Nanotechnology Mitigating the Environmental Challenges

Abstract

A global challenge is the reliable availability of secure, clean and sufficient water supply. A secure, clean, and sufficient supply of water is a pillar of the sustainability and well-being of mankind. Clean, pathogen-free water improves human resources by reducing the burden of infections, improving access to schools and improving the quality of life. Our ecological resource is expanded by clean water without anthropogenic or geogenic contaminants, sustaining marine habitats and balanced habitats. Chemically and energy-intensive, water treatment and desalination approaches remain unsuccessful in eliminating essential trace pollutants, and poorly suited to application internationally in decentralised (distributed) water treatment networks.To overcome these technical deficiencies, many recent attempts have attempted to exploit the reactive and tunable properties of nanomaterials. This Study assesses the possible uses of nanomaterials to advance sustainable water treatment systems and suggests ways of evaluating the environmental threats and social acceptance of water treatment processes that are enabled by nanotechnology. It also defines potential areas of study required for the secure introduction of innovative nanomaterial technologies.