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  1. Are earthworms the victim, facilitator or antidote of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance at the soil-animal-human interface? A One-Health perspective
  2. Emerging organic contaminants in drinking water systems: Human intake, emerging health risks, and future research directions
  3. Insects to the rescue? Insights into applications, mechanisms, and prospects of insect-driven remediation of organic contaminants
  4. Materials for sustainable metallic iron-based water filters: a review
  5. Climate warming, environmental degradation and pollution as drivers of antibiotic resistance
  6. Effects of common dissolved anions on the efficiency of Fe0-based remediation systems
  7. Emerging organic contaminants in the soil–plant-receptor continuum: transport, fate, health risks, and removal mechanisms
  8. Human viral pathogens in the wastewater-source water-drinking water continuum: Evidence, health risks, and lessons for future outbreaks in low-income settings
  9. Improving acid-stressed anaerobic digestion processes with biochar - towards a combined biomass and carbon management system
  10. Mitigating flash flooding in the city: Drain or harvest?
  11. Unveiling the dark side of beauty? Beauty parlours as potential pollution and human exposure hotspots
  12. An overview of agro-industrial wastewater treatment using microbial fuel cells: Recent advancements
  13. Respiratory syncytial virus immunoprophylaxis: Novel opportunities and a call for equity
  14. The soil-microbe-plant resistome: A focus on the source-pathway-receptor continuum
  15. Recycling and Disposal of Spent Metal(loid)‐Laden Adsorbents
  16. Remediation of Heavy Metals
  17. Metallic iron for environmental remediation: the still overlooked iron chemistry
  18. Combating antibiotic resistance using wastewater surveillance: Significance, applications, challenges, and future directions
  19. Mechanical and contaminant leaching behaviour of cement-based and fired bricks incorporating ferrochrome slag
  20. Pharmaceuticals in wastewater and their photocatalytic degradation using nano-enabled photocatalysts
  21. Critical evaluation of biochar effects on methane production and process stability in anaerobic digestion
  22. Influence of Water Salinity on the Efficiency of Fe0-Based Systems for Water Treatment
  23. The bacterial biofilm resistome in drinking water distribution systems: A systematic review
  24. Quantification of bio-wastes availability for bioenergy production in Zimbabwe
  25. Chicanery in the food supply chain! Food fraud, mitigation, and research needs in low-income countries
  26. Understanding the process of phosphate removal in Fe0/H2O systems using the methylene blue method
  27. The pit latrine paradox in low-income settings: A sanitation technology of choice or a pollution hotspot?
  28. A clay-coal fly ash based dual hydraulic-reactive liner for controlling acid mine drainage
  29. Developing the Ascorbic Acid Test: A Candidate Standard Tool for Characterizing the Intrinsic Reactivity of Metallic Iron for Water Remediation
  30. Carbon stock, aggregate stability and hydraulic properties of soils under tillage, crop rotation and mineral fertiliser application in sub-humid Zimbabwe
  31. Integrated Water Management in Mountain Communities: The Case of Feutap in the Municipality of Bangangté, Cameroon
  32. mRNA vaccines: The future of prevention of viral infections?
  33. Closing Blank Spots and Illuminating Blind Spots in Research on Emerging Contaminants: The Source–Pathway–Receptor–Impact–Mitigation (SPRIM) Continuum as an Organizing Framework
  34. Household Disposal of Pharmaceuticals in Low-Income Settings: Practices, Health Hazards, and Research Needs
  35. Grappling with (re)-emerging infectious zoonoses: Risk assessment, mitigation framework, and future directions
  36. Conceptualizing the Fe0/H2O System: A Call for Collaboration to Mark the 30th Anniversary of the Fe0-Based Permeable Reactive Barrier Technology
  37. Circular bioeconomy potential and challenges within an African context: From theory to practice
  38. Realizing the potential of metallic iron for the mitigation of toxics: flee or adapt?
  39. Metallic iron (Fe0)-based materials for aqueous phosphate removal: A critical review
  40. Strategies and options for the sustainable recovery of rare earth elements from electrical and electronic waste
  41. Kanchan Arsenic Filters for Household Water Treatment: Unsuitable or Unsustainable?
  42. Correction: Qiu et al. Detection and Quantification of Dam Leakages Based on Tracer Tests: A Field Case Study. Water 2022, 14, 1448
  43. Metallic Iron for Water Remediation: Plenty of Room for Collaboration and Convergence to Advance the Science
  44. Detection and Quantification of Dam Leakages Based on Tracer Tests: A Field Case Study
  45. Investigating the Fe0/H2O systems using the methylene blue method: Validity, applications, and future directions
  46. Wastewater, waste, and water-based epidemiology (WWW-BE): A novel hypothesis and decision-support tool to unravel COVID-19 in low-income settings?
