Kumar, Manish
Saxena, Aseem
Tripathi, Sachin
Panday, Durga Prasad
Das, Nilotpal
Singh, Rajesh
Agarwal, Vivek
Dueñas-Moreno, Jaime
Mora, Abrahan
Mahlknecht, Jürgen
Funding for this research was provided by:
Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India (DST/TMD/EWO/WTI/2K19/EWFH/2019/81)
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Faculty of Excellence research support)
Article History
Received: 13 September 2025
Accepted: 12 February 2026
First Online: 26 March 2026
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing financial or non-financial interests. M.K. is an editorial board member of NPJ Clean Water. M.K. was not involved in the journal’s review of, or decisions related to, this manuscript.
: All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.