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Water is essential for life, a strategic resource for every country
and population. Its availability and sanitary safety is highly
connected with the health and economy status of population. Burden
of disease due to polluted water is a major public health problem
throughout the world. Many pollutants in water streams have been
identified as toxic and harmful to the environment and human
health, and among them arsenic, mercury and cadmium are considered
as high priority ones. Providing population with safe drinking
water became the priority and at the same time a big challenge for
the modern society. Many funding agencies in various countries have
assigned a high priority to the envir- mental security and
pollution prevention. UN, being one of them, launched the
"International Decade for Action: Water for life 2005-2015. "
Therefore, today's political and social climate presents an
important opportunity to implement principles of sustainable
development and to preserve resources essential for future life.
This process requires interdisciplinary approach; it is critically
important to stimulate interactions between medical doctors,
chemists, physicist, materials scientists, engineers and policy
makers, which are already experienced in their specific areas. It
is also our ethical obligation to preserve existing water resources
and existing eco systems enhancing their biodiversity. The NATO
Advanced Research Workshop "Water Treatment Te- nologies for the
Removal of High-Toxicity Pollutants" took place on September 13-17,
2008 in Ko ice, Slovak Republic."
Water is essential for life, a strategic resource for every country
and population. Its availability and sanitary safety is highly
connected with the health and economy status of population. Burden
of disease due to polluted water is a major public health problem
throughout the world. Many pollutants in water streams have been
identified as toxic and harmful to the environment and human
health, and among them arsenic, mercury and cadmium are considered
as high priority ones. Providing population with safe drinking
water became the priority and at the same time a big challenge for
the modern society. Many funding agencies in various countries have
assigned a high priority to the envir- mental security and
pollution prevention. UN, being one of them, launched the
"International Decade for Action: Water for life 2005-2015. "
Therefore, today's political and social climate presents an
important opportunity to implement principles of sustainable
development and to preserve resources essential for future life.
This process requires interdisciplinary approach; it is critically
important to stimulate interactions between medical doctors,
chemists, physicist, materials scientists, engineers and policy
makers, which are already experienced in their specific areas. It
is also our ethical obligation to preserve existing water resources
and existing eco systems enhancing their biodiversity. The NATO
Advanced Research Workshop "Water Treatment Te- nologies for the
Removal of High-Toxicity Pollutants" took place on September 13-17,
2008 in Ko ice, Slovak Republic."
Biocompatible Hybrid Oxide Nanoparticles for Human Health: From
Synthesis to Applications explores the synthesis, structure,
properties and applications of functionalized oxide nanoparticles.
The books shows the applications of materials depending on their
composition and structure, with a focus on silicon, titanium and
iron oxides, each of which was chosen because of their unique
features, including silica because it is chemically resistant to
most organic solvents, harmless to living organisms, can thicken
flowable formulations, and increase the strength of materials,
titania for its unique chemical, optical, electrophysical and
bactericidal properties, and iron-containing materials because they
possess important magnetic properties.
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