“…Definitive methods to deal with lead-contaminated industrial sewage include ion-exchange, chemical precipitation, and reverse-osmosis processes, among others. [7][8][9][10][11][12][13] These techniques are being developed rapidly, but they can be expensive, energy consuming, and require complex pretreatment methods. 14 By contrast, membrane-based adsorption is a simple, economic, effective, and energy-saving method with recycling possibilities and produces no secondary pollution.…”