Wastewater Management – Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrades

Wastewