Industrial, agricultural, and domestic wastewater must be treated
to eliminate pathogenic microorganisms and prevent their
transmission through the environment. However, conventional
wastewater treatment processes do not guarantee disinfection
and elimination of these organisms (Howard et al., 2004).
Moreover, discharging inefficiently treated wastewater to the
environment results in environmental and health problems
such as eutrophication, oxygen consumption, and toxicity (Ding
et al., 2011). Accordingly, there is a continuous demand for
alternative highly efficient methods of treatment to enable
complete elimination of bacteria from wastewater.
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