Original Articles: 2011 Vol: 3 Issue: 2
Various methods involved in waste water treatment to control water pollution
Abstract
Due to industrialization and urbanization disposal of industrial as well as domestic effluents
become more and more complex. Hence various techniques were developed for purification of
water. Pollution of water streams causes due to by different inorganic, organic and biological
contaminates, among which pesticides are very common and introduced due to agriculture
source , represents a serious environmental problem. Several usual methods of water treatment
exist such as activated carbon adsorption, chemical oxidation, biological treatment, etc. and as
such have found certain practical applications. For example, activated carbon adsorption
involves phase transfer of pollutants without decomposition into another pollution problem.
Chemical oxidation mineralizes all organic substances and is only economically suitable for the
removal of pollutants at high concentrations.