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Water is essential for varied human activities, its quality and quantity are attracting increasing attention around the world because of tremendous population expansion, rising socio-economic growth trends. Industrial, municipal, domestic, and agricultural wastewater is discharged directly into surface water that has the potential to harm the natural aquatic environment and biotic life, posing serious health risks to humans. Recycling and reusing wastewater are a long-term solution to the rapid increase in water pollution and scarcity. As a result, bioremediation plays a key role in recycling hazardous wastes into a form that other organisms can use. There have been several chemical and physical approaches to wastewater treatment, but biological treatment processes are more effective in reducing the majority of harmful pollutants found in wastewater which is low cost and environmentally friendly of all the physicochemical treatment processes. In this process, native microorganisms such as bacteria, fungus, and algae remove heavy metals, pesticides, suspended solids, dissolved solids, nitrate, phosphate, heavy metals chemical oxygen demand (COD), and biological oxygen demand (BOD) from wastewater. This chapter emphasizes on the relevance of fungi, algae, and bacteria in wastewater pollutants bio-remediation.

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    Nupur Raghav & Rajesh Nigam

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    Shivangi Mathur, Deeksha Singh & Rajiv Ranjan

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Raghav, N., Nigam, R., Mathur, S., Singh, D., Ranjan, R. (2022). Microbial Degradation of Wastewater. In: Madhav, S., Singh, P., Mishra, V., Ahmed, S., Mishra, P.K. (eds) Recent Trends in Wastewater Treatment . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99858-5_7

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