Wastewater

Wastewater (or waste water) is water generated after the use of freshwater, raw water, drinking water or saline water in a variety of deliberate applications...

Wastewater treatment is a process which removes and eliminates contaminants from wastewater and converts this into an effluent that can be returned to...

Sewage (or domestic sewage, domestic wastewater, municipal wastewater) is a type of wastewater that is produced by a community of people. It is typically...

Sewage treatment (or domestic wastewater treatment, municipal wastewater treatment) is a type of wastewater treatment which aims to remove contaminants...

Industrial wastewater treatment describes the processes used for treating wastewater that is produced by industries as an undesirable by-product. After...

called wastewater reuse, water reuse or water recycling) is the process of converting municipal wastewater (sewage) or industrial wastewater into water...

Point sources have one identifiable cause, such as a storm drain, a wastewater treatment plant or an oil spill. Non-point sources are more diffuse, such...

resources. The wastewater may have a high proportion of organic and inorganic contaminants at the initial discharge. Industries generate wastewater as a result...

Conventional wastewater treatment refers to various methods of treating different categories of wastewater, and may include any of the following: Sewage...

portal Sanitary engineering, also known as public health engineering or wastewater engineering, is the application of engineering methods to improve sanitation...

Wastewater comes out of the laundry process with additional energy (heat), lint, soil, dyes, finishing agents, and other chemicals from detergents. Some...

Agricultural wastewater treatment is a farm management agenda for controlling pollution from confined animal operations and from surface runoff that may...

Wastewater surveillance is the process of monitoring wastewater for contaminants. Amongst other uses, it can be used for biosurveillance, to detect the...

The water industry provides drinking water and wastewater services (including sewage treatment) to residential, commercial, and industrial sectors of the...

This page consists of a list of wastewater treatment technologies: Activated sludge model Activated sludge systems Adsorption/Bio-oxidation process Advanced...

biological wastewater treatment) is the removal of biodegradable organic matter (in solution or suspension) from sewage or similar kinds of wastewater.: 11 ...

Wastewater-based epidemiology (or wastewater-based surveillance or sewage chemical-information mining) analyzes wastewater to determine the consumption...

Winery wastewater is primarily generated during the cleaning of winemaking equipment and facilities. The quantity and quality of wastewater shows seasonal...

chamber made of concrete, fiberglass, or plastic through which domestic wastewater (sewage) flows for basic sewage treatment. Settling and anaerobic digestion...

Moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) is a type of wastewater treatment process that was first invented by Professor Hallvard Ødegaard at Norwegian University...