Wastewater solutions to remove emerging contaminants.

What is it about?

A decision support tool has been used to create wastewater treatment solutions suited to India. These solutions are able to treat wastewater to the required standards and also demonstrate their ability to remove contaminants of emerging concern, for example, pharmaceuticals. This paper displays the results of some scenario examples to demonstrate the feasibility of the decision support tool.

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Why is it important?

Our work provides a new methodology to calculate the removal of 17 contaminants of emerging concern through over 40 wastewater unit processes. Our findings show that natural processes, such as wetlands, are best suited to India for the removal of these contaminants.