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Contamination of Agro-Ecosystem and Human Health Hazards from Wastewater used for Irrigatio

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dc.contributor.author MUHAMMAD JAMIL
dc.contributor.author MUHAMMAD SHARIF ZIA
dc.contributor.author MUHAMMAD QASIM
dc.date.accessioned 2023-12-01T04:53:24Z
dc.date.available 2023-12-01T04:53:24Z
dc.date.issued 2010-06-18
dc.identifier.citation Jamil, M., Zia, M. S., & Qasim, M. (2010). Contamination of agro-ecosystem and human health hazards from wastewater used for irrigation. Journal of the Chemical Society of Pakistan, 32(3), 370-378. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0253-5106
dc.identifier.uri http://142.54.178.187:9060/xmlui/handle/123456789/19991
dc.description.abstract The use of untreated/inadequately treated wastewater for irrigation in agriculture has been practiced for many years in arid zones of industrialized as well as developing countries. Farmers mostly use wastewater for growing the vegetables and fodders in urban areas because of unavailability of enough suitable water, wastewater’s high nutrient value, reliability and proximity to urban market. Wastewater is loaded with salts, heavy metals and disease causing micro organism. Continuous use of untreated city effluents for growing vegetable may result in soil degradation, accumulation of heavy metal in soil in phyto-toxic concentrations and contamination of soil-water-plant system with pathogens. The intake of contaminated vegetables may lead to public health risks of transmission of enteric diseases. Also excessive intake of heavy metal ions may result in human health hazards due to their toxic effect. This review paper, therefore, discusses heavy metal and pathogen load in wastewater and their contribution towards pollution of agro-ecosystem and their consequent impact on human health. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship The chemical society of Pakistan is an approved society from the PSF. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi, Karachi. en_US
dc.title Contamination of Agro-Ecosystem and Human Health Hazards from Wastewater used for Irrigatio en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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