Water resources experience an ever-rising contamination by pharmaceuticals and agents of personal care products (PPCPs). According to a report of the German Environmental Agency, evaluating over 2000 publications on the occurrence of pharmaceuticals in water resources, over 600 substances or their transformation products were detected in water resources all over the world, with a total of 37 pharmaceutically active agents being detected in every UN world region. In the view of rising water pollution by PPCPs and other contaminants, the Directorate-General for Environment of the European Commission recently proposed a new directive on environmental quality standards, laying the basis for stricter and more consistent legislation for the protection of water resources from pollution. The pathways of PPCP contamination are diverse, ranging from production facility effluents over urban and hospital wastewaters to livestock farming sewage or leakage from landfills. The accumulation of antibiotics in reservoirs can lead to the development of multi-resistant bacteria . Other compounds like Ibuprofen (IBU), Naproxen (NPX) or Carbamazepine (CBZ) are known to have an impact on the endocrine and reproductive systems of zebrafish and Florida flagfish on the lab-scale, potentially impacting biodiversity and local ecosystems directly. Conventional wastewater treatment is often unfit to remove PPCP contaminants from wastewaters, leading to their accumulation in reservoirs and to dispersion into different environmental compartments. Degradation based processes like photolysis, advanced oxidation processes or microbial degradation can transform emerging contaminants into other compounds. In some cases, these products are non-hazardous and can be allowed to dissipate into the environment while other transformation products are even more hazardous or more persistent towards biodegradation. The adsorption-based removal of these compounds from water represents a possibility to remove emerging contaminants before they enter surface waters and prevent their accumulation and dissipation, as well as avoiding the production of hazardous transformation products. As adsorbents, various materials are available, each having advantages and disadvantages. Activated carbons (AC) have been shown to successfully remove organic molecules from water due to their large surface areas and their high affinity towards numerous PPCPs. Unfortunately, the adsorption on ACs is highly unspecific so passivation of the adsorbent and coadsorption of natural organic matter is inevitable. Clay materials are also studied for the adsorption of PPCPs from water with similar advantages and disadvantages as ACs. Materials with a defined pore system are more selective towards the adsorption of specific contaminants and less affected by coadsorption and passivation. While Metal-Organic Frameworks are in principle good candidates for the adsorption of PPCPs from water because of their defined pores and tunability by incorporation of functional groups, they are often not thermally stable, rendering their regeneration impractical. Moreover, their synthesis also tends to be expensive. Natural and synthetic zeolites constitute promising candidates for the adsorption-based removal of PPCPs from water, because of their high selectivity, thermal stability and, in the case of synthetic high-/all-silica zeolites, hydrophobicity. Several experimental studies have focused on the adsorption of PPCPs by zeolites from water.