Raman spectroscopy as polyvalent alternative for water pollution detection

Human activities are, more or less directly, responsible for increasing pollution in running waters, making this an important issue over the last decades and the ones to come. Many documents define a legal frame on the water pollutants underlying the importance of the surveillance of their presence in the environment. The difficulty in the surveillance of these products is due to the great diversity of the pollutant families, leading to the necessity to use several analytical techniques. This study shows the relevance of using Raman spectrometry for the detection and the quantification of several major pollutant families in an aqueous media such as drugs, pesticides or salts coming from fertilisers.