  47. Visible light photodegradation of methyl orange and Escherichia coli O157:H7 in wastewater
  48. The Suitability of Hybrid Fe0/Aggregate Filtration Systems for Water Treatment
  49. COVID-19 drugs in aquatic systems: a review
  50. The air-borne antibiotic resistome: Occurrence, health risks, and future directions
  51. Occurrence, human exposure pathways, and health risks of (micro)plastics
  52. Occurrence and behaviour of emerging organic contaminants in aquatic systems
  53. Anthropogenic rare earth elements in aquatic environments: Occurrence, behaviour, and fate
  54. Ecological health risks of emerging organic contaminants
  55. Ten (10) key research questions on emerging contaminants and novel entities, and their health risks
  56. Health risk assessment and mitigation of emerging contaminants: A call for an integrated approach
  57. Emerging contaminants in the terrestrial-aquatic-atmosphere continuum: A global perspective
  58. Occurrence and ecological health risks of microplastics
  59. Ecological health risks of high-technology rare earth elements
  60. The environmental resistome: Human exposure, health risks, and research needs
  61. Emerging Contaminants in the Terrestrial-Aquatic-Atmosphere Continuum:
  62. (Micro)plastics in the soil system: Occurrence, behaviour, fate, and future directions
  63. High-technology rare earth elements in the soil-plant system: Occurrence, behaviour, and fate
  64. Rare earth elements: Human exposure, risk factors, and health risks
  65. Copyright
  66. Index
  67. Dedication
  68. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes in aquatic systems: Occurrence, behaviour, and fate
  69. Front Matter
  70. (Micro)plastics in aquatic systems: Current research focal areas, under-studied matrices, and future directions
  71. Air-borne emerging contaminants: An under-studied reservoir and a potential health risk?
  72. Ecological health risks of antibiotic resistance: A perspective on the evidence, challenges, and research needs
  73. Emerging contaminants: A handful of conceptual and organizing frameworks
  74. Epilogue: Summary, the next-frontier emerging contaminants/novel entities, and a look ahead
  75. Preface
  76. Acknowledgements
  77. Editor biography
  78. COVID-19 pandemic in Uttarakhand, India: Environmental recovery or degradation?
  79. A Hybrid Model for Achieving Universal Safe Drinking Water in the Medium-Sized City of Bangangté (Cameroon)
  80. COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  81. Antibiotic resistance and class 1 integron genes distribution in irrigation water-soil-crop continuum as a function of irrigation water sources
  82. Organic pollutants in deep sea: Occurrence, fate, and ecological implications
  83. The mechanism of contaminant removal in Fe(0)/H2O systems: The burden of a poor literature review
  84. Recent advances in the polyurethane-based adsorbents for the decontamination of hazardous wastewater pollutants
  85. Universal Access to Safe Drinking Water: Escaping the Traps of Non-Frugal Technologies
  86. Changes in physicochemical properties on a chronosequence of gold mine tailings
  87. Application of the Kilimanjaro Concept in Reversing Seawater Intrusion and Securing Water Supply in Zanzibar, Tanzania
  88. Integrated Water Resource Management: Rethinking the Contribution of Rainwater Harvesting
  89. Microplastics in the Aquatic Environment—The Occurrence, Sources, Ecological Impacts, Fate, and Remediation Challenges
  90. The key role of contact time in elucidating the mechanisms of enhanced decontamination by Fe0/MnO2/sand systems
  91. Occurrence, Human Health Risks, and Removal of Pharmaceuticals in Aqueous Systems: Current Knowledge and Future Perspectives
  92. Characterizing the impact of MnO2 addition on the efficiency of Fe0/H2O systems
  93. Occurrence, behavior, and human exposure and health risks of potentially toxic elements in edible mushrooms with focus on Africa
  94. Defluoridation of drinking water using a ceramic filter decorated with iron oxide‐biochar composites
  95. Toxic Geogenic Contaminants in Serpentinitic Geological Systems: Occurrence, Behavior, Exposure Pathways, and Human Health Risks
  96. Rethinking restoration indicators and end-points for post-mining landscapes in light of novel ecosystems
  97. The Suitability of Methylene Blue Discoloration (MB Method) to Investigate the Fe0/MnO2 System
  98. When silence goes viral, Africa sneezes! A perspective on Africa's subdued research response to COVID-19 and a call for local scientific evidence
  99. Acid Mine Drainage Formation, Dissemination and Control: Mining and Hydrological Perspectives
  100. Characterizing the impact of pyrite addition on the efficiency of Fe0/H2O systems
  101. Insects, Rodents, and Pets as Reservoirs, Vectors, and Sentinels of Antimicrobial Resistance
  102. Dangerous liaisons? As the COVID-19 wave hits Africa with potential for novel transmission dynamics: a perspective
