Emerging Wastewater Treatment Technologies
Water sanitation remains to be one of the top environmental related issues the world is facing today. Water pollution such as the release of organic and inorganic contaminants to the environment is caused by domestic, agricultural, and industrial activities and is expected to increase as urbanization emerges and population grows across the globe. Current waste water treatment technologies are energy- and cost-intensive. Our progressing world will soon demand for clean and safe water that is more expensive to supply and that will consume much of our carbon-based energy reserves. Today, scientists and researchers are exploring new technologies which are both cost and energy efficient to address the growing water sanitation needs and to serve as sustainable alternatives to conventional energy sources. Two of the innovative technologies which are under study today, utilize microorganisms to treat the contaminated wastewater while producing energy sources and these are called 1) microb