provide a platform to share the latest methods and ideas on wastewater on environmental and public health. We welcome original research and review articles.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Human health and environmental aspects of electrophoretic deposition in capturing heavy metals from industrial wastewater
- Bioreactors in industrial wastewater treatment
- Tannin based polymers in efficient and sustainable treatment of industrial wastewater
- Advanced approaches in industrial wastewater for removal of heavy metals
- Industrial water pollution, water environment treatment and health risks in Asian counties
- Environmental remediation and monitoring of chemical processes of industrial wastewater
- Environmental sources, potential human health impacts, remediation technologies, and future perspectives of industrial wastewater treatment
- Treatment of industrial wastewater to mitigate the harmful effects of recalcitrant fluoroquinolone antibiotics on the environment and human health
- Environmental pollution and health hazards from distillery wastewater and treatment approaches to combat the environmental threats
- Industrial wastewater infrastructure in small cities for protection of human health and the environment