Advances in Water Treatment and Pollution Prevention explores the most up-to-date studies in the field of water pollution. More specifically, this book examines the causes and effects of this threatening phenomenon and identifies the preventive measures that can be taken to contain, and even to defeat, water pollution worldwide.The papers gathered in this volume pinpoint the need to implement greener water treatments to prevent water pollution from impacting ecosystems, human well-being and economies any further. They also successfully outline the processes that have been studied, optimized and developed so far to sustain our environment.Advances in Water Treatment and Pollution Prevention will represent a valuable resource to academic researchers, students, institutions, environmentalists, and anyone interested in environmental policies aimed at safeguarding both the quality and the quantity of water.

Green Practices to save our precious 'water resource'.- Water pathways through the ages: from early aqueducts to next generation of  waste water treatment plants.- The removal of illicit drugs and metabolites during wastewater and drinking water treatment.- Removal of Dyes and Pigments from Industrial Effluents.- Heavy metal removal through biosorptive pathways.- Mesoporous-Assembled Nanocrystal Photocatalysts for Degradation of Azo Dyes.-  Microwave-Assisted Organic Pollutants Degradation.- Direct Flocculation Process for Wastewater Treatment.- Combined macromolecular adsorption and coagulation for improvement of membrane separation in water treatment.- Hybrid sonochemical treatment of contaminated wastewater: Sonophotochemical and sonoelectrochemical approaches. Part I: Description of the techniques.- Hybrid sonochemical treatments of wastewater: Sonophotochemical and Sonoelectrochemical approaches. Part II: Sonophotocatalytic and Sonoelectrochemical degradation of organic pollutants.- Nature is the answer: Water and wastewater treatment by new natural-based agents.- Polysaccharide-based macromolecular materials for decolorisation of textile effluents.- Wastewater treatment with concomitant bioenergy production using microbial fuel cells.