[HTML][HTML] Emerging organic contaminants in the River Ganga and key tributaries in the middle Gangetic Plain, India: Characterization, distribution & controls

LA Richards, S Guo, DJ Lapworth, D White, W Civil… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
The presence and distribution of emerging organic contaminants (EOCs) in freshwater
environments is a key issue in India and globally, particularly due to ecotoxicological and …

Comparative risk assessment studies estimating the hazard posed by long-term consumption of PPCPs in river water

A Subramanian, M Saravanan, B Rajasekhar… - Food and Chemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study assesses the risk due to Emerging Contaminants (ECs), present in Indian rivers–
Ganga (650 million inhabitants), Yamuna (57 million inhabitants), and Musi (7,500,000 …

West African e-waste-soil assessed with a battery of cell-based bioassays

CTG Eze, AA Otitoloju, OO Eze, TE Ugochukwu… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil samples randomly taken from major e-waste sites in West Africa (Nigeria, Benin and
Ghana) were examined for an extensive range of organic contaminants. Cytotoxicity …

Watering Sundarban's fields: a systematic review of groundwater and surface water suitability for irrigation

Monika, Dimple, S Kumar, A Giri - Applied Water Science, 2024 - Springer
The Sundarban region—located from the Hooghly River in India's state of West Bengal to
the Baleswar River in Bangladesh—renowned for its distinctive ecosystem and agricultural …

Relationship between species richness, taxonomic distinctness, functional diversity, and local contribution to β diversity and effects of habitat disturbance in the …

K De, AP Singh, A Sarkar, K Singh, M Siliwal… - Ecological …, 2023 - Springer
Background In the riverine riparian ecosystem, particularly in India, the knowledge of the
effects of habitat disturbance on taxonomic distinctness, functional diversity, and local …

Occurrence, removal, and mass balance of contaminants of emerging concern in biological nutrient removal-based sewage treatment plants: Role of redox conditions …

M Dubey, A Rajpal, BP Vellanki, AA Kazmi - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The study investigates the fate of 20 contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in two full-
scale wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) based on the Biodenipho™(WWTP 1) and …

Evidence of p-nitrophenol Biodegradation and Study of Genomic Attributes from a Newly Isolated Aquatic Bacterium Pseudomonas Asiatica Strain PNPG3

SA Alam, P Saha - Soil and Sediment Contamination: An …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A p-nitrophenol (PNP) degrading aquatic bacterial strain PNPG3 was isolated
from the Ganges water and was identified as Pseudomonas asiatica based on genome …

[HTML][HTML] Urban fingerprinting on the River Ganges: A perspective of emerging contaminants status

S Tripathi, R Kumar, P Mondal, AK Thakur… - Total Environment …, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the decades, there has been an increase in the number of Emerging Contaminants
(ECs) in different aquatic compartments. These ECs do have a direct effect on marine …

Urbanization led to the abundance of Gram-negative, chemo-organo-heterotrophs, and antibiotic resistance genes in the downstream regions of the Ganga River …

A Srivastava, D Verma - Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023 - Springer
The present investigation assesses the bacterial microbiome and antibiotic resistance genes
(ARGs) of the river Ganga from Uttarakhand (upstream region; US group) and Uttar Pradesh …

Biodegradation of p-nitrophenol by a member of the genus Brachybacterium, isolated from the river Ganges

SA Alam, P Saha - 3 Biotech, 2022 - Springer
A p-nitrophenol (PNP) degrading halotolerant, Gram-variable bacterial strain designated as
DNPG3, was isolated from a water sample collected from the river Ganges in Hooghly, West …