Algae Toxins and Their Treatment

Abstract

Algae are distributed worldwide in the sea, in freshwater and in wet situations on land. Most are microscopic algae, but some of them are so large, also some marine seaweeds that can exceed 50 m in length. The algae have chlorophyll and can make their own food through the steps of photosynthesis. Recently they are classified in the kingdom of protested, which include a variety of unicellular and some basic multinuclear and multicellular eukaryotic organisms that have cells. Algal poisoning is an intense, often lethal condition caused by high concentrations of toxic blue-green algae (more commonly known as cyanobacteria—literally blue-green bacteria) in drinking water as well as in water used for recreation, agriculture and aquaculture. The study cur in the productive dangerous from the algae toxin that productive from cyanobacteria in aquatic environment. The important contamination for water source identification and non-identification and identify on algae that responsible on productive of toxin in water that represented by Cylindrospermum, Aphanizomenon Anabaena, Microcystis, Lyngbya, Oscillatoria, phormidium, and suitable environment for algae to productive toxin. Such as temperature, pH, nutrient, salinity, density identify on the toxin concentration in water that content organisms that productive toxin between (1–100 mg/l). With the use of different methods of treating algal toxins such as (potassium permanganate, activated carbon, oxidation, chlorine and ozone), and the best treatment was the use of potassium permanganate at a concentration (2 mg/l), which gave the best treatment while preserving the ecosystem.