[HTML][HTML] Phytoremediation: Mechanisms, plant selection and enhancement by natural and synthetic agents

A Kafle, A Timilsina, A Gautam, K Adhikari… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
With current intensive agriculture practices and industrialization, pollution of natural
resources like land and water with heavy metals, organic pollutants, radionuclides …

Environmental arsenic exposure and its contribution to human diseases, toxicity mechanism and management

MS Rahaman, MM Rahman, N Mise, MT Sikder… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Arsenic is a well-recognized environmental contaminant that occurs naturally through
geogenic processes in the aquifer. More than 200 million people around the world are …

Global evaluation of heavy metal content in surface water bodies: A meta-analysis using heavy metal pollution indices and multivariate statistical analyses

V Kumar, RD Parihar, A Sharma, P Bakshi, GPS Sidhu… - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
Water is polluted by increasing activities of population and the necessity to provide them
with goods and services that use water as a vital resource. The contamination of water due …

Assessment of environmental and toxicity impacts and potential health hazards of heavy metals pollution of agricultural drainage adjacent to industrial zones in Egypt

RS Ahmed, ME Abuarab, MM Ibrahim, M Baioumy… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
The objectives of this study were to assess the environmental impact of industrial
wastewater disposal in the El-Khadrawiya agricultural drain, Menoufia Governorate, Egypt …

[HTML][HTML] Human health risks due to exposure to water pollution: a review

P Babuji, S Thirumalaisamy, K Duraisamy… - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
Water resources are crucial in developing any area as they serve as a major source of
potable, agricultural, and industrial water. Water contamination, caused by natural and …

[HTML][HTML] Carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic health risk assessment of heavy metals in drinking water of Khorramabad, Iran

AA Mohammadi, A Zarei, S Majidi, A Ghaderpoury… - MethodsX, 2019 - Elsevier
The continuous urbanization and industrialization in many parts of the world and Iran has
led to high levels of heavy metal contamination in the soil and then on the surface and …

[HTML][HTML] A critical prospective analysis of the potential toxicity of trace element regulation limits in soils worldwide: Are they protective concerning health risk …

V Antoniadis, SM Shaheen, E Levizou, M Shahid… - Environment …, 2019 - Elsevier
Trace elements (TEs) may have toxic effects to plants and humans; thus, countries and
organizations impose maximum allowable regulation limits of their concentrations in soils …

Natural flocculants for the treatment of wastewaters containing dyes or heavy metals: A state-of-the-art review

J El-Gaayda, FE Titchou, R Oukhrib, PS Yap… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Flocculation is a water and wastewater treatment technology whereby the large aggregation
of flocs in water can be formed and be later separated through sedimentation. This review …

Heavy metals in drinking water: occurrences, implications, and future needs in developing countries

S Chowdhury, MAJ Mazumder, O Al-Attas… - Science of the total …, 2016 - Elsevier
Heavy metals in drinking water pose a threat to human health. Populations are exposed to
heavy metals primarily through water consumption, but few heavy metals can bioaccumulate …

Review of chitosan composite as a heavy metal adsorbent: Material preparation and properties

S Begum, NY Yuhana, NM Saleh, NHN Kamarudin… - Carbohydrate …, 2021 - Elsevier
A large amount of wastewater is typically discharged into water bodies and has extremely
harmful effects to aquatic environments. The removal of heavy metals from water bodies is …