Pesticides constitute one of the most important group of environmental pollutants with
several of them listed as priority pollutants of natural water resources (European Union …

Agro-food processing industries use large amounts of fungicides to ensure availability of
fresh plant products during storage and transport. These include seed-producing industries …

Climate change, one of the planet's main current environmental problems, requires urgent
attention and is accelerating the need for developing low-cost technologies for wastewater …

Wastewaters from fruit-packaging plants contain high loads of toxic and persistent pesticides
and should be treated on site. We evaluated the depuration performance of five pilot …

The high wastewater volumes produced during citrus production at pre-and post-harvest
level presents serious pesticide point-source pollution for groundwater bodies. Biobeds are …

Agro-food industries that use pesticides constitute significant point sources for the
contamination of natural water resources. Despite that, little is known about the treatment of …

The increasing use of pesticides in agriculture has given rise to a situation in which
countries now have to cope with the problem of residues of these compounds in ground and …

Pesticides are chemical substances used to improve the quality of food products and plant
diseases. The occurrence of pesticides in wastewater is receiving attention from the …

The continuous and uncontrolled release of organic pollutants such as pesticides and
pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) originating from agricultural, industrial …

Groundwater and surface water is at risk of contamination from the use of some agricultural
pesticides. In many circumstances pesticide contamination of water resources is more likely …