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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYTOREMEDIATION
Volume 18, Issue 10, Pages 949-955Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/15226514.2016.1183567
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Aquatic macrophytes; fish mortality; wastewater toxicity; phytoremediation
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This paper elucidates the phytoremediation potential of water hyacinth and water lettuce on the reduction of wastewater toxicity. Acute toxicity tests were performed in an aquarium with a population of Sarotherodon melanotheron, contaminated by different concentrations of wastewaters before and after phytoremediation with Eichhornia crassipes and Pistia stratiotes. Lethal concentrations (LC50) of the fish's population obtained during 24hours of exposures were determined. COD, BOD, ammonium, TKN and PO43- concentrations in wastewaters were of 1850.29, 973.33, 38.34, 61.49 and 39.23mg L-1, respectively, for each plant. Phytoremediation reduced 58.87% of ammonium content, 50.04% of PO43-, 82.45% of COD and 84.91% of BOD. After 15days of the experiment, metal contents in treated wastewaters decreased from 6.65 to 97.56% for water hyacinth and 3.51 to 93.51% for water lettuce tanks. Toxicity tests showed that the mortality of fish exposed increased with increase in concentration of pollutants in wastewaters and the time of exposure. Therefore, the highest value of LC50 was recorded for fish subjected to 3hours of exposure (16.37%). The lowest rate was obtained after an exposure of 20 to 24hours (5.85%). After phytoremediation, the effluents purified by Eichhornia crassipes can maintain the fish life beyond 24hours of exposure.
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