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Humanity entered the new millennium with unprecedented challenges on a planetary scale.

The soaring global popularity of electronic and electrical devices, from computers to cell phones to heavy appliances, combines with ineffective waste management and disposal, is triggering a crisis of e-waste health risks to which millions of children as well as women of childbearing age, are exposed.

Wastewater causes serious environmental and human health problems, especially in coastal zones.These is no single solution to solve such problems, because of the large variation in economic, social, cultural and physical characteristics in an area.