  103. Leaving no stone unturned in light of the COVID-19 faecal-oral hypothesis? A water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) perspective targeting low-income countries
  104. Biochars as media for air pollution control systems: Contaminant removal, applications and future research directions
  105. Autopsy, thanatopraxy, cemeteries and crematoria as hotspots of toxic organic contaminants in the funeral industry continuum
  106. Kanchan Arsenic Filters and the Future of Fe0-Based Filtration Systems for Single Household Drinking Water Supply
  107. The ‘thanato-resistome’ - The funeral industry as a potential reservoir of antibiotic resistance: Early insights and perspectives
  108. Sources and Health Risks of Rare Earth Elements in Waters
  109. Maize nitrogen uptake and productivity under reduced and conventional tillage
  110. Comparative removal efficiencies of natural organic matter by conventional drinking water treatment plants in Zimbabwe and South Africa
  111. Validating the Efficiency of the FeS2 Method for Elucidating the Mechanisms of Contaminant Removal Using Fe0/H2O Systems
  112. Biochar‐Based Adsorbents for the Removal of Organic Pollutants from Aqueous Systems
  113. Tracing the Scientific History of Fe0-Based Environmental Remediation Prior to the Advent of Permeable Reactive Barriers
  114. Leguminous tree species create islands of fertility and influence the understory vegetation on nickel-mine tailings of different ages
  115. Development and evaluation of a low-cost ceramic filter for the removal of methyl orange, hexavalent chromium, and Escherichia coli from water
  116. Designing the Next Generation of Fe0-Based Filters for Decentralized Safe Drinking Water Treatment: A Conceptual Framework
  117. Characterizing the Reactivity of Metallic Iron for Water Treatment: H2 Evolution in H2SO4 and Uranium Removal Efficiency
  118. Development, properties and potential applications of high-energy fuel briquettes incorporating coal dust, biowastes and post-consumer plastics
  119. Understanding the Operating Mode of Fe0/Fe-Sulfide/H2O Systems for Water Treatment
  120. Metallic Iron for Environmental Remediation: Starting an Overdue Progress in Knowledge
  121. A new generation low-cost biochar-clay composite ‘biscuit’ ceramic filter for point-of-use water treatment
  122. Sources, behaviour and health risks of antimicrobial resistance genes in wastewaters: A hotspot reservoir
  123. Occurrence, behaviour, and human exposure pathways and health risks of toxic geogenic contaminants in serpentinitic ultramafic geological environments (SUGEs): A medical geology perspective
  124. A BIOCHAR-BASED POINT-OF-USE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM FOR THE REMOVAL OF FLUORIDE, CHROMIUM AND BRILLIANT BLUE DYE IN TERNARY SYSTEMS
  125. Occurrence of biological crusts and their relationship with vegetation on a chronosequence of abandoned gold mine tailings
  126. Making Rainwater Harvesting a Key Solution for Water Management: The Universality of the Kilimanjaro Concept
  127. Characterizing the Suitability of Granular Fe0 for the Water Treatment Industry
  128. Water Treatment Using Metallic Iron: A Tutorial Review
  129. Biological crusts enhance fertility and texture of gold mine tailings
  130. Cross-Layer Leaching of Coal Fly Ash and Mine Tailings to Control Acid Generation from Mine Wastes
  131. Evaluation of the phytotoxicity of coal ash on lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) germination, growth and metal uptake
  132. Effect of Nitrogen Fertiliser Application on Maize Yield Across Agro-Ecological Regions and Soil Types in Zimbabwe: A Meta-analysis Approach
  133. Antibiotic resistance in drinking water systems: Occurrence, removal, and human health risks
  134. Fe0/H2O Filtration Systems for Decentralized Safe Drinking Water: Where to from Here?
  135. White Teeth and Healthy Skeletons for All: The Path to Universal Fluoride-Free Drinking Water in Tanzania
  136. Recurrent Cholera Outbreaks in Sub-Saharan Africa: Moving beyond Epidemiology to Understand the Environmental Reservoirs and Drivers
  137. Carbon Sequestration via Biomineralization: Processes, Applications and Future Directions
  138. Fe0/H2O Systems for Environmental Remediation: The Scientific History and Future Research Directions
  139. Sources, behaviour, and environmental and human health risks of high-technology rare earth elements as emerging contaminants
  140. Development, engineering properties and potential applications of unfired earth bricks reinforced by coal fly ash, lime and wood aggregates
  141. Potential Leaching of Heavy Metals from Pristine and Accelerated Weathered Slag from Recycling of Automobile Lead-Acid Batteries
  142. Detection of saturation of fluoride filters
  143. Organic contaminants in African aquatic systems: Current knowledge, health risks, and future research directions
  144. Comparative fertilization effects on maize productivity under conservation and conventional tillage on sandy soils in a smallholder cropping system in Zimbabwe
