The controversy related to the environment pollution is increasing in human life and in the eco-system. Especially, the water pollution is growing rapidly due to the wastewater discharge from the industries. The only way to find the new water resource is the reuse of treated wastewater. Several remediation technologies are available which provides a convenience to reuse the reclaimed wastewater. Heavy metals like Zn, Cu, Pb, Ni, Cd, Hg, etc. contributes various environmental problems based on their toxicity. These toxic metals are exposed to human and environment, the accumulation of ions takes place which causes serious health and environmental hazards. Hence, it is a major concern in the environment. Due to this concern, the significance of developing technology for removing heavy metals has been increased. This paper contributes the outline of new literature with two objectives. First, it provides the sketch about treatment technologies followed by their heavy metal capture capacity from industrial effluent. The treatment performance, their remediation capacity and probable environmental and health impacts were deliberated in this review article. Conclusively, this review paper furnishes the information about the important methods incorporated in lab scale studies which are required to identify the feasible and convenient wastewater treatment. Moreover, attempts have been made to confer the emphasis on sequestration of heavy metals from industrial effluent and establish the scientific background for reducing the discharge of heavy metals into the environment.

Efficient techniques for the removal of toxic heavy metals from aquatic environment: A review

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Surface functional groups of carbon-based adsorbents and their roles in the removal of heavy metals from aqueous solutions: A critical review.

Applications of chitin- and chitosan-derivatives for the detoxification of water and wastewater--a short review.

Removal of heavy metal ions using chitosan and modified chitosan: A review

Aquifer vulnerability is frequently estimated through methodologies that do not consider the main physical and chemical soil parameters. Soil characteristics were determined at a semiurban region with mixed activities at the surroundings of Buenos Aires city. A soil attenuation index (AI) was proposed to estimate groundwater chemical pollution risk, that takes into account organic carbon content, pH, cation exchange capacity, clay content, phreatic depth and landscape position. Escobar soils were Mollisols and Entisols with a high variation in soil properties. Phosphorus, Mn and Zn concentrations in groundwater samples taken from selected places were used to validate the proposed index. Clay content was a very important property for adsorption, as clay increased, the soil P retention capacity increased simultaneously. A relationship was found between CEC, Cox and extractable P and chemical water properties with AI.

Importancia de las propiedades de los suelos en la determinación del riesgo de contaminación de acuíferos Importance of soil properties in the risk of groundwater contamination

A. Fernández Cirelli

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Importancia de las propiedades de los suelos en la determinación del riesgo de contaminación de acuíferos Importance of soil properties in the risk of groundwater contamination