Impact of marble industry effluents on water and sediment quality of Barandu River in Buner District, Pakistan

Mulk, Shahi; Azizullah, Azizullah; Korai, A. L.; Khattak, Muhammad Nasir Khan

doi:10.1007/s10661-014-4221-8

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“…The degradation and deterioration in the water quality of our rivers portends us not only of worsening water shortages and potential conflicts over meager supplies but escalating ecological damage (Mulk et al, 2015). All these ultimately, decline the quality of life for many people (Pearce and Turner, 1990) either by reducing the availability of fresh water for consumption or by transmission of germs and carcinogenic substances.…”

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Seasonal Variations in Water Quality Parameters of River Yamuna, India

Hassan¹,

Parveen²,

Bhat³

et al. 2017

Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci

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Seasonal Variations in Water Quality Parameters of River Yamuna, India

Hassan¹,

Parveen²,

Bhat³

et al. 2017

Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci

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“…The marble industrial effluents contain harmful compounds, toxic metals, and suspended solids, which are nonbiodegradable in nature [33]. Discharge of these untreated marble industry effluents to water bodies and agricultural land causes water and soil pollution [16].…”

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“…Heavy metal (HM) contamination in rice has mostly come from the soil in which it is cultivated [14]. Unfortunately, the industrial sector in Pakistan produces about 1.309 × 10 9 m 3 wastewater annually and discharge into freshwater resources or agricultural land that cause contamination of the water bodies [15,16]. Hence, the farmers in the country are reluctant to use contaminated water to meet the water requirement of the crops [17].…”

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Energy-Dispersive X-ray (EDX) fluorescence based analysis of heavy metals in marble powder, paddy soil and rice (Oryza sativa L.) with potential health risks in District Malakand, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Khan

Hadi

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Environmental Pollutants and Bioavailability

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Rice is staple food of Asian countries including Pakistan. Contamination of paddyfields with marble waste containing toxic metals has emerged as a key public health concern. Current study aimed to analyze heavy metal concentrations in marble powder, paddy soil and rice crop to estimate probable human health risks in District Malakand of Pakistan. Triplicate dry samples were analyzed through Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence spectroscopy (ED-XRF). The marble waste increased the concentration of metals in paddy soil, subsequent increase in metals accumulation was found in rice grains. In grains the maximum concentration (mg/kg) of Fe (50.70), Cu (17.60), Mn (7.49) and Al (6.80) exceeded the permissible limits of FAO/WHO. The cumulative hazard index (HI) value from heavy metals through consumption of rice was greater than unity (HI > 1) indicating potential health risks. The results of Pearson correlation, Principal component analysis (PCA), and cluster analysis (CA) for metals were consistent.

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“…For example, the tension of the rope and its suspended weight has a relationship to surrounding Such extended relations include the many significant environmental effects of marble production and transport. The manufacturing systems of this industry are reported to negatively impact river ecologies (Mulk et al, 2015), cause localised air pollution and soil toxicity (Hanieh, AbdElall and Hasan, 2014), and produce large amounts of waste, especially those associated with traditional explosive quarrying techniques (Liguori et al, 2008: 198-9). As much as 70 percent of quarried stone can be wasted during extraction, cutting, and finishing.…”

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Affect and the Experimental Design of Domestic Products

Keulemans

2017

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This research is concerned with the experimental design of furniture and homewares, and their affective relationships to issues of production, consumption and the environment. Most massproduced domestic objects use standardised designs and materials, which, apart from their oftennoted detrimental effects on the environment, also limit the possibilities for expressivity and affective encounter. Experimental design practices can open up spaces for affective relations with domestic objects. This research proposes that a particular process, that of 'repair', can facilitate these encounters. Transformative practices of repair mobilise intensities, which create new possibilities for re-situating our thinking about, and place within, production and consumption. These different modes of repair are conveyed through the practice-based research, which forms the core of this thesis. Three experimental design groups from the last fifty years-Italian radical design, Dutch conceptual design and critical design-are examined in this dissertation as the context in which this practice-based research can be located. Practices of these groups which implicitly resonate with concepts of affect are identified. Focus is given to works that address issues of environmental concern, such as consumerism, pollution and product obsolescence. Concepts of affect from the philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari are used illuminate these relationships and interrogate how domestic objects and their perception might be better understood. The quality of 'anomaly'-objects that seem to exist outside or on the border of their design type-is shown to be pivotal to these affective operations. Concepts of affect are also used to critique dominant industrial design techniques that emphasise the appeal of surfaces and reduce consumer awareness of their products' material ecologies. Repair is proposed as an alternative technique for production. The traditional Japanese craft of kintsugi is used to demonstrate the propensity of repaired objects to embody dual perceptions of environmental catastrophe and amelioration. I discuss in detail three of my own works, which deploy techniques of experimental design and repair to catalyse awareness of processes of production and consumption, and their consequences for the environment.

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Impact of marble industry effluents on water and sediment quality of Barandu River in Buner District, Pakistan

Cited by 40 publications

References 9 publications

Seasonal Variations in Water Quality Parameters of River Yamuna, India

Seasonal Variations in Water Quality Parameters of River Yamuna, India

Energy-Dispersive X-ray (EDX) fluorescence based analysis of heavy metals in marble powder, paddy soil and rice (Oryza sativa L.) with potential health risks in District Malakand, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Affect and the Experimental Design of Domestic Products

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