  145. Ecotoxicological effects of citrus processing waste on earthworms, Lumbricus terrestris L.
  146. Sorptive removal of methylene blue from simulated wastewater using biochars derived from pulp and paper sludge
  147. Synthesis and nutrient release patterns of a biochar-based N–P–K slow-release fertilizer
  148. Concentration-discharge patterns in a small urban headwater stream in a seasonally dry water-limited tropical environment
  149. Biochar-based water treatment systems as a potential low-cost and sustainable technology for clean water provision
  150. An assessment of smallholder soil and water conservation practices and perceptions in contrasting agro-ecological regions in Zimbabwe
  151. Removal of Trace Metals from Acid Mine Drainage Using a Sequential Combination of Coal Ash-Based Adsorbents and Phytoremediation by Bunchgrass (Vetiver [Vetiveria zizanioides L])
  152. PREDICTING ACID ROCK DRAINAGE FROM A NICKEL MINE WASTE PILE AND METAL LEVELS IN SURROUNDING SOILS
  153. Comparative Adsorption of Zn2+ from Aqueous Solution Using Hydroxylated and Sulphonated Biochars Derived from Pulp and Paper Sludge
  154. Biosorbents for the removal of synthetic organics and emerging pollutants: Opportunities and challenges for developing countries
  155. Comparative short-term effects of sewage sludge and its biochar on soil properties, maize growth and uptake of nutrients on a tropical clay soil in Zimbabwe
  156. Potential for leaching of heavy metals in open-burning bottom ash and soil from a non-engineered solid waste landfill
  157. Evaluation of heavy metal leaching from coal ash-versus conventional concrete monoliths and debris
  158. Synthesis, characterisation and methyl orange adsorption capacity of ferric oxide–biochar nano-composites derived from pulp and paper sludge
  159. Potential uses and value-added products derived from waste polystyrene in developing countries: A review
  160. Removal of Zn2+ and Pb2+ ions from aqueous solution using sulphonated waste polystyrene
  161. Water quality and public health risks associated with roof rainwater harvesting systems for potable supply: Review and perspectives
  162. Partitioning of turbulent flux reveals contrasting cooling potential for woody vegetation and grassland during heat waves
  163. Biochar production and applications in sub-Saharan Africa: Opportunities, constraints, risks and uncertainties
  164. Maize Water Productivity and Its Relationship to Soil Properties under Integrated Cattle Manure and Mineral-Nitrogen Fertilizer in a Smallholder Cropping System
  165. Does hydrocarbon contamination induce water repellency and changes in hydraulic properties in inherently wettable tropical sandy soils?
  166. Hydrological Impacts of Urbanization and Urban Roof Water Harvesting in Water-limited Catchments: A Review
  167. Adsorption of Zn2+ and Ni2+ in a binary aqueous solution by biosorbents derived from sawdust and water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes)
  168. Transpiration and water relations of evergreen shrub species on an artificial landform for mine waste storage versus an adjacent natural site in semi-arid Western Australia
  169. Understanding the causes, socio-economic and environmental impacts, and management of veld fires in tropical Zimbabwe
  170. Transpiration and plant water relations of evergreen woody vegetation on a recently constructed artificial ecosystem under seasonally dry conditions in Western Australia
  171. Understanding the role of ecohydrological feedbacks in ecosystem state change in drylands
  172. Field-scale spatial variability of saturated hydraulic conductivity on a recently constructed artificial ecosystem
  173. Spatial analysis of fine root distribution on a recently constructed ecosystem in a water-limited environment
  174. Spatial analysis of fine root distribution on a recently constructed ecosystem in a water-limited environment
  175. Soil-vegetation feedbacks as a driver for early ecosystems development in the context of mine site rehabilitation
  176. Spatial variability of hydraulic properties on a bauxite residue disposal area in Western Australia
  177. Spatial distribution of fine roots on a rehabilitated bauxite residue disposal area in Western Australia
  178. Long-term impacts of pasture irrigation with treated sewage effluent on shallow groundwater quality
  179. Effects of tillage systems on soil organic carbon dynamics, structural stability and crop yields in irrigated wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)–cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) rotation in semi-arid Zimbabwe
  180. Long-term impacts of pasture irrigation with treated sewage effluent on nutrient status of a sandy soil in Zimbabwe
  181. Irrigation with ponds effluent – impacts on soils and groundwater