Fresh Water Pollution Dynamics and Remediation

Freshwater is a finite resource and is being deteriorated directly and indirectly by anthropogenic pressures. Preserving the quality and availability of freshwater resources is becoming one of the most pressing environmental challenges on the international horizon.  To ensure the preservation as well as availability of freshwater resources, there is a need to understand the ecology of the freshwater systems, pollution problems, their impacts, restoration techniques to be opted and the conservation measures. In this backdrop the present book on ‘Freshwater Pollution Dynamics and Remediation’ has been compiled.

The book provides an understanding about the present state of art, pollution impacts including the changes in the environmental quality as well as the shift in the aquatic biological communities of the fragile freshwater ecosystems. Besides, the impact of deteriorating quality of the freshwater ecosystems on the animal and human health is also discussed in detail. This book provides a comprehensive account of the techniques based on updated research in biotechnology, bio-remediation, phyto-remediation and nano-bioremediation. The role of biosorpers and biofilms as a remediation tool has also been detailed. The book is a ready reference for researchers, scientists and educators who are involved in the freshwater pollution, remediation and management studies.

The book editors with an expertise in diverse research fields in freshwater ecosystems have congregated the most inclusive research accounts on the freshwater pollution and remediation and thus developed a repository of diverse knowledge on the subject

Dr. Humaira Qadri is heading the department of Environment & Water Management and is teaching in the Post Graduate Department of Environmental Science in Sri Pratap College Campus, Cluster University Srinagar, J&K. She has her specialisation in limnology, nutrient dynamics and phytoremediation. Dr. Qadri has published scores of papers in international journals and has a more than 10 books with national and international publishers. She is also the reviewer of various international journals. She is guiding a number of research students for Ph.D program and has supervised more than 50 Master’s dissertations. She is the Principal Investigator of some major and minor research projects on phytoremediation. A gold medallist at her Master’s level, she has bagged a number of awards and certificates of merit. With a number of national scientific events to her credit she also has been on the scientific board of various international conferences. Dr. Qadri is an active participantin national and international scientific events and has organised a number of national conferences on science. She holds the life memberships of various international organisations as well.