Water Pollution and Bioremediation
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Wastewater Treatment and Reuse".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 7349
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Water pollution is an issue of great concern worldwide. Human activity is primarily responsible for water pollution, although natural phenomena can also contribute to water pollution to some extent. Water pollution can be broadly divided into three main categories, such as (1) contamination by organic compounds (2) contamination by inorganic compounds (e.g., heavy metals), (3) contamination by microorganisms. The main causes of water pollution include mining activities, discharge of untreated sewage from industries, agricultural run-off, which contain imbalance pH, toxic heavy metals and oxides, pathogens, harmful blooms, oil spills, pesticides, dyes, etc., which contaminate both surface and groundwater. It has a very negative effect on public health as it causes a lot of diseases such as diarrhea, cholera, typhoid, dysentery or skin infections due to drinking or using contaminated water. An increase in the number of minerals in polluted water is responsible for eutrophication – a condition that has a bad impact on life in water. Water pollution badly harms the biodiversity of aquatic ecosystems. Wastewater treatment consists of removing pollutants from wastewater through a variety of approaches such as conventional, microbial, plant-based and nanomaterials. The microorganisms are used in bioremediation processes due to their natural capacity to biosorb/transform toxic heavy metal ions. In recent years, the use of bioremediation processes for the removal of toxic metals from aqueous solutions is gaining considerable attention.
Prof. Dr. Hrudayanath Thatoi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- polluted water
- industrial effluents
- heavy metals
- phytoremediation
- bioremediation
- microbial remediation
- nanotechnology-based bioremediation
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