Emerging organic pollutants in aqueousenvironments: Detection, monitoring, andremoval techniques

Currently, human beings face different problematics associated with environmental pollution, including the continuous degradation of the quality of water and, in this sense, its availability to be used for many purposes. Various factors are responsive for water pollution; however, anthropogenic activity (industries, agriculture, domestic processes, etc.) has the highest contribution. Specifically, anthropogenic activity has caused a vast pollution of almost all the water environments around the world by different types of chemical substances and materials, also called "emerging pollutants/contaminants". Among these, those with an organic nature result to be of great interest due to their relatively high concentrations in waters, their structural and behavioral diversity, as well as, their potential risks to biota. To deal with this, different analytical techniques and removal methodologies to detect/monitor and eliminate emerging organic pollutants from water, respectively, have been well-studied and developed through time. Thus, due to the large quantity of works and advances carried out in this topic, it is important to take a look and review the different aspects involved in such techniques Emerging organic pollutants in aqueous environments: