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This book provides insight into the environmental and ecological impacts of the operations of intensive rural industries and how these undesirable impacts can be effectively managed. In the developing economies, the different human empowerment and poverty alleviation schemes have produced myriads of intensive rural industries that littered States in these economies. These industries are often characterized by their small scale, outmoded technology, obsolete equipment, poor management and large water consumption. Since their operations usually consume large volume of fresh water, high magnitude of untreated wastewater is equally discharged. The huge consumption of freshwater puts a lot of stress on freshwater resource available for human use, and the discharge of contaminated wastewater from these industries disrupts the ecological balance. It has been reported that untreated industrial waste constitutes about two-thirds of the total waste discharge into water bodies, and the largest chunk of this is derived from rural enterprises. Therefore, the environmental cost of rural industrialization is enormous and needs to be examined. The evaluation of the quality characteristics, the socioeconomic impacts and the law guiding the generation and the discharge of the wastewater from specific rural industries are enunciated. The conventional practice and the trends in the effective management of specific wastewater samples are also discussed.

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Nurudeen Abiola Oladoja is Professor of chemistry in the Department of Chemical Sciences, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Nigeria. He was Postdoctoral Fellow (CAS/TWAS) at the Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences (RCEES), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Visiting Research Scientist (USM/TWAS Visiting Research Fellowship), School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia; Visiting Professor (Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers) and Chair of Urban Water Systems Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Germany; and Visiting Professor,  Chinese Academy of Sciences Presidential Fellowship (CAS/PIFI), RCEES, Beijing, China. His research focus includes: environmental interfacial chemistry; aquatic ecological engineering; and resource recovery from wastewater. He has supervised and co-supervised several M.Sc. and Ph.D. students. He has published widely in reputable international peer review journals. He is Head, Hydrochemistry Research Group, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Nigeria, and Director of Applied Research (ACEWATER) Redeemer’s University, Nigeria.   Emmanuel Iyayi Unuabonah is Professor in the Department of Chemical Sciences in the College of Natural Sciences at Redeemers University in Nigeria. His research is focused on the preparation and characterization of functional composite materials from local materials and agrowastes with the aim of treating water. He is also developing novel micro-mesoporous materials for adsorptive and catalytic purposes. He has published several articles in international peer-reviewed journals and has won several international awards and research fellowships including the TWAS-ROSSA Young Scientist Award, SCOPE–Zhongyu Young Scientist Environmental Award (Environmental Technological Innovations category), African Union-TWAS Young Scientist Award in Basic Sciences, Technology and Innovation, the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and the Redeemer’s University Researcher of the Year. His research group won the Dhirubhai Ambani Chemical Engineering Innovation for Resource-Poor People Award category at the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) Global Awards and the TWAS Research group grant.

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