The rapid increases in industrialization and populations are significant sources of water contamination. The speed with which contamination of groundwater and surface water occurs is becoming a serious problem and poses a significant obstacle for water stakeholders. Heavy metals, organic, and inorganic contaminants in the form of suspended and dissolved materials are just a few of the contaminants that can be found in drinking water.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBacterial pathogens in water, food, and the environment are spreading diseases around the world. According to a World Health Organization (WHO) report, waterborne pathogens pose the most significant global health risks to living organisms, including humans and animals. Conventional bacterial detection approaches such as colony counting, microscopic analysis, biochemical analysis, and molecular analysis are expensive, time-consuming, less sensitive, and require a pre-enrichment step.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Denitrification-Decomposition (DNDC)-Rice is a mechanistic model which is widely used for the simulation and estimation of greenhouse gas emissions [nitrous oxide (NO)] from soils under rice cultivation. NO emissions from paddy fields in South Korea are of high importance for their cumulative effect on climate. The objective of this study was to estimate the NO emissions and biogeochemical factors involved in NO emissions such as ammonium (NH) and nitrate (NO) using the DNDC model in the rice-growing regions of South Korea.
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