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Nanotechnology and Waste Water Treatment

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Water is one of the most precious and limited resource on the planet earth, that is continuously recycled through the water cycle. Several types of pollutants including organic, inorganic materials, microorganisms, industrial waste and many other toxic substances are the major causes of water pollution. Being an essential and valued compound for life, water plays an important role in world’s economy. About 70% of the fresh water is used in agricultural practices, just because of overexploitation and water pollution, the world is facing serious problems of fresh water shortage. To overcome this water shortage, across the world several methods have been devised to treat the contaminated water before its discharge into the ecosystem. Amongst all the recent techniques nanotechnology sounds to be a promising and most advanced technology that is used for the purification of waste water. Nanomaterials have immense applications in different fields of science and these are considered as one of the significant materials in the remediation of waste water and contaminated sites. Nanomaterials are considered most significant and appropriate for water treatment and purification as they are highly reactive, have great surface area to volume ratio and have a good affinity for target substances and their extremely small size makes them most appropriate purification agents. Nanofibers and nanomembranes are the most advanced forms of nanomaterials that are highly effective in removing the contaminants from the waste water. Despite all these benefits, there is a great need to further investigate the impact of nanomaterials on human health and the environment.

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Butt, B.Z. (2020). Nanotechnology and Waste Water Treatment. In: Javad, S. (eds) Nanoagronomy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41275-3_9

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