Abstract: Pesticides have become the most extensively used pernicious chemicals known to human kind with long term health and environmental impacts on our ecosystem and biodiversity. One of the biggest issues in their excessive usage is water contamination which has been increasing at an alarming rate globally. Because of their persistent and easily transportable nature, these chemicals can enter and remain in water bodies for long periods of time. It is quite challenging to detect most of these pesticides and they cannot be treated by the conventional treatment processes. Many factors like media, humic content, light intensity, temperature, nature of active ingredient etc......
Key Word: Pesticide; Treatment methods; Membrane methods; Adsorption; Advanced Oxidation Processes; Biological treatments.
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