Cadmium is a component of some pigments and used as a stabilizer of some thermoplastics, eg. PVC. In the combustion of fossil fuels, plastics, and passes cadmium into the atmosphere. Subsequently, the heavy metal gets due to atmospheric water from contaminated atmosphere into the soil.
The article describes the sources, forms and health risks of cadmium in water and mainly removal of cadmium from water using sorption materials CFH 0818, Bayoxide E33 and GEH. The results of laboratory measurement show that all three materials were able to reduce cadmium concentrations well below the limit of decree no. 252/2004 Sb.