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and environmental impacts of ECs. It is also our duty to protect the environment

and living organisms from ECs. A watershed-scale approach has to be developed

for comprehensive solutions at source, transfer, and fate levels. Control at source

can be a cost-effective solution for reducing EC loads in water bodies.

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