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ClearInsights into Global Water Reuse Opportunities
This review examines global opportunities and challenges for reusing treated wastewater, which is becoming increasingly important as water scarcity worsens worldwide. A key concern discussed is that recycled water may contain emerging contaminants including microplastics that current treatment methods do not fully remove. The findings highlight the need for advanced treatment technologies to ensure that water reuse does not become a pathway for microplastic exposure in communities.
Revolutionizing Wastewater Reuse: A Critical Review of Innovative Treatment Technologies for a Sustainable Energy-Water Nexus
This review critically examines innovative wastewater treatment technologies for sustainable reuse, covering advances in membrane filtration, electrochemical processes, advanced oxidation, and emerging contaminant removal including microplastics, in the context of addressing global water scarcity.
The Treatment of Wastewater, Recycling and Reuse - Past, Present, and in the Future
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of wastewater treatment evolution, from early disposal practices to modern recycling and reuse technologies. Researchers discuss how advanced treatment methods address emerging contaminants including microplastics and pharmaceutical residues. The study emphasizes the importance of water reuse strategies for mitigating global water scarcity and reducing environmental pollution.
Emerging Contaminants in Water: Detection, Treatment, and Regulation
This review covers emerging contaminants in water — including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and industrial chemicals — discussing detection methods, treatment technologies, and regulatory frameworks. The authors highlight major gaps in current water quality standards and the need for updated regulations to address these newer pollutants.
A Review of Global Occurrence of Emerging Pollutants in Wastewater: Present Status, Source/Pathway, Extraction and Detection Techniques
This review surveyed global occurrence data for emerging pollutants — including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and PFAS — in wastewater from 1998 to 2021, examining detection methods and contamination levels. The review highlights that many of these compounds are inadequately regulated and poorly removed by conventional wastewater treatment, allowing them to persist in water systems.
Understanding emerging contaminants in water and wastewater: A comprehensive review on detection, impacts, and solutions
This review covers emerging contaminants in water including pharmaceuticals, PFAS, microplastics, and nanomaterials that escape conventional water treatment and persist in the environment. It evaluates advanced detection techniques and newer treatment methods such as membrane filtration, advanced oxidation, and bioremediation to address these pollutants that pose ongoing risks to public health.
Unlocking the Potential of Reclaimed Water: Analysis of the Challenges and Market Size as a Strategic Solution for Water Scarcity in Europe
This study examines the market potential and challenges for reclaimed water as a solution to water scarcity in Europe, assessing regulatory frameworks, treatment technology gaps, and reuse applications. It identifies microplastics and pharmaceuticals as key contaminants of concern in reclaimed water and discusses standardisation needs.
Introduction—Emerging Pollutants in Water: Threats, Challenges, and Research Needs
This review examines contaminants of emerging concern in water, including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and endocrine-disrupting compounds, that are not adequately addressed by current water treatment and regulation. These pollutants enter water through wastewater, industrial discharge, and agricultural runoff and persist in the environment. The authors call for better monitoring and innovative treatment strategies to protect human health and water resources.
Emerging pollutants in waste water: Challenges and advancements in treatment technology
This review examines the challenges of removing emerging pollutants like microplastics, PFAS, and pharmaceutical residues from wastewater using conventional treatment methods. Researchers found that traditional approaches such as activated sludge and coagulation are often insufficient, while advanced oxidation processes, adsorption-based methods, and novel biological treatments show more promise. The study emphasizes the need for sustainable, energy-efficient solutions and stronger regulatory frameworks to protect water resources.
Water Quality Challenges and Technological Innovations for Sustainable Management
This review examines technological innovations for sustainable water quality management in the context of increasing contamination from chemical pollutants, pathogens, and emerging contaminants including microplastics. Researchers summarized advances in water quality assessment methods and treatment technologies that address these modern challenges. The study highlights how rapid urbanization and climate change are intensifying the need for more sophisticated water management approaches.
Paradigm shifts and current challenges in wastewater management.
This bibliometric review of global wastewater research identifies microplastics as an emerging contaminant of increasing concern in wastewater systems worldwide. The review highlights that microplastic removal from wastewater remains a major unsolved challenge and that treatment plants are currently significant pathways for microplastics entering the environment.
Sustainable wastewater reuse for agriculture
Researchers reviewed the potential of treating and reusing wastewater for agricultural irrigation, noting that while less than 20% of the world's wastewater is currently treated, advanced systems could provide a stable, energy-generating water supply for farming. The main hurdle is that current treatment technologies cannot fully remove all emerging chemical contaminants, including microplastics, which may affect crops and human health.
