This book addresses issues related to sources of groundwater pollution such as arsenic uranium
fluoride and their effects on human health. It discusses extensively the removal of heavy
metals arsenic and fluoride from drinking water. Bioremediation and phyto remediation on
biomass productivity are treated in several chapters in the book. The volume highlights
leachate characteristics analysed both in the laboratory and in field studies assessing the
trace metals in rainwater.This book is a study on the judicious management of natural resources
and exposes environmental problems particularly those related to pollution and bioremediation.