ABSTRACT The technology that use living plants to clean up the enviroment is know as phytoremediation. One of the plants that haspotency as phytoremediator is water lettuce (Pistias tratiotes, L.). The aim of this study was to determine the ability of water lettuce as phytoremediator of lead (II), cadmium (II) and chromium (VI) based on contact time (exposure period) variations (0, 3, 6 and 12…