Water and Health
Contents: 1. Introduction. I. Pesticides and Health: 2. Persistent Pollutants and Human Health/Pradeep Bhatnagar and Sreemoyee Chatterjee. 3. Detrimental Outcome on the Human Health with the Emergent Usage of Pesticides/Ashu Chaudhary, Anshul Singh, Priyanka Sharma and S.C. Joshi. 4. Impact of Pesticides on Human Health/Yasmeen Khan. II. Fluoride and Health: 5. Fluoride and Health Hazards/Nisha Jain and S.C. Joshi. 6. Impact of Flurosis on Nutrient Intake among School Going Children/Mukta Agrawal, Ritu Babel and Sunil K. Gupta. 7. Prevalence of Dental Fluorosis Due to Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Case Study of Peeplu Tehsil/A.B. Gupta, Kanika Saxena, Neelam Kothari and Shruti Jain. 8. Fluoride Content of Food Items Grown and Consumed in Fluorosis Affected Areas of Rajasthan/Ritu Babel, Mukta Agrawal and Sunil K. Gupta. III. Nitrate, Heavy Metals and Salinity: 9. Environmental Health Aspects of Nitrate Toxicity in Humans and its Mitigation Measures/Sunil K. Gupta. 10. Socio-Economic and Health Impacts of Waterlogging and Water Pollution in IGNP, Stage I Canals/A.N. Arora and Rohit Goyal. 11. Impact of Heavy Metals on Human Health: Assessment of Sanganer Area Textile Waste Water/Jaishree. IV. Sanitation and Health: 12. Water Sanitation and Health Outcomes/Alpana Kateja and Sanjukta Saha. 13. Water, Sanitation and Health: An Inter-District Analysis of Rajasthan/Alpana Kateja and Chitra Choudhary. 14. Ground Water Scenario of Rajasthan/P.K. Parchure. 15. Understanding Linkage of Climate-Water-Health in Banas Basin of Rajasthan/Devesh Sharma and Swatantra Kumar Dubey. 16. Ground Water Pollution Scenario, Health Issues and Management Options in Rajasthan/L.N. Mathur.
In spite of recent surge of interest in health issues, the impact of water on health has not elicited much attention in the academia. Though fluoride and heavy metals have been fairly researched, literature on nitrate and salinity is scanty; lack of sanitation and its resultant impact on health still remains under researched. One of the reasons for this can be attributed to the existence of diverse forms of contaminations and the variety of risks attached to each one. The present volume focuses on growing threats to health from detrimental pollutants in water, the life giving substance.
The book, divided into four sections, incorporates assemblage of diverse ideas in the discourse to take a holistic view of the issue. It benefits from the valuable contributions of environmentalists, medical practitioners, educationists and economists alike. Containing a wide array of empirical analyses and field level case studies, the volume has metamorphosed into an interesting and useful compendium of issues such as pollution caused by pesticide and heavy metals; health impact of contaminants like fluoride, nitrate, and salinity; and lack of safe drinking water and sanitation. The book seeks to attract the attention of academicians and policy makers to the alarming situation and strong actions that need to be taken to save human life and the ecosystem. (jacket)
