ABSTRACT
Increasing industrialization has positively influenced living conditions in the past few decades but at a cost. Industries and homes produce large amounts of wastewater every day. Unfortunately, improper treatment and subsequent disposal of this wastewater into water resources can greatly impair the environment and surface water conditions. Clean water is central to the survival of any community (Reynolds and Richards 1996) and wastewater can severely compromise water quality. Although the content of wastewater varies largely with source, its contaminants are categorically pathogens, bacteria, organic content, inorganic particles, pharmaceuticals, toxins, animals, and so on (Reynolds and Richards 1996; Lin and Lee 2001).
