Supplying clean water to people around the world is one of the great challenges of today and tomorrow. Various micropollutants (organic and inorganic substances) are present in low concentrations in ...

“We are so short of good solutions for treating water contaminated with these micropollutants,” Mushtaq explains. “We wanted to develop something that was sustainable, environmentally safe a ...

Micropollutants such as steroid hormones contaminate drinking water worldwide. Until now, easily scalable water treatment technologies that remove them efficiently and sustainably have been lacking.

Oxyle’s team, Image Credits: Oxyle Oxyle’s wastewater treatment removes micropollutants including PFAS (chemicals found in products like cleaning solutions, water-resistant fabrics and ...

They took water samples at five locations along the Oder, extracted poisoned fish and analyzed and evaluated the samples. "The aim of the study was to find out which micropollutants are in the ...

Recent research has found that residual waste from cultivating white button mushrooms can be used to help remove micropollutants from water. There have been other examples where fungi has shown ...

Researchers at the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering have created a new method of cleaning micropollutants from water, using zwitterionic molecules — i.e., molecules with the same number of ...

The scientists took water samples at five locations along the River Oder, extracted poisoned fish and analysed the effects of the micropollutants. Summer 2022’s environmental disaster led to the ...

They found that depending on the substance, as much as 90% of these organic micropollutants had been removed from the water across a seven-day period. In the U.K., in particular, concerns around ...