A Systematic Review of Heavy-Metal Mess in Water Bodies: Sources, Risk-Checking, and the Wild World of Bioremediation

Authors: Ravi Kumar Banjare, Pankaj Soni

Country: India

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Abstract: Heavy-metal pollution inside rivers, lakes and even tucked-away groundwater has snow-balled into a stubborn worldwide headache. Because these metals neither rot away nor vanish on their own, they pile up, tip the ecological scales, and slowly creep into human food and water. This redo of the literature takes a deep, slightly rambling dive into where the metals spring from (natural crust events plus the far bigger human-made ones), how scientists actually size up the danger to fish, bugs, and people, and why bioremediation in all its plant-, fungus-, and bacterium-powered glory keeps popping up in journals as the “greener, cheaper” fix, though it is far from a silver bullet. By stitching together dozens of studies, the review flags big blank spots in current knowledge, coughs up the nagging technical hurdles field engineers still face, and hints at where future lab and on-site work ought to point next.

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Paper Id: 232607

Published On: 2020-01-08

Published In: Volume 8, Issue 1, January-February 2020

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