Due to their wide range of application, phenolic compounds are used in different industries such as chemical industries, coal and gas industries, dye, textile, explosive industries and pharmaceutical industries. It is used in chemical industries to produce other derivatives such as resins, aniline, cresols and alkylphenols . Phenol serves as a vital part of many products like paints, medicine and lubricants. It is specially used as an intermediate product in the synthesis of phenolic compounds such as formaldehyde resins. It is also used to produce epoxide resins and polycarbonate which serves as a precursor for making plastic . The pharmaceutical application of phenolic derivatives is remarkable as it used as a flexible precursor in drugs like aspirin and pharyngitis, cosmetics like sunscreen, skin lighting products and hair dye . Phenolic derivatives find its application in wood distillation, water disinfection and for making paper, all this results in the formation of chlorophenols . The phenolic contaminated effluents are discharged by the industries directly or indirectly which results in water pollution due to phenolic contamination. It is observed that the concentration of phenolic discharge from refineries is 6-500 mg L -1 , cooking processes is 28-3900 mg L -1 , coal and gas processing is 9-6800 mg L -1 , pharmaceutical product is 0.1-1600 mg L -1 and petrochemical plants is 2.8-1220 mg L -1 . In a study, second largest river of Ukraine, Dniester was studied, which reported that due to oil field nearby the river, phenolic concentration on the surface water of Dniester River was observed to be 0.009 and 0.081 mg L -1 , whereas the reservoir contained an average of 0.026 mg L -1 of phenolic derivatives . Phenols are the major constituents of pesticides, insecticides and herbicides which are the main agricultural sources of water pollution by phenolic compounds. Most pentachlorophenol and chlorophenols such as 2,4-dichlorophenol, 2-chlorophenol are used in pesticides . Other phenolic derivatives such as 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid are used as pesticides . Pentachlorophenol degrades to other chlorophenols with lower chlorine substituents . These pesticides, insecticides, herbicides and their degradation by products are often washed into the water system.