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distillery wastewater and treatment approaches to combat the environmental threats: a review.
Chemosphere 194:229–246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.11.163
Chowdhury S, Mazumder MAJ, Al-Attas O, Husain T (2016) Heavy metals in drinking water:
occurrences, implications, and future needs in developing countries. Sci Total Environ
569–570:476–488. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.06.166
Cravotta CA (1993) Secondary iron-sulfate minerals as sources of sulfate and acidity: geochemical
evolution of acidic ground water at a reclaimed surface coal mine in Pennsylvania. In: Alpers
CN, Blowes DW (eds) Environmental geochemistry of sulfide oxidation. ACS symposium
series, vol 550. Wiley, Washington, DC, pp 345–364
Craw D, Falconer D, Youngson JH (2003) Environmental arsenopyrite stability and dissolution:
theory, experiment, and field observations. Chem Geol 199:71–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/
S0009-2541(03)00117-7
Das Gupta A (2008) Implication of environmental flows in river basin management. Phys Chem
Earth 33:298–303. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pce.2008.02.004
de Luca Rebello RC, Machado Gomes K, Duarte RS et al (2013) Diversity of mercury resistant
Escherichia coli strains isolated from aquatic systems in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Int J Biodivers
2013:1–8. https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/265356
Decharat S (2016) Heavy metals exposure and hygienic behaviors of workers in sanitary landfill
areas in southern Thailand. Scientifica (Cairo) 2016:1–9. https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/9269210
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mining area-before and after the end of mining activities. Soil Water Res 12:229–236. https://
doi.org/10.17221/107/2016-SWR
Deng X, Wilson DB (2001) Bioaccumulation of mercury from wastewater by genetically
engineered Escherichia coli. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 56:276–279. https://doi.org/10.1007/
s002530100620
DeSisto SL, Jamieson HE, Parsons MB (2017) Arsenic mobility in weathered gold mine tailings
under a low-organic soil cover. Environ Earth Sci 76:773. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-0177041-7
Edelstein M, Ben-Hur M (2018) Heavy metals and metalloids: sources, risks and strategies to
reduce their accumulation in horticultural crops. Sci Hortic (Amsterdam) 234:431–444. https://
doi.org/10.1016/j.scienta.2017.12.039
Edokpayi JN, Enitan AM, Mutileni N, Odiyo JO (2018) Evaluation of water quality and human risk
assessment due to heavy metals in groundwater around Muledane area of Vhembe District,
Limpopo Province, South Africa. Chem Cent J 12:2. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13065-017-0369y
Elgallal M, Fletcher L, Evans B (2016) Assessment of potential risks associated with chemicals in
wastewater used for irrigation in arid and semiarid zones: a review. Agric Water Manag
177:419–431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2016.08.027
Esmaeili S, Asghari Moghaddam A, Barzegar R, Tziritis E (2018) Multivariate statistics and
hydrogeochemical modeling for source identification of major elements and heavy metals in
the groundwater of Qareh-Ziaeddin plain, NW Iran. Arab J Geosci 11:5. https://doi.org/10.1007/
s12517-017-3317-1
Evens A, Hryhorczuk D, Lanphear BP et al (2015) The impact of low-level lead toxicity on school
performance among children in the Chicago public schools: a population-based retrospective
cohort study. Environ Heal A Glob Access Sci Source 14:1–9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940015-0008-9
Fowler BA, Chou C-HSJ, Jones RL, Chen C-J (2007) Arsenic. In: Nordberg GF, Fowler BA,
Nordberg M, Friberg LT (eds) Handbook on the toxicology of metals, 3rd edn. Elsevier,
Amsterdam, pp 367–406
272
I. Mukherjee et al.