Catalytic technologies have been paid increasing attention in refractory pollutants abatement due to its practical and potential values in water purification.As effective and efficient approaches for water purification,Fenton’s reagent,ozonation,electrochemical and photocatalytic methods have been widely studied and applied in different aspects and have been reviewed by several papers.In recent years,some novel catalytic processes based on above processes have been developed for enhancing the efficiency of removing the organics form water.This reviews emphasize on the recent development of heterogeneous catalytic ozonation,electrocatalysis in respect of novel electrodes and electro-Fenton method (EF),photoelectrocatalysis process (PEC) and photoelectron-Fenton (PEF) in water purification.It is also an attempt to propose general ideas about mechanism and principle enhancing the catalytic efficiency for degradation and mineralization of organics in water.