August 2018

Heavy metal remediation from municipal waste water using arrowroots (Amaranta arundinacea)

Municipal wastewater contains high levels of pollutants since it is a collection of wastes from various sources of human activities. Municipal treatment of such wastewater is usually aimed at lowering the levels of pollutants to permissible amounts before discharge into recipient environment. Several conventional methods are available for treatment of wastewater. However, most of them are costly and not economically...

Author(s): Joan Mwiluka Tenge, John Kituyi Lusweti and Gideon Ng&#; wena Magak