Remediation of contaminated groundwater at hazardous waste sites is undergoing a tremendous shift from the conventional "pump and treat" containment remedies to more effective and aggressive source area technologies ...

Chromium (VI) that exists in many industrial wastewaters is considered highly toxic. The aim of the present investigation was to study the reduction of Cr (VI) to Cr (III) and then removing it with the help of Weathered ...

River Bank Filtration (RBF) has been proved to be an efficient water treatment process in European countries, United States as well as in India. Many cities and towns in India are situated on the river bank and have ...

Lower bounds for extraction of pollutants from sewage are investigated for the case of four floating aquatic macrophytes, water hyacinth (Eichhomia crassipes), water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes), salvinia (Salvinia rotundifolia) ...

Intensive industrialization generates hazardous wastes prominently comprising of toxic metals that needs to be tackled in a safe manner. Human population needs method and technologies to clean water and diminish the ...

The problem of fluoride in drinking water is a major health issue in many countries. In Hard Rock (granite, gneiss) aquifers of southern India, many drinking water supplies present fluoride levels higher than threshold ...

The main aim of the study is to investigate the trend and performance in drinking water related research in India for the past 16 years. For this paper we used Science Citation Index (SCI), Institute for Scientific Information ...

Sugar industry is one of the most important agri-based industries in India. Majority of research on the beneficial use of Bagasse Fly Ash (BFA), a waste produced in sugar industries, has been focused on generation of cement ...

Rapid industrialization and tremendous increase in the use of heavy metals over the past few decades has inevitably resulted in an increased flux of metallic substances in the environment. The metals are of special concern ...

Last few years researchers have gained success to some extent in developing inexpensive adsorbent for water pollution control utilizing naturally available and industrial waste materials. However, still there is a need to ...