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When used on their own, many treatment methods cannot effectively remove pharmaceuticals from aquatic systems. Integrating multiple methods can be beneficial in enhancing removal. For instance, because microorganisms are susceptible to toxic chemicals, pretreatment with advanced oxidation processes can reduce the death rates of microorganisms, and enhance biodegradation of pharmaceuticals as a result (Patel et al., 2019). In addition, RO processes are sensitive to organics and will benefit from a pretreatment step using carbon filtration, for instance. Adsorption methods have also been combined with photocatalysis to take advantage of the strengths of the individual techniques (Yahya et al., 2018). Overall, integrating different removal methods has great potential; however, the compatibility and synergism of different processes deserves further research.