Phytoremediation of Grey Water
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Abstract
Environmental pollution is one of the biggest global problems of presence that should be given maximum attention. As one of the endangered resources, the shortage of water caused by contamination leads to serious problems that ultimately affect human health. Although the dominant share of clean water is consumed for agriculture, it is necessary to use alternative water sources for irrigation. One of these sources can be grey water that represents waste water from a household that does not contain faeces nor urine. However, like other wastewaters, grey water also contains elevated amounts of certain substances (for example soaps, detergents) that can act harmful to the environment, therefore purification is necessary. Because of high costs of the construction of a treatment plant, phytoremediation can be a favorable solution. In addition to economic cost-effectiveness, phytoremediation significantly improves the environment and the overall ecosystem in general. Given the small number of studies conducted on this subject in our country, further eximination is necessary to examine the efficiency of grey water phytoremediation in our climatic conditions.
Keywords: phytoremediation, grey water, wastewater, water treatment, water shortage, pollutants removal, environment, plants