treatment plants

Water cleaning facilities

Treatment plants are facilities that process water, sewage, or industrial waste to remove contaminants before discharge or reuse.

A water treatment plant purifies drinking water; a wastewater treatment plant handles sewage: The city built a new treatment plant to handle population growth.

Also called processing plants in industrial contexts.

Opposites
processing method

treatment plantswetlands

Water-saturated terrain

ponds · marshes · aquifers

contamination direction

treatment plantspollution sources

Origins of environmental contamination

polluters · landfills · agricultural runoff

infrastructure presence

treatment plantsopen sewers

Uncovered channels for wastewater

cesspools

Family

plant, treatment

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G