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Applications of Macrophytes as Environmentally Sound Technique for Cleaning of Contaminated Ecosystems

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Water is an important resource that supports life on the earth. Contamination with diverse categories of pollutants (toxic metals, agrochemicals, synthetic pesticides, and organic substances) has drastically altered the quality of aquatic ecosystems. Undoubtedly, there are numerous technologies and approaches to deal with menace of contamination in aquatic environs. Nowadays, application of aquatic plants (macrophytes) has been proven to be a safe and viable technology for degradation and cleaning of harmful and toxic substances from aquatic environs both naturally as well as experimentally. Macrophytes are important in reducing the pollution level of aquatic ecosystems. They have the capacity to improve the water quality by removing nutrients, heavy metals, toxic organics, suspended solids, and other pollutants from contaminated wastewaters, thus plays an important role in purification of wastewater. Furthermore, macrophyte component of aquatic environment helps indirectly in metal retention by slowing the water current to sediment and suspend heavy metals. These aquatic plants could be applied as an effective, efficient, and choice to clean the wastewaters contaminated with metals, nutrients, and pesticides.

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Bashir, I., Bhat, R.A., Mir, S.A. (2020). Applications of Macrophytes as Environmentally Sound Technique for Cleaning of Contaminated Ecosystems. In: Bhat, R., Hakeem, K., Saud Al-Saud, N. (eds) Bioremediation and Biotechnology, Vol 3. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46075-4_12

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