Abstract

Ali Marefat* Author Affiliations Graduate Faculty of Environment, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Received: February 15, 2021 | Published: February 23, 2021 Corresponding author: Ali Marefat, Graduate Faculty of Environment, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2021.34.005508

Highlights

  • Chemical pesticides are commonly used to increase agricultural yields worldwide, but these pesticides can be a serious threat to aquatic ecosystems

  • These wetlands are classified into 3 types of artificial wetland systems with horizontal flow, vertical flow and composite depending on the type of sewage flow in it

  • Research findings reveal that artificial wetlands are able to significantly separate groups of chemical toxins related to Organchlorine, Strobilurin, strobin, organophosphate and pyrethroids from the effluent

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Chemical pesticides are commonly used to increase agricultural yields worldwide, but these pesticides can be a serious threat to aquatic ecosystems. Artificial wetlands are built by humans to treat municipal, industrial, agricultural and flood wastewater. It is possible to use plants such as reeds and halophytes. Due to their long residence time, the wastewater loses a significant amount of its pollutants by plants.

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