wastewater treatment
Cleaning dirty effluent
Wastewater treatment is the process of removing contaminants from used water before releasing it back into the environment or reusing it.
Municipal treatment plants handle sewage from homes and businesses; industrial facilities treat process water specific to their operations.
Treatment typically involves physical filtering, biological breakdown of organic matter, and chemical disinfection.
The city upgraded its wastewater treatment capacity to handle population growth.
- sewage networkPiped wastewater collection grid
- sewage plantFacility processing human waste
- filtrationSeparating solids from liquids
- bioremediationLiving organisms detoxify pollutants
- sedimentationParticles settling in liquid
disinfection · clarifier · flocculation · coagulation · septic system · reverse osmosis · aeration · pumping station · storm drain · settling · sludge · bacteria · tanks · plant · sewage · effluent · municipal · outfall
- sanitationsewage, sewers, cleaning, sewer, disinfecting
- utilitieselectricity, public utilities, gas service, gas, power
- waste disposalgarbage disposal, trash, garbage, landfilling, landfill
- sewage systemssewage, sewers, sewer, sewer lines, sewer pipes
- water pollutionsewage, contaminants, algal bloom, oil spills, chemical runoff
- Water QualitypH, turbidity, chlorine, pH levels, contaminants
wastewater treatmentsewage dumping
Releasing untreated wastewater improperly
illegal dumping · ocean dumping · water contamination · pollution · contamination
wastewater treatmentwater pollution
Harmful substances in H2O
environmental contamination · industrial pollution · toxic dumping