Impacto de los contaminantes emergentes en el entorno acuático y los tratamientos para el control y remoción en los cuerpos hídricos. Revisión literaria.
This review examines the environmental impact of emerging contaminants in aquatic systems, providing both global and Latin American regional perspectives on contaminant types found in domestic wastewater, industrial effluent, and drinking water. The authors survey removal efficiencies of conventional and advanced treatment technologies, identifying gaps in legislation and regulation that limit effective control of emerging contaminant discharges into water bodies.
Water Purification and Wastewater Treatment Challenges
This overview covers the major challenges in water purification and wastewater treatment, including inadequate removal of pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and microplastics by conventional systems. It discusses advanced treatment technologies and energy efficiency as priority areas for improving global water security.
Science and Technology for Water Purification: Achievements and Strategies
This review covers the latest science and technology for purifying water, addressing the global challenges of water scarcity and pollution. It discusses emerging contaminants including microplastics and the treatment methods needed to remove them. The findings are relevant to human health because current water treatment systems may not fully remove microplastics and other new pollutants from drinking water.
Transforming Pollution into Purity: Ensuring Water Quality for Human Health and Environmental Sustainability
This review examines global threats to water quality from contaminants including microplastics, heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, and agrochemicals, and their consequences for human health and ecosystems. The authors advocate for a comprehensive strategy combining source protection, advanced treatment technologies like constructed wetlands and advanced oxidation, and robust governance to ensure safe water access.
Emerging pollutants in the environment: A challenge for water resource management
This review surveys emerging pollutants in aquatic environments, including pharmaceuticals, microplastics, nanoparticles, and industrial chemicals that are not commonly monitored in water treatment. Researchers found that over 700 such substances have been identified across 22 countries, many of which persist through conventional water treatment processes. The study emphasizes the urgent need for updated monitoring frameworks and advanced treatment technologies to address these widespread but largely unregulated contaminants.
Health effects associated with wastewater treatment, reuse, and disposal
This annual review summarizes 2018 research on health effects associated with wastewater treatment, water reuse, and sewage disposal, covering microbial risks, chemical contaminants, and emerging pollutants including microplastics. The review highlights ongoing concerns about how wastewater management practices influence both environmental quality and public health.
Emerging Contaminants in waste Water: Detection, and Treatment Innovations
This review covers emerging contaminants in wastewater—including pharmaceuticals, endocrine disruptors, microplastics, and antibiotic resistance genes—examining their sources, detection methods using advanced analytical tools, and cutting-edge treatment innovations.
A comprehensive review of emerging contaminants in water sources
This comprehensive review examines the origins and environmental significance of emerging contaminants in water sources, including pharmaceuticals, microplastics, endocrine disruptors, and PFAS chemicals. Researchers found that these persistent pollutants exhibit complex behaviors in aquatic systems and pose threats to both ecosystem and human health. The study highlights the need for advanced monitoring and treatment technologies to address the growing challenge of emerging contaminant pollution in water supplies.
The Future of Municipal Wastewater Reuse Concentrate Management: Drivers, Challenges, and Opportunities
This review examines the growing challenge of managing concentrated waste streams produced when municipal wastewater is treated for reuse using reverse osmosis. These concentrates contain elevated levels of dissolved solids, metals, nutrients, and micropollutants that have passed through conventional treatment. The study discusses disposal options, monitoring needs, and emerging opportunities for recovering valuable resources from these waste streams.
Possibilities and Challenges of Wastewater Reuse—Planning Aspects and Realized Examples
This perspective reviews global water reuse practices and challenges, examining how population growth and climate change are increasing water scarcity and driving interest in reclaimed water as a potable and non-potable resource. The authors highlight regulatory gaps and implementation barriers while pointing to leading examples in the US and Singapore.
A Current Review of Water Pollutants in American Continent: Trends and Perspectives in Detection, Health Risks, and Treatment Technologies
This review surveys water pollution across the American continent, covering heavy metals, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and emerging contaminants including microplastics. The authors found a wide diversity of pollutants affecting water bodies throughout the region, with treatment solutions needing to be tailored to local conditions. The review emphasizes that water treatment facilities must be designed to address the specific mix of contaminants present, including the growing challenge of microplastic pollution.
Microplastics pollution from wastewater treatment plants: A critical review on challenges, detection, sustainable removal techniques and circular economy
This review critically examines the challenges of detecting and removing microplastics from wastewater treatment plants, evaluating sustainable removal technologies and circular economy approaches to address this persistent source of aquatic microplastic pollution.