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The efficiency of Eichhornia crassipes in the removal of organic and inorganic pollutants from wastewater: a review

Environmental Science and Pollution Research volume 24, pages 7921–7937 (2017)Cite this article

Abstract

Water is a basic necessity of life, but due to overextraction and heavy input of nutrients from domestic and industrial sources, the contamination level of water bodies increase. In the last few decades, a potential interest has been aroused to treat wastewater by biological methodologies before discharge into the natural water bodies. Phytoremediation using water hyacinth is found to be an effective biological wastewater treatment method. Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), a notorious weed, being the most promising plant for removal of contaminants from wastewater is studied extensively in this regard. It has been successfully used to accumulate heavy metals, dyes, radionuclides, and other organic and inorganic contaminants from water at laboratory, pilot, and large scale. The plant materials are also being used as sorbent to separate the contaminant from water. Other than phytoremediation, the plant has been explored for various other purposes like ethanol production and generation of biogases and green manures. Such applications of this have been good support for the technocrats in controlling the growth of the plant. The present paper reviews the phytoremedial application of water hyacinth and its capability to remove contaminants in produced water and wastewater from domestic and isndustrial sources either used as a whole live plant grown in water or use of plant body parts as sorbent has been discussed.

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Mishra, S., Maiti, A. The efficiency of Eichhornia crassipes in the removal of organic and inorganic pollutants from wastewater: a review. Environ Sci Pollut Res 24, 7921–7937 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-016-8357-7

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