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Emerging Contaminants Effect on Aquatic Ecosystem: Human Health Risks
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This review paper looks at how pollutants like heavy metals, pesticides, microplastics, and nanomaterials build up in lakes and rivers from farm runoff and wastewater. These substances often go unmonitored, yet they can work their way into the water we rely on and potentially harm our health. The takeaway: better tracking of these contaminants is needed to protect both aquatic life and the people downstream.
The current chapter deals with different emerging contaminants that are present in aquatic ecosystem and pose a potential threat to the aquatic organisms inhabiting there.Emerging contaminants may be many more of which the most common include trace metals, pesticides, nanomaterials and microplastics.The main source of emerging contaminants includes land-based sources, runoff from agricultural sources and waste water effluents from domestic and industrial sources which ultimately reach the aquatic system which define their fate and transformation.Most of these contaminants are not frequently measured but have the possibility to reach the aquatic ecosystem and cause negative impacts on human health.The above aforesaid emerging contaminates are explained in detail, imparting examples of the most admissible compounds and their characteristics and hazard indicators.
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