Sewage Treatment
Sewage is wastewater discharged from a home, business, or industry. Sewage is treated to remove or alter contaminants in order to minimize the impact of discharging wastewater into th...
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Aerobic Sludge Digestion
Wastewater treatment plants produce organic sludge as wastewater is treated; this sludge must be further treated before ultimate disposal. Sludges are generated from primary...
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Sewage Treatment
Sewage is wastewater discharged from a home, business, or industry. Sewage is treated to remove or alter contaminants in order to minimize the impact of discharging wastewater into ...
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Water Reclamation
The term "water reclamation" can be defined in different ways. In the early and mid-1900s, water reclamation referred primarily to supplying potable water to arid areas...
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Water Treatment
Water treatment—or the purification and sanitation of water—varies as to the source and kinds of water. Municipal waters, for example, consist of surface water and grou...
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China has fired or otherwise punished five officials for failing to prevent pollution blamed for a massive algae bloom in one of the country's biggest lakes, a newspaper reported Monday.The central...
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BEIJING, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Beijing will meet its Olympic
commitments on sewage treatment and water recycling by the end
of the year, officials said on Wednesday. Organisers who made "Green Olympi...
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Kirkuk (dpa) - A cholera outbreak in two northern Iraqi provinces
has killed nine people and infected at least 131, Iraqi health
officials said Sunday.
In Kir...
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Cork, Ireland (dpa) - With the residents of Galway city on
Ireland's west coast deprived of safe drinking water since mid-March,
the environment and a clean water supply are...
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Premier Wen Jiabao on Monday ordered a formal probe into the massive algae growth that smothered one of China's biggest lakes, drawing high-level attention to growing threats facing the country's w...
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Restoration could begin soon on the ecosystem of a northwestern Indiana lake that has been polluted for decades with sewage and stormwater filled with fertilizer from farm fields.The U.S. Army Corp...
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Nineteen people have contracted cholera in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, in the first outbreak of the often-deadly disease in the city in a year, Zimbabwe state radio reported Friday.The 19 are f...
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Riga (dpa) - Lithuanian environmentalists hailed a "lucky escape"
on Tuesday after a major sewage spill into a body of water close to a
UNESCO World Heritage Site was halted...
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Researchers predict that the recurring oxygen-depleted "dead zone" off the Louisiana coast will grow this summer to 8,543 square miles _ its largest in at least 22 years.The forecast, released Mond...
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