Contents
Part I Monitoring of Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs)
in the Aquatic Environment
1 Pharmaceuticals, Personal Care Products, and Artificial
Sweeteners in Asian Groundwater: A Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Keisuke Kuroda and Jun Kobayashi
2 Affinity-Based Methods for the Analysis of Emerging
Contaminants in Wastewater and Related Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Sazia Iftekhar, Susan T. Ovbude, and David S. Hage
3 Natural Attenuation of Pharmaceuticals in the Aquatic
Environment and Role of Phototransformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Sanjeeb Mohapatra, N. Gayathri Menon, Lokesh P. Padhye,
Sankara Sarma V. Tatiparti, and Suparna Mukherji
4 Impact and Fate of Microplastics in the Riverine Ecosystem . . . . . 95
Dhruba Jyoti Sarkar, Soma Das Sarkar, Santanu Mukherjee,
and Basanta Kumar Das
5 Assessment of Groundwater Quality in Sri Lanka
Using Multivariate Statistical Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
B. M. J. K. Balasooriya, G. G. T. Chaminda, S. K. Weragoda,
Champika Ellawala Kankanamge, and Tomonori Kawakami
6 Source and Fate of Perchlorate in the Environment:
A Grave Concern for World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Paulami Sahu
7 Carcinogenic Nature of Emerging Contaminants:
Havoc for Present and Gateway of Unhealthy Future . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Tejaswini Sahoo, Jnana Ranjan Sahu, Jagannath Panda,
Priyanka Nayak, Sraswati Soren, Sunil Kumar Sahoo,
and Rojalin Sahu
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