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 where water was not readily available, through the development of...

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 the environment. The operations and processes used in sewage...

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 the environment. The operations and processes used in sewage treatment...

Wastewater treatment plants produce organic sludge as wastewater is treated; this sludge must be further treated before ultimate disposal. Sludges are generated from primary settling tanks, which are used to remove settable, particulate solids, and...

Sewage treatment, or domestic wastewater treatment, is the process of removing contaminants from wastewater, both runoff (effluents) and domestic. It includes physical, chemical and biological processes to remove physical, chemical and biological...

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 government has ordered all towns around the lake to establish sewage treatment plants and...

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 water bodies.Citing pollution as its main cause, Wen said the Lake Tai algae outbreak "has...

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 Corps of Engineers is finishing a $600,000 study of possible ways to restore the ecosystem...

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 from the impoverished eastern townships of Mabvuku and Tafara, where residents have gone without...