Toxic metal pollution in Pakistan and its possible risks to public health

SK Shakir, A Azizullah, W Murad, MK Daud… - … and Toxicology Volume …, 2017‏ - Springer
Environmental pollution has increased many folds in recent years and in some places has
reached levels that are toxic to living things. Among pollutant types, toxic heavy metals and …

Urbanization and its effects on water resources: An exploratory analysis

H Rashid, MM Manzoor… - Asian Journal of Water …, 2018‏ - content.iospress.com
Urbanization often causes environmental degradation and harms human health in
develo** countries. This study has an imperative focus on the effects of rapidly growing …

Prevalent fecal contamination in drinking water resources and potential health risks in Swat, Pakistan

K Khan, Y Lu, MA Saeed, H Bilal, H Sher… - Journal of …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Fecal bacteria contaminate water resources and result in associated waterborne diseases.
This study assessed drinking water quality and evaluated their potential health risks in Swat …

Estimation of water quality, management and risk assessment in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

MT Sohail, R Aftab, Y Mahfooz, A Yasar, Y Yen… - Desalination and Water …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
The present study is based on water quality assessment for drinking and irrigation purpose
in 10 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. A total of 181 water …

Human health risk assessment and water quality index of piped water supply system in Gulshan-E-Iqbal town, Karachi (A Preliminary Town level study)

A Alamgir, N Fatima - Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2024‏ - Springer
In the present study, piped water samples from Gulshan-e-Iqbal Town, Karachi, were
evaluated for their Health Risk Assessment (HRA) and Water Quality Index (WQI). For this …

[PDF][PDF] Heavy Metals Accumulation in Vegetables Irrigated with Industrial Influents and Possible Impact of such Vegetables on Human Health.

F Ali, H Ullah, I Khan - Sarhad Journal of Agriculture, 2017‏ - researchgate.net
The practice of using highly polluted wastewater for irrigation by local farmers since long has
contaminated the soil and now the pollution is being transferred to our food chain. An …

[HTML][HTML] Bioaccumulation and mobility of heavy metals in the soil-plant system and health risk assessment of vegetables irrigated by wastewater

MT Abbas, MA Wadaan, H Ullah, M Farooq, F Fozia… - Sustainability, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Accumulation of heavy metals in soil and vegetables is presently a challenging
environmental concern worldwide. The present study was designed to elucidate heavy …

[PDF][PDF] Public health assessment and water quality index of tanker water available in Karachi City

A Alamgir, MA Khan, T Iftikhar… - International Journal of …, 2021‏ - researchgate.net
The current assessment aimed to evaluate physico-chemical, metal and microbiological
characteristics along with Water Quality Index (WQI) of tanker water (12 samples) which …

[PDF][PDF] Plastic Waste Management! A Step towards Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainable Development in District Swat, Kpk, Pakistan

H Bilal, R Quraishi, FA Khan… - International Journal of …, 2016‏ - researchgate.net
The non-degradable nature of plastic bags is posing a wide range of serious environmental
and health deteriorations and hence are considered to be a big problem in waste …

[PDF][PDF] Physico-chemical and statistical evaluation of bore well water in two villages of Varanasi (Up), India

SK Tripathi, SK Vishwakarma - Int J Sci Res Environ Sci, 2015‏ - academia.edu
Groundwater quality of two villages, Chiraigaon and Bariyasanpur of Varanasi district was
assessed on the basis of physico-chemical parameters. In present study, total seven water …