Phytoremediation of Textile Industry Effluent using Aquatic Macrophytes

Introduction Pollution can be defined in several ways. Water pollution occurs when energy and other materials are released into water. It includes all of the waste materials that cannot be naturally broken down by water. In other words, anything that is added to the water, above and beyond its capacity to break it down, is pollution. In certain circumstances pollution can be caused by nature itself, such as when water flows through soils having high acidity and human actions are responsible for the pollutants that enter the water (Kenneth M. Vigil, 2003).