About the Editors xv List of Contributors xvii Foreword xxi Preface xxiii 1 Emerging Contaminants and Water Conservation: Challenges, Strategies, and Solutions for Sustainable Water Management 1 Sachin Tripathi, Durga P. Panday, and Manish Kumar 2 Water Security in Asia 19 Kanika Dogra, Aseem Saxena, Kanchan D. Bahukhandi, and Manish Kumar 3 Water Security in Africa 39 Khem Chand, Ruchi Mehrotra, Urvashi Arya, Durgesh Bahuguna, and Rajesh Tiwari 4 Water Security in South America 53 Navjot Hothi and Saumyaranjan Sahoo 5 Water Security in Australia 71 Madhu Sharma and Apoorva 6 Water Security in North America and Europe 99 Ganesh Datt Bhatt and Deepali Rana 7 Indigenous Technology and Modern Practices in Asia 115 Aanchal Kumari, Kanchan D. Bahukhandi, and Manish Kumar 8 Indigenous and Modern Practices for Water Conservation and Management in Africa 133 Pushpa Sharma, Uttamasha B. Borah, and Saumya Patel 9 Water Security in South America 151 Sushila Arya, Ganesh Datt Bhatt, Minakshi Pandey, and Divya Chaudhary 10 Indigenous Technology and Modern Practices in Australia 169 Navjot Hothi and Saumyaranjan Sahoo 11 Indigenous Technology and Modern Practices in North America and Europe 183 Ruchi Mehrotra, Sonali Aggarwal, Rajesh Tiwari, and Kishor Joshi 12 Water-Related Traditional and Indigenous Practices: A Global Review and Case Study from Tank-Cascade Systems in Sri Lanka 195 S.S.K. Chandrasekara, M.

P. Perera, and M. Vithanage 13 Water-Related Traditional and Indigenous Practices 207 Nirlipta P. Nayak 14 Modern Water Treatment and Technological Solutions 225 Aseem Saxena, Durga P. Panday, and Manish Kumar 15 Current Challenges and Solutions to Achieving Sustainable Solutions to Water Security 235 Gagan Matta, Gaurav Pant, Nitin Kamboj, Sunil Kumar, Avinash Kumar, Pawan Kumar, Anjali Nayak, Aditi Bisht, Neeraj Pandey, Amrit Kumar, Vishal Bhardwaj, and Himanshu Saini 16 Enabling Solutions to Water Security 255 Ganesh Datt Bhatt and Deepali Rana Index 267.