Water Pollution

*Water Pollution* is an academic textbook and reference guide co-authored by V. P. Kudesia, Ritu Kudesia, and Manika Barar. Published in print by **Pragati Prakashan**, the work serves undergraduate students, postgraduate scholars, and researchers specializing in Chemistry, Environmental Science, Civil Engineering, and adjacent environmental disciplines. The text provides a systematic, application-oriented overview of water quality management, pollution assessment, and treatment technologies, with a specific focus on the environmental landscape of India. The volume covers a wide range of foundational and advanced topics, including water balance dynamics, pollution kinetics, and reaction mechanisms. It details modern instrumental and analytical techniques used to detect environmental pollutants, along with chemical disinfection methods utilizing chlorine, bromine, iodine, chlorine dioxide, and potassium permanganate. The authors examine distinct pollution vectors—such as pesticides, herbicides, plastics, heavy metals, radioactive materials, and marine pollutants—and evaluate large-scale ecological initiatives including the Ganga Action Plan, river water quality modelling (with a spe