Trends in Asian Water Environmental Science and Technology

Part 1: Wastewater Treatment and Monitoring.- 1. RSM and ANN-GA Experimental Design Optimization for Electrocoagulation Removal of Chromium.- 2. Sunlight-assisted Photo-Fenton Process for Removal of Insecticide from Agricultural Wastewater.- 3. Catalytic Reduction of Water Contaminant '4-Nitrophenol' over Manganese Oxide Supported Ni Nanoparticles.- 4. Simulation of Nitrate Removal in a Batch Flow Electrocoagulation-flotation (ECF) Process by Response Surface Method (RSM).- 5. Decolourization Studies of a Novel Textile Dye Degrading Bacterium.- 6. Preliminary Study of Rapid Enhanced Effective Micro-organisms (REEM) in Oil and Grease Trap from Canteen Wastewater.- 7. Step-feed Technology in SBR to Enhance the Treatment of Landfill Leachate.- 8. Response Surface Optimization of Phosphate Removal from Aqueous Solution Using a Natural Adsorbent.- 9. Removal of Pharmaceuticals from Water Using Adsorption.- Part 2: Hydrological and Quality Issues.- 10. Hydrological Regimes and Zooplankton Ecology at Tempe Floodplains, Indonesia: Preliminary Study before the Operation of the Downstream Barrage.- 11. Organics and Heavy Metals Content in River Receiving the Effluent of Municipal Landfill Leachate Treatment.- 12. Tracing the Significance of River for Arsenic Enrichment and Mobilization.- 13. Evaluation of Groundwater Quality in 14 Districts in Sri Lanka: A Collaboration Research between Sri Lanka and Japan.- 14. Arsenic Contamination in Groundwater Affecting Holocene Aquifers of India: A Review.- 15. Water Quality Evaluation in a Rural Stretch of Tezpur, Assam (India) Using Water Quality Index and Correlation Matrix.- 16. Meltwater Quality and Quantity Assessment in the Himalayan Glaciers.- 17. Delineation of Point Sources of Recharge in Karst Settings.- 18. Identify the Major Reasons to Cause Vulnerability to Mekong Delta under the Impacts of Drought and Climate Change.- 19. Multi-pathway Risk Assessment of Trihalomethanes Exposure in Drinking Water Supplies.- 20.The

Dr. Futoshi Kurisu is an associate professor at the Research Center for Water Environment Technology (RECWET), University of Tokyo. He received the excellent paper award for young scientists from the Japan Society of Civil Engineering in 2001. He has also won the Takeda Techno-Entrepreneurship Award and Kurita Excellent Research Award for Water and Environmental Studies, in 2002 and 2010, respectively. He has published more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and is a member of the Japan Society on Water Environment, Japan Society of Microbial Ecology, Japan Society of Civil Engineering, Japan Society of Environmental Biotechnology, Japan Society of Water Treatment Biology, International Water Association, and the International Society of Microbial Ecology. His current research interests are microbial enhancement of soil/groundwater bioremediation, microbial analysis of biological water/wastewater treatment processes, and water quality evaluation of water resources for reuse. Prof. AL. Ramanathan, Ph.D. in sedimentary geochemistry, is currently a Professor at the School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He is engaged in various aspects of coastal research, including nutrient dynamics, paleo environments, source identification etc., with a number of universities and research organizations in India, Australia, Russia, the USA, etc. He has supervised several Ph.D.'s in the areas above and published more than 60 papers in respected peer-reviewed journals. He has also published 5 books and several book chapters. He received three IFS Sweden (Project) Awards to work on Mangrove biogeochemistry, in addition to working on national and international Indo-Australian, Indo-Russian, DST, MoEF, and MoWR projects. He was a post-doctoral fellow in the STA Japan program, UGC-Russian Academy of Science program, CSIR, INSA, DST, etc. He is Chief Editor of the Journal of Climate Change, a member of the editorial board for the