The book presents a comprehensive overview of various contaminants in the groundwater. The book delves deeper into case studies from MENA, Africa, and Asia regions. Groundwater in these countries is primarily used for drinking and is often consumed without any prior treatment. Thus, millions of the population are primarily exposed to various waterborne diseases. Hence, understanding the contaminant's sources, pathways, and mechanisms of release into the groundwater can unhide various aspects of pollutants. This book will help understand groundwater contaminants across MENA, Africa, and Asia. Divided into three sections, the first section discusses groundwater contaminants in the MENA (Middle East North Africa), Morocco, and Egypt Regions. Contaminants such as heavy metals, organic and inorganic pollutants, and various other geogenic and anthropogenic contaminants were covered. Case studies are presented in this section to understand groundwater contaminants better. The second section comprises other African regions. Broadly, the section delved into case studies from Nigeria, Cameroon, Djibouti, and Madagaskar. The third section discusses groundwater contaminants in Asia. It discusses case studies from Turkiye and India. The book help readers understand numerous contaminants from MENA, Africa, and Asia. It is also immensely useful to students, researchers, stakeholders, concerned NGOs, hydrologists, etc.
Dr. Shakir Ali is a Postdoc Research Fellow at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Dr. Shakir's research domains include groundwater contaminants, particularly fluoride, environmental isotopes, and groundwater modelling. He has published 35+ research articles in international peer-reviewed journals and edited five books with Springer as a senior editor, including two in the HEC top series of Springer. Dr. Shakir has received 1400+ Google Scholar citations to date. He earned a master's degree in hydrogeology from the prestigious Institute of India, IIT Bombay, and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Delhi. He has 10+ of research and teaching experience in the field of hydrogeology. Dr. Shakir has qualified for several competitive exams in India and received numerous scholarships. He serves as a reviewer for dozens of international journals published by Springer and Elsevier and has reviewed 100+ articles. He has also served as an Assistant Professor at Himachal Pradesh University.
Prof. Abdelazim Negm is a Professor of Hydraulics (and Water Resources) at the Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, Egypt, since 2004. He received his Ph.D. in 1992 from Zagazig University (ZU) and his M.Sc. from Ain Shams University in 1990. He was the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at ZU from 12/2008 to 12/2011, and the head of the Environmental Engineering Department at the Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST), Egypt, from October 2013 to March 2016. He has participated in several international projects from 2006 to the present and has led others. He published more than 400 papers in national and international journals and conferences, and contributed to more than 50 book chapters published by Springer Publishing House. Some of his papers were awarded the prize of the best papers. He is the editor of more than 60 Springer books, including 12 volumes in the Springer Handbook of Environmental Chemistry (HEC) Series. He is a member of the scientific committees of several international conferences, a member of the organizing committees of others, and has participated in more than 90 conferences. He delivered several keynote talks at international conferNegm is a reviewer of more than 50 international scientific journals indexed in Scopus and WoS. He was the editor-in-chief of EIJEST from 2017 to 2020, an editor of the EMJEI, published by Springer, and an associate editor of the Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences and Scientific African Journal, both published by Elsevier. He is also a member of the editorial boards of several scientific journals. Moreover, he is a member of the editorial board of the famous Springer Series titled Handbook of Environmental Chemistry since 2019 and the head of the permanent scientific committee on Water Resources (committee no.115), the Supreme Council of Egyptian Universities, Egypt. Prof. Negm is listed in the most famous and prestigious directories in the world including the American Biographical Institute (ABI), Inc, USA, "Marquis Who's Who in the World," 27th Ed., 2010, USA, until now and in IBC's 2000 as an Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century by International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England, since 2011 until the present. He was nominated for various awards by both ABI and IBC from 2011 to 2012.
