Gülbeyi Dursun

Introduction Water is accepted as the most valuable natural resource necessary for the survival of all living things. Ensuring easy access to clean water stands as one of humanity‘s paramount concerns. As a result of increasing industrialization and urbanization in the world in the last few decades, and again according to a recent report of the United Nations, it is predicted that both population and chemical production will increase.1 It has been reported by Akhtar et al.