ABSTRACT
Abstract ....................................................................................................225 10.1 Introduction ...................................................................................225 10.2 The Aim and Objective of This Study ..........................................226 10.3 Water Purification and the Vision for the Future ..........................227 10.4 The Present Status of Global Industrial Water
Pollution Control ...........................................................................228 10.5 Groundwater Heavy Metal and Arsenic Contamination
and the Immense Scientific Challenges ........................................232 10.6 Scientific Research Pursuit in the Field of Water Purification
and the Visionary Future ...............................................................236 10.7 Global Water Research and Development Initiatives ...................238 10.8 Conventional Environmental Engineering Techniques .................238 10.9 Technological Development of Membrane Bioreactors ...............240 10.10 Nonconventional Environmental Engineering Techniques ...........241
10.11 Membrane-Separation Phenomenon and the Scientific Vision .....244 10.12 Technological Vision of Advanced Oxidation Processes
