Definitions
Water treatment – Treating wastewater to make it suitable for reuse, using chemical, physical, or biological methods
Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) – Processes that involve generation of oxidizing species to chemically destroy pollutants
Micropollutants – Water pollutants with concentrations of several ng/L to μg/L, usually pharmaceuticals, personal care products, pesticides, and herbicides
Microplastics – Pieces of plastics with length less than 5 mm, these are emerging water pollutants in urban settings
Introduction
The demand for safe potable water is growing exponentially due to the rapid growth of the global population. The United Nations sustainable development goal (SDG) 6 has set the target to provide clean water access to everyone by 2030 (UN 2018). However, supplying clean water to the population that is currently deprived of access to safe potable water remains a global challenge....
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Mulay, M.R., Martsinovich, N. (2022). Water Pollution and Advanced Water Treatment Technologies. In: Brears, R.C. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87745-3_189
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