The fundamentals of water and natural waters / Benjamin Cuker, George Bugyi -- Industrial and agricultural sources and pathways of aquatic pollution / Nikolaos Voulvoulis, Karyn Georges -- A review of emerging contaminants in water: classification, sources, and potential risks / Alexandros I. Stefanakis, Julie A. Becker -- Pharmaceuticals and personal care products as emerging water contaminants / Julie A. Becker, Alexandros I. Stefanakis -- Impacts of artisanal and small-scale gold mining on water quality in Mozambique and Zimbabwe / Never Mujere, Manuel Isidro -- Cyanobacterial toxins in water sources and their impacts on human health / Zakaria Mohamed -- Floodplain infrastructure and the toxic tide / Sanford R. Bender -- Nurses, healthcare, and environmental pollution and solutions: breaking the cycle of harm / A. Elaine McKeown -- Issues with water quality: how do we get our fellow citizens to care? / Rhana Smout Paris -- Design of the education campaign: creating a motivated, environmentally concerned public through improved scientific literacy / M. Chad Smith -- Health professionals can protect water quality: tools for educators, advocates, and practitioners / Rosemary Ziemba [and 4 others] -- Constructed wetlands: description and benefits of an eco-tech water treatment system / Alexandros I. Stefanakis -- Access to safe drinking water: a low income sustainable water purification system / Robert Cecil Willems, Steve A. MacDonald -- On-site sanitation systems for low-income countries: technical guidelines for groundwater pollution and nuisance control / Peter Appiah Obeng [and 6 others] -- Water hyacinth: characteristics, problems, control options, and beneficial uses / Never Mujere.