ABSTRACT
Environmental pollution is a concern worldwide as it may cause serious damage to living beings’ health, threatening the existence of live on Earth. Activities performed by humans such as industrial ones are important sources of pollution. Regarding water, the increasing world’s population needs to receive from water treatment plants, a product with considerable quality to survive in a healthy way. However, with the enormous array of organic and inorganic contaminants that can pollute groundwater and surface water is becoming even more difficult to regulatory agencies to set quality standards for each of them and to assure if a water sample is secure to be used. Strategies to deal with pollution in order to reduce the risk it represents to ecosystems are highly necessary. When it comes to water pollution, nanoscience offers interesting alternatives. This chapter will address nanomaterials in protocols aiming to remediate water pollution.
