Occurrence and fate of emerging contaminants in water environment: A review

Groundwater for Sustainable Development - Tập 6 - Trang 169-180 - 2018
Anindita Gogoi1, Payal Mazumder2, Vinay Kumar Tyagi3, Tushara Chaminda4, Alicia Kyoungjin An5, Manish Kumar6
1Department of Environmental Science, Tezpur University, Napaam 784028, Assam, India
2Centre for Environment, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, India
3Advanced Environmental Biotechnology Centre, Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University, 637141, Singapore
4Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Ruhuna, Galle, Sri Lanka
5School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
6Discipline of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

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