Contaminated Irrigation Water and the Associated Public Health Risks

Food, Energy, and Water: The Chemistry Connection

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 349-381

  Tongesayi, Tsanangurayi ^a   Tongesayi, Sunungurai ^b  

^a MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WALDEN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemicals; Food contamination; Health risk; Nanomaterials; Pathogens; Wastewater; Water contamination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944402866     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800211-7.00013-2     Document Type: Chapter

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