Water is an extremely essential compound for human life and, hence, accessing drinking water is very important all over the world. Nowadays, due to the urbanization and industrialization, several noxious pollutants are discharged into water. Water pollution by various cytotoxic contaminants, e.g. heavy metal ions, drugs, pesticides, dyes, residues a drastic public health issue for human beings; hence, this topic has been receiving much attention for the specific approaches and technologies to remove hazardous contaminants from water and wastewater. In the current review, the cytotoxicity of different sorts of aquatic pollutants for mammalian is presented. In addition, we will overview the recent advances in various nanocomposite-based adsorbents and different approaches of pollutants removal from water/wastewater with several examples to provide a backdrop for future research.

Chemistry Department Faculty of Science Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz Ahvaz 6153753843 Iran

College of Graduate Studies Augusta University Augusta GA USA

Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology Banaras Hindu University Varasani 221005 India

Department of Environmental Engineering University of Engineering and Technology Taxila Taxila 47050 Pakistan

Department of Orthopaedics Bioprinting Research Group Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Orthopaedics The 2nd Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University Wenzhou 325027 China

Institute for Nanomaterials Advanced Technologies and Innovation Technical University of Liberec Studentská 1402 2 46117 Liberec 1 Czech Republic

Institute for Polymers Composites and Biomaterials National Research Council IPCB CNR Naples Italy; Chemistry Department Faculty of Science Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz Ahvaz 6153753843 Iran; Department of Medical Nanotechnology Faculty of Advanced Technologies in Medicine Iran University of Medical Sciences Tehran 14496 14535 Iran

Institute of Research and Development Duy Tan University Da Nang 550000 Viet Nam; Faculty of Environment and Chemical Engineering Duy Tan University Da Nang 550000 Viet Nam; School of Civil Engineering and Surveying Faculty of Health Engineering and Sciences University of Southern Queensland West Street Toowoomba 4350 QLD Australia; Department of Chemical Engineering School of Mining Metallurgy and Chemical Engineering University of Johannesburg P O Box 17011 Doornfontein 2028 South Africa

Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials Palacký University in Olomouc Šlechtitelů 27 783 71 Olomouc Czech Republic

School of Chemistry Damghan University Damghan 36716 41167 Iran

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