Health Hazards of Copper in Environment

Pages:71-73
Gulab Singh (Government Senior Secondary School, Gajuwala, Fathehabad, Haryana)

Copper discharges to the global biosphere are due primarily to human activities, especially mining, smelting, and refining copper and the treatment and recycling of municipal and industrial wastes. Some copper compounds, especially copper sulfate, also contribute to environmental copper burdens because they are widely and intensively used in confined geographic areas to control nuisance species of aquatic plants and invertebrates, diseases of terrestrial crop plants, and ectoparasites of fish and livestock. The present paper reviews on the harmful health hazards of Copper.