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Green Practices to Save Our Precious “Water Resource” Read chapter Read first chapter

2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

12. Nature Is the Answer: Water and Wastewater Treatment by New Natural-Based Agents

Authors : Jesús Sánchez-Martín, Jesús Beltrán-Heredia

Published in: Advances in Water Treatment and Pollution Prevention

Publisher: Springer Netherlands

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Abstract

Environmental concerns regarding water quality are relevant nowadays because of their impact in human life. Persistent contaminants, such as heavy metals, dyes, or surfactants, have become a permanent menace to the fragile environmental equilibrium. Although their presence is due to the increasing level of industrial and economical development in large areas, it is even more mandatory to implement new and efficient systems for removing them from effluents.
In this new scenario of pollutant disposal, the traditional methods for eliminating contaminants (such as coagulation or adsorption) should be improved in order to overcome many drawbacks that make them weak: lack of sustainability, external dependence, technological complexity, and many others. These reasons do not allow the universalization of water and wastewater treatment, above all in developing countries.
This chapter will explore new methods for water treatment. Coagulant agents such as aqueous extract of Moringa oleifera, modified starches or tannin-derived coagulants have demonstrated their ability in removing dyes, heavy metals, surfactants, phytoplankton, and turbidity from aqueous effluents. Adsorbents such as tannin rigid foam from natural species like Schinopsis balansae or Acacia mearnsii de Wild are also very effective in removing cationic compounds from water. If the question is how to become clean, nature is the answer.

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Title
Nature Is the Answer: Water and Wastewater Treatment by New Natural-Based Agents
Authors
Jesús Sánchez-Martín
Jesús Beltrán-Heredia
Copyright Year
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Book
Advances in Water Treatment and Pollution Prevention

Print ISBN: 978-94-007-4203-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-94-007-4204-8

Copyright Year: 2012

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4204-8_12