• Sajad Ahmad Raina
• Dr. Ashit Dutta
• Dr. Humaria Qadri

The impact of agricultural and industrial development has lead a serious environmental contaminants nowadays by adding heavy metals in water bodies. The heavy metals exhibits toxic effects on human health and environment and cause serious diseases in human beings. Heavy metal pollution comes from different sources into lake/aquatic ecosystems all over the world, especially in our country; India needs rapid consideration so that our degrading aquatic ecosystems will be remediated. There are several remediation techniques used for removing of heavy metal from the polluted environments but these techniques are not ecofriendly and have high limitations such as high cost, logistic problems, long time, and mechanical burden and have negative effects on the environment. Phytoremediation using different green plants is an eco-friendly technology, efficient and cost effective technology that reflects promising results for contaminants like heavy metals and other compounds. The plants, terrestrial or aquatic, play an important role in remediation of heavy metals from contaminated environments. Different countries have recommended some plants that have the capability to reduce the pollutant load from the polluted environs are commonly used in phytoremediation. To improve the feasibility of phytoremediation in environmental restoration, more research is needed to investigate the effects of different types of catalysts on phytoremediation efficiency. Therefore, the present review provides a recent update of different countries for the growth and applications of phytoremediation in diverse environments, including water, air and soil.

Heavy metals, plants, water, phytoremediation, Countries, Lakes.

"Review of heavy metal pollution load and aquatic plants used for the remediation of heavy metals in different lakes of the country", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.178-189, May 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905Y26.pdf

"Review of heavy metal pollution load and aquatic plants used for the remediation of heavy metals in different lakes of the country", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp178-189, May 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905Y26.pdf