What few public sewers there were, would be choked, blocked, overflowing and completely unable to handle the waste of the millions of people who flooded into the cities and towns of Europe during the Industrial Revolution. Indeed, the idea of modern sewers wasn’t given any serious, practical ...
Accurate and timely information on water quality is required to develop solid public policy and efficiently conduct the water quality improvement program. The presence of dead vegetation, heavy metal leachates from solid waste dumps, household and industrial sewage, and surface runoff from agricultural ...
Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are toxic pollutants produced by incomplete combustion. Household fuel combustion in rural homes is an understudied and potentially highly exposing source. We constructed a model of indoor exposure of...