Neetu TalrejaChitrakara HegdeEnamala Manoj KumarMurthy Chavali2025-06-292025-06-292025-02-1697813941592849781394159390http://doi.org/10.1002/9781394159390.ch5https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-105001266286&doi=10.1002%2f9781394159390.ch5&partnerID=40&md5=13e4041d5661b2bfb8a4623fd0a14187https://gnanaganga.alliance.edu.in/handle/123456789/8272Emerging environmental contaminants (ECs) are present in many different forms through air, water and land and their detection is becoming a humongous task for several researchers. The chemistry of natural water has been a topic of interest for centuries, which many researchers have discovered in their long period of investigation and have forgotten as well. The emerging contaminants are the natural or synthetic molecules or compounds which enter into the environment that are not monitored generally but harm the environment and can influence the ecology and health of the public. The various contaminants include antibiotics, hormones, pesticides and various pharmaceutical products, and due to this the drinking water is also getting contaminated as there are traces of the molecules left over during the treatment of these contaminated waters. These ECs have the potential to contaminate by entering into the environment depending on their release into the environment and degradation of the compounds and their pattern of use. In the current scenario, there are various detection techniques available but due to continuous development in the detection and analysis of trace pollutants, a technique needs to be identified which can detect even the minute-to-minute quantity of the element and should be able to detect the biosensors which are being used to detect these micropollutants. In this chapter, we try to identify the various techniques available to detect the various micropollutants across a wide variety of sources.enEmerging environmental contaminants (ECs)Green TechnologiesIndustrial ContaminantsChemistrybook-chapter