Rishav Prakash discusses heavy metal removal technologies. Trace amounts of heavy metals like copper, iron, and zinc are required by organisms, but excessive levels can be toxic. Sources of heavy metals include mining, agriculture, solid waste, automobiles, and fossil fuel emissions. Removal technologies discussed include reverse osmosis, precipitation, ion exchange, adsorption, and biosorption. Biosorption is the passive binding of heavy metals by inactive biomass like algae, fungi, and bacteria through mechanisms like adsorption, ion exchange, complexation, and precipitation. Obligate halophilic fungi like Aspergillus flavus and Sterigmatomyces halophilus show potential for biosorbing cadm