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Emerging Contaminants and Public Health: Environmental Risk and Innovative Controls

Abdul-Wahab Tahiru*, Ebenezer John Atsugah, Samuel Jerry Cobbina

An estimated 12.6 million people died as a result of living or working in an unhealthy environment in 2012 – nearly 1 in 4 of total global deaths, according to new estimates from WHO. Environmental risk factors, such as air, water and soil pollution, chemical exposures, climate change, and ultraviolet radiation, contribute to more than 100 diseases and injuries. The growing challenges and negative impacts of emerging contaminates posing risk in human health and the environmental ecosystem in recent decades especially in groundwater, surface water, municipal wastewater, drinking water, and food sources has raised an alarming concern globally. Regardless of the numerous risks identified and associated with emerging contaminates, it is believed that not much work is done in terms of research, policies and strategies. The efficient and cost-effective solutions are yet to be deployed at scale.

This review has made recommendations base on literature review that can be adopted, improved on to help develop a more adoptive innovative treatment technology to manage emerging contaminates.