Preface
Chapter 1
Health risk associated with hospital effluents
Aarfa Queen, Mohammad Yusuf, Abdul Qadir and Sakina Aamir
Chapter 2
Pharmaceuticals measurements and estimation methods
Nastaran Mozaffari, Stefan Talu, Niloofar Mozaffari, Mika Sillanpaeae, Viola Vambol and Sergij Vambol
Chapter 3
Occurrence of COVID-19 virus in hospital wastewater: treatment pathways and sustainability aspects
Biswajit Debnath, Ruchitha K. Birawat, Khushbu K. Birawat and Anisha Modak
Chapter 4
Bioremediation of pharmaceutical effluent by food industry and agricultural waste biomass
Parisa Ziarati, Maryam Mokhtarzadeh, Viola Vambol, Sergij Vambol, Barbara Sawicka, Alaa El Din Mahmoud and Nadeem A. Khan
Chapter 5
Case studies of hospital effluent in urban treatment plants of other countries (USA/Canada)
Ana G. Pazmino-Sosa, Nishana P. Ramsawak and Nastaran Mozaffari
Chapter 6
Groundwater contamination by hospital effluent with a focus on carbamazepine and sulfamethoxazole
Maria Alejandra Villa Arroyave, Mariana Gomez Ospina, Maria Alejandra Cruz Bolanos, Thiago Victor Medeiros do Nascimento and Jan Willem Foppen
Chapter 7
Case studies of hospital effluent in Ukraine urban treatment plants
Kravets Natalia and Trach Iryna
Chapter 8
Sri Lanka National Hospital (NHSL) wastewater treatment
Tino Christen Bogdana Marinova, Reto V. Schulthess and Roland Metzler
Chapter 9
Hospital wastewater treatment scenario in India
Rishi Rathi
Chapter 10
Hospital wastewater treatment in Nepal: Status, challenges and future perspectives (case studies of effluent management in Nepal)
Amrita Gautam, Krishna Ram Yendyo, Prabina Shrestha, Isha Manandhar, Sagar Kunwar, Sudan Panthi and Anish Ghimire
Interview Section
Rowe Michels, Rick McGregor, Shannon Spurlock
Index
