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ReviewWater science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research2026

Sustainable triphasic macrophyte-substrate-microbial synergies in constructed wetlands for textile wastewater treatment.

George Mbena, Naveen Chand, Rajat Pant, Manoj Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar Prajapati, Sunil Kumar Singal

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Review in Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors.

George MbenaEnvironment and Biofuel Research Laboratory, Department of Hydro and Renewable Energy (HRED), Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand 247667, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8685-0267
Naveen ChandEnvironment and Biofuel Research Laboratory, Department of Hydro and Renewable Energy (HRED), Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand 247667, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3355-9359
Rajat PantEnvironment and Biofuel Research Laboratory, Department of Hydro and Renewable Energy (HRED), Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand 247667, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0179-642X
Manoj KumarDepartment of Hydrology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand 247667, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2708-3630
Sanjeev Kumar PrajapatiEnvironment and Biofuel Research Laboratory, Department of Hydro and Renewable Energy (HRED), Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand 247667, India E-mail: sanjukec@hre.iitr.ac.in; sanjukec@gmail.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8687-2333
Sunil Kumar SingalEnvironment and Biofuel Research Laboratory, Department of Hydro and Renewable Energy (HRED), Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand 247667, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0012-5009

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Textile industries' effluent is highly colored and pollutant rich, posing a significant challenge for the wastewater treatment industry. Untreated or partially treated dye wastewater is often highly toxic, teratogenic, mutagenic, and carcinogenic, posing a serious risk to public health and the ecosystem. Hence, here we synthesize the recent advancement for the textile wastewater treatment. The study evaluates constructed wetlands (CWs) as a sustainable and low-cost technology for treating textile wastewater. The review emphasizes the high toxicity potential of textile effluents due to recalcitrant dyes and associated contaminants, and reviews recent advancements in CW configurations, treatment efficiency, and key mechanisms associated. The review synthesis indicates that CWs have a significant scale-up opportunity if optimized and designed in a planned manner. The reduction of pollutants in CWs is mainly dependent on a combination of chemical, physical, and biological mechanisms to degrade or absorb complex dye molecules. Subsequently, substrate and plant selection become important for the better performance of the CWs for treating textile effluents.

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PlantsTextile IndustryWaste Disposal, FluidWetlandsColoring AgentsIndustrial WasteWastewaterWater Pollutants, ChemicalColoring AgentsIndustrial WasteWastewaterWater Pollutants, Chemicalconstructed wetlandsdyeheavy metalsnature-based solutiontextile wastewater

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PMID42460563

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