May 2014
Intermediate to advanced
704 pages
22h 15m
English
T. Pradeep1, Anshup2 and M.S. Bootharaju3, 1DST Unit of Nanoscience and Thematic Unit of Excellence, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India, 2InnoNano Research Private Limited, An IIT Madras-Incubated Company Focusing on Technologies for Clean Drinking Water, Chennai, India, 3Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
Intensive farming, rapid industrialization, and increasingly sophisticated lifestyles have added artificial chemicals into many water bodies. While pesticide residues in groundwater was unexpected years ago as soil was thought to act as a filter, it is ...