Agricultural Runoff and Treatment Methods

Abstract

Increasing global population intensifies the food demand pressure while meeting the increasing environmental legislation. To cater for such demand, agriculture sector shifts for mass food production accompanied with the use of a large amount of agrochemicals such as fertilizers, pesticides, antibiotics, and growth hormones. As a result, these agrochemicals' residues pollute the ecosystem and environment through surface runoff. It has been a great challenge in treating agricultural runoff due to its contaminant loadings and wide variability of different compounds in the wastewater to meet the stringent standards in an economically feasible manner. This chapter delineates the current state-of-the-art of wastewater treatment methods for agricultural runoff.

Controllable synthesis and characterization of Mg2SiO4 nanostructures via a simple hydrothermal route using carboxylic acid as capping agent and their photocatalytic performance for photodegradation of azo dyes

“…Nowadays water pollution is one of the biggest problems for humankind. Different approaches have been used for water treatment, such as absorption, 1 flocculation, 2 membrane processes, 3 and photocatalytic degradation. 4 One of the significant industrial contaminants is organic and industrial dyes, which can be removed simply by photocatalytic degradation.…”