Water Pollutants: Origin and Status
Jyoti Singh, Priyanka Yadav, Ashok Kumar Pal and Vishal Mishra
Abstract Water is the core of life that helps us to exist and also, the most vivacious
that keeps us alive. It is essential for all to drink clean and pure water. Due to
natural and anthropogenic sources, water becomes polluted that results in the origin
of different water pollutants. These water pollutants need to be eliminated from the
water for liveliness of people and protect them from various diseases. For instance,
water pollution in Rajasthan is due to the indulgence of different industries.
Likewise, in Rajasthan many states are affected by water pollution badly. Not only
India, whole world suffers from the identical issues. The discharge of chemicals as
well as heavy metals through industries and factories are the major sources of water
pollution. It is reported that one of the largest sources for this is untreated sewage,
discharge into rivers that ultimately affects environment and thus, finally human
beings. Human beings contribute in an enormous way to pollute water. Education
related to environment should be given to the students and common people so that
this problem can be reduced to a certain level. This chapter focuses mainly on the
origin of different water pollutants and their current status in the environment.
Keywords Water pollutants Á Status Á Origin Á Diseases Á Humans Á Environment
1 Introduction
Water is the most vital component in the origin of life. Without water, life is not
possible. But it got contaminated by various toxic, inorganic industrial pollutants
that results in several problems such as unsafe for consumption for humans and
irrigation activities. This leads to water scarcity because it limits its availability for
humans and ecosystem.
J. Singh Á P. Yadav Á A. K. Pal Á V. Mishra (&)
School of Biochemical Engineering, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, Varanasi 221005, India
e-mail: vishal.bce@itbhu.ac.in
© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
D. Pooja et al. (eds.), Sensors in Water Pollutants Monitoring: Role of Material,
Advanced Functional Materials and Sensors,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0671-0_2
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Jyoti Singh, Priyanka Yadav, Ashok Kumar Pal and Vishal Mishra
Abstract Water is the core of life that helps us to exist and also, the most vivacious
that keeps us alive. It is essential for all to drink clean and pure water. Due to
natural and anthropogenic sources, water becomes polluted that results in the origin
of different water pollutants. These water pollutants need to be eliminated from the
water for liveliness of people and protect them from various diseases. For instance,
water pollution in Rajasthan is due to the indulgence of different industries.
Likewise, in Rajasthan many states are affected by water pollution badly. Not only
India, whole world suffers from the identical issues. The discharge of chemicals as
well as heavy metals through industries and factories are the major sources of water
pollution. It is reported that one of the largest sources for this is untreated sewage,
discharge into rivers that ultimately affects environment and thus, finally human
beings. Human beings contribute in an enormous way to pollute water. Education
related to environment should be given to the students and common people so that
this problem can be reduced to a certain level. This chapter focuses mainly on the
origin of different water pollutants and their current status in the environment.
Keywords Water pollutants Á Status Á Origin Á Diseases Á Humans Á Environment
1 Introduction
Water is the most vital component in the origin of life. Without water, life is not
possible. But it got contaminated by various toxic, inorganic industrial pollutants
that results in several problems such as unsafe for consumption for humans and
irrigation activities. This leads to water scarcity because it limits its availability for
humans and ecosystem.
J. Singh Á P. Yadav Á A. K. Pal Á V. Mishra (&)
School of Biochemical Engineering, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, Varanasi 221005, India
e-mail: vishal.bce@itbhu.ac.in
© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
D. Pooja et al. (eds.), Sensors in Water Pollutants Monitoring: Role of Material,
Advanced Functional Materials and Sensors,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0671-0_2
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