Impact of emerging pollutants in aquatic environment and treatments for control and removal in water bodies. Literature review
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This paper aims to review of the environmental impact generated by emerging pollutants (EPs) in the aquatic environment and how to treat them, when they are discharged into water bodies. The paper presents a global vision and a regional vision (Latin America) of the emerging pollutants (EPs) that are present in the water, whether domestic wastewater, industrial wastewater or drinking water and in that way identify which are the main emerging pollutants (EPs) and show the importance and impact they have on the environment and the repercussions of ignorance and lack of legislation when controlling discharges on water bodies. The removal efficiencies for emerging contaminants through common treatments (coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, etc.) is moderately acceptable with values between 30% and 60%, while through tertiary treatments (advanced oxidation, treatments with hydrogen peroxide, UV light, etc.) the removal efficiency achieves percentages between 80% and 95% indicating the high capacity to remove these pollutants.
Harvey Andres Milquez Sanabria, Universidad de América. Bogotá Colombia
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4515-7039
Juan Camilo Montagut, Universidad de América. Bogotá Colombia
https://orcid.org/0009-0007-7765-1353
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