ISTC develops cutting-edge technologies to identify, treat, and prevent emerging environmental contaminants.
What are Pollutants?
Pollutants render a place or substance unusable. For example, a sewage leak into the local drinking water supply would result in a boil order because the water is unusable for drinking unless it is boiled first. Pollutants can be organic, inorganic, living, or nonliving.
Emerging contaminants are pollutants whose potential adverse effects on the environment or human health were not previously known, or about which little is known.