The abundance of organic pollutants found in wastewater affect urban surface waters. Traditional wastewater management technologies focus on the removal of suspended solids, nutrients and bacteria, however, new pollutants such as synthetic or naturally occurring chemicals are often not monitored in the environment despite having the potential to enter the environment and cause adverse ecological and human health effects. Collectively referred to as "emerging contaminants," they are mostly derived from domestic activities and occur in trace concentrations ranging from pico to micrograms per liter. Environmental contaminants are resistant to conventional wastewater treatment processes and most of them remain unaffected, causing contamination of receiving water. This in turn leads to the need for advanced wastewater treatment processes capable of removing environmental contaminants to ensure safe fresh water sources.
This book provides an up-to-date overview of the current bioremediation strategies, including their limitations, challenges and their potential application to remove environmental pollutants. It also introduces the latest trends and advances in environmental bioremediation, and presents the state-of-the-art in biological and chemical wastewater treatment processes. As such, it will appeal to researchers and policy-makers, as well as undergraduate and graduate environmental sciences students.

Maulin P. Shah is currently the Chief Scientist & Head of the Industrial Waste Water Research Lab, Division of Applied and Environmental Microbiology Lab at Enviro Technology Ltd., India. His work involves areas ranging from applied microbiology, environmental biotechnology, bioremediation, and industrial liquid waste management to solid state fermentation, as well as assessment of the impact of industrial pollution on microbial diversity of wastewater. He has edited 25 books in the area of wastewater microbiology

Chapter 1. ASPECTS OF MICROBIAL BIOFILMS IN WATER TREATMENT.- Chapter 2. New Bioremediation Technologies to Remove Heavy Metals and Radionuclides.- Chapter 3. Removal of heavy metals using bentonite clay and inorganic coagulants.- Chapter 4. Advanced Oxidation Processes for Wastewater Remediation: An Overview.- Chapter 5. Rhizoremediation of heavy metals and xenobiotics contaminated soil: An Eco-friendly approach.- Chapter 6. Bio treatment of High-salinity Wastewater: Current Methods and Future Directions.- Chapter 7. Facing Lethal Impacts of Industrialization via Green and Sustainable Microbial Removal of Hazardous Pollutants.- Chapter 8. Waste water treatment techniques - An Introduction.- Chapter 9. New trends in removing heavy metals from industrial wastewater through microbes.- Chapter 10. Biological Wastewater Treatment Technology; Advancement and Drawback.- Chapter 11. Role of Extremophiles and Extremophilic Proteins in Industrial Waste Treatment.- Chapter 12. Bio sorptionof carcinogenic heavy metals by bacteria: Role and Mechanism.- Chapter 13. The interest in Nanotechnology: A step towards bioremediation.- Chapter 14. Sustainable phyco-remediation of xenobiotics polluted water.- Chapter 15. Fundamentals of Biosensor application in environmental pollutant monitoring.- Chapter 16. Sustainable recovery of resources from industrial waste water: trends in biotechnology and allied industries.- Chapter 17. Accumulation and Detoxification of Metals by Plants and Microbes.- Chapter 18. Enzymatic degradation of industrial wastewater pollutants.- Chapter 19. Exploring the use of bio mixtures for the removal of structurally different pesticides.- Chapter 20. Bioremediation of perfluorochemical: A emerging contaminants present in municipal wastewater.- Chapter 21. Macrophyte importance in contaminant treatment and biomonitoring.- Chapter 22. Decontamination of Aqueous Heavy Metal Ions by Valence Regulation Strategy.- Chapter 23. Mechanistic insight to bioremediation of hazardous metals and pesticides from water bodies by microbes.- Chapter 24. Reuse of Water: An integral approach for the survival.- Chapter 25. Toxicity of hexavalent chromium and its microbial detoxification through bioremediation.