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ClearWater 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.
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.
Water Pollution: A Menace to Mankind
This review discusses sources of water contamination — including faecal, domestic, and industrial wastes — and their threats to human and aquatic health, with a focus on microplastic pollution as an emerging concern. The authors call for improved water management policies to safeguard human health.
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.
Contaminated Waters: Unveiling the Environmental and Health Impacts of Global Water Pollution
This review examines how pollutants including heavy metals, microplastics, and untreated sewage contaminate water worldwide, harming both marine life and human health. Researchers found that toxic substances accumulate through the food chain, meaning contaminated seafood can expose people to a wide range of harmful chemicals. The study emphasizes the need for better wastewater treatment, stronger policies, and public awareness to protect water quality.
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.
The Occurrence of Micropollutants in the Aquatic Environment and Technologies for Their Removal
This review summarizes the growing problem of micropollutants in water, including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and industrial chemicals, and evaluates advanced treatment methods to remove them. The research is important for human health because conventional water treatment plants cannot effectively filter out these contaminants, meaning people may be regularly exposed through tap water.
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.
Recent developments in water purification
This review surveys the latest advanced water purification technologies developed in response to growing global water contamination challenges, including pollution from microplastics, dyes, heavy metals, pesticides, and pharmaceuticals. It covers approaches such as hybrid oxidation systems, novel membrane technologies, plasma-based treatment, and AI-driven smart purification systems. While not a primary research study on microplastics specifically, the review situates microplastic removal within the broader landscape of water treatment innovation.
Which\nMicropollutants in Water Environments Deserve\nMore Attention Globally?
This review analyzed which organic micropollutants in water environments deserve the most global attention based on their toxicity, occurrence frequency, and persistence. Microplastics are among the contaminants considered, alongside pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and industrial chemicals that routinely escape conventional water treatment and accumulate in aquatic ecosystems.
Which\nMicropollutants in Water Environments Deserve\nMore Attention Globally?
This review analyzed which organic micropollutants in water environments deserve the most global attention based on their toxicity, occurrence frequency, and persistence. Microplastics are among the contaminants considered, alongside pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and industrial chemicals that routinely escape conventional water treatment and accumulate in aquatic ecosystems.
Water Quality, Water Security and Risk Assessment
This review covers water quality and security risks posed by a range of contaminants including heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, microplastics, and pesticides, and evaluates current assessment and remediation approaches.
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.
Research on the Current Status of Global Water Pollution and Corresponding Countermeasures
This paper reviews the current state of global water pollution, identifying industrial waste, agricultural runoff, and untreated wastewater as key causes, alongside emerging pollutants like microplastics and pharmaceuticals. Case studies from Pakistan and China illustrate the range from severe contamination to successful regulatory intervention. The authors emphasize that addressing water pollution requires advanced treatment technologies, stronger regulations, and international cooperation.
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.
Integrated Approaches to Water Quality Assessment and Treatment: A Comprehensive Review
This comprehensive review integrates physical, chemical, and biological water quality parameters, examines major pollution sources including emerging contaminants like microplastics, and surveys advances in real-time IoT-enabled monitoring and integrated treatment approaches.
Impact of Water Pollution & Perspective Techniques to Mitigate It
This review covers the major sources of water pollution, including agricultural runoff, industrial waste, and microplastic contamination, and their effects on aquatic life and human health. Researchers evaluated modern treatment technologies like membrane bioreactors and advanced filtration that offer improvements over conventional methods. The study highlights the need for more efficient, eco-friendly, and cost-effective water treatment approaches.
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.
Human Health Risks due to Exposure to Water Pollution: A Review
This review looks at how water contamination from various sources -- including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, heavy metals, and industrial chemicals -- threatens public health worldwide. The health effects depend on the type of pollutant and length of exposure, and the paper highlights that microplastics are an emerging concern because they can carry other toxic substances into drinking water.
Microplastics in Water: Occurrence, Human Health Impact and Methods of Analysis
This review covers the occurrence of microplastics in water sources globally, summarizing human health impacts from ingestion and inhalation, and evaluating available treatment technologies for removing microplastics from drinking water. The authors conclude that conventional water treatment is insufficient for complete microplastic removal.
Environmental Policy and Governance of Emerging Contaminants in Drinking Water: A Comparative Analysis of Global Regulations and Remediation Strategies
This review compares how different countries and international bodies regulate emerging contaminants in drinking water, including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Researchers found significant gaps and inconsistencies between regulatory frameworks, with many countries lacking specific standards for these newer pollutants. The study calls for more harmonized global policies and investments in advanced water treatment technologies to address these growing threats to drinking water safety.
A One Health perspective on water contaminants
This review applied the One Health framework to water contaminants including microplastics, pathogens, and agrochemicals, emphasizing the interconnected impacts of water pollution on human, animal, and environmental health.
Microplastics hack the water supply system: What it means for water safety and human health?
This review traced microplastics through the entire water supply chain, from source water to the tap, and found that daily human intake through drinking water is rapidly increasing. The study suggests that water treatment infrastructure, including disinfection chemicals and aging pipes, can actually transform microplastics in ways that increase their health risks.
Water Pollution: The Problems and Solutions
This review provides a broad overview of water pollution sources and solutions, covering industrial discharge, agricultural runoff, and urban wastewater as major contributors to water contamination. The article examines both traditional and innovative approaches to cleaning up polluted water, including emerging contaminants like microplastics. Understanding the full scope of water pollution is important because microplastics often interact with other pollutants, making their combined health effects potentially worse.