"This book provides readers with a better understanding of the consequences of pesticide use in different ecosystems and its implications on water bodies around the world. The potential risk to human health, extensive pollution to the environment, their accumulation potential in different trophic levels is a matter of great concern to researchers and is discussed"--.

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Book Series
• Dedication
• Editorial Advisory Board
• List of Contributors
• Table of Contents
• Detailed Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgment
• Section 1: Pesticides in Water
  • Chapter 1: Pesticides as Water Pollutants
  • Chapter 2: Pesticide Sources, Their Fate, and Different Ways to Impact Aquatic Organisms
  • Chapter 3: Organochlorine Pesticides
  • Chapter 4: Status of Indian Wetlands With Special Reference to Pesticides and Their Impact
• Section 2: Pesticides and Human Health
  • Chapter 5: Pesticide and Human Health
  • Chapter 6: Health Effects of Pesticides on Pregnant Women and Children
  • Chapter 7: Pesticide Contaminated Drinking Water and Health Effects on Pregnant Women and Children
  • Chapter 8: Pesticide Contamination and Human Health
• Section 3: Pesticides and Aquatic Life
  • Chapter 9: Pesticides and Their Impact on Aquatic Microorganisms
  • Chapter 10: Impact of Pesticides on Aquatic Life
  • Chapter 11: Impact of Pesticides on Invertebrates in Aquatic Ecosystem
• Section 4: Pesticide Hazards, Analysis, and Purification
  • Chapter 12: Pesticides as an Occupational Hazard Facts and Figures
  • Chapter 13: Advances and Evolution of Techniques for Pesticide Estimation
  • Chapter 14: Cost-Effective Methods of Monitoring Pesticide Pollution in Water
  • Chapter 15: Occurrence of Pesticides and Their Removal From Aquatic Medium by Adsorption
  • Chapter 16: Residual Analysis of Pesticides in Surface Water of Nagpur, India
  • Chapter 17: Pesticide Analysis Techniques, Limitations, and Applications
  • Chapter 18: Computational Tools and Techniques to Predict Aquatic Toxicity of Some Halogenated Pollutants
  • Chapter 19: Water Purification Using Different Chemical Treatment
• Section 5: Biopesticides, Sustainability, Global Warming
  • Chapter 20: Prospects of Pesticide Contamination and Control Measures in Aquatic Systems
  • Chapter 21: Biopesticide Techniques to Remediate Pesticides in Polluted Ecosystems
  • Chapter 22: Organic Farming
  • Chapter 23: Global Warming and Pesticides in Water Bodies
• Compilation of References
• About the Contributors
• Index