Advances in Water Treatment and Pollution Prevention

Chapter 1 Green Practices to Save Our Precious “Water Resource”

Chapter 2 Water Pathways Through the Ages: From Early Aqueducts to Next Generation of Wastewater Treatment Plants

Chapter 3 The Removal of Illicit Drugs and Metabolites During Wastewater and Drinking Water Treatment

Chapter 4 Removal of Dyes and Pigments from Industrial Effluents

Chapter 5 Heavy Metal Removal Through Biosorptive Pathways

Chapter 6 Mesoporous-Assembled Nanocrystal Photocatalysts for Degradation of Azo Dyes

Chapter 7 Microwave-Assisted Organic Pollutants Degradation

Chapter 8 Direct Flocculation Process for Wastewater Treatment

Chapter 9 Combined Macromolecular Adsorption and Coagulation for Improvement of Membrane Separation in Water Treatment

Chapter 10 Hybrid Sonochemical Treatment of Contaminated Wastewater: Sonophotochemical and Sonoelectrochemical Approaches. Part I: Description of the Techniques

Chapter 11 Hybrid Sonochemical Treatments of Wastewater: Sonophotochemical and Sonoelectrochemical Approaches. Part II: Sonophotocatalytic and Sonoelectrochemical Degradation of Organic Pollutants

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

Chapter 13 Polysaccharide-Based Macromolecular Materials for Decolorization of Textile Effluents

Chapter 14 Wastewater Treatment with Concomitant Bioenergy Production Using Microbial Fuel Cells