This article is retracted at the request of the Editors-in-Chief per the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines on plagiarism. The article shows considerable overlap with previously published articles without proper citation. Moreover, the manuscript was submitted without the knowledge and consent of the second author. The Editors of Applied Water Science take issues of research and publication misconduct seriously in order to preserve the integrity of the academic record. Our apologies are extended to the readers that this was not discovered before publication.

The online version of this article contains the full text of the retracted article as electronic supplementary material.