Phytoremediation potentials of for nutrients and organic pollutants from textile wastewater.

We used live water hyacinth (WH, ) to purify effluents from textile factories and monitored changes in the physicochemical properties, organic pollutants, and WH biomass. Although the water plant could not thrive in the highly polluted effluents after eight weeks, it achieved 55, 91, 53, 84, 96, 53, and 55% removal efficiency for total Kjeldahl-N (tK-N), NH-N, organic-N, PO, SO, Cl, and hardness, respectively. Likewise, the biomass growth showed a positive and strong correlation with NH-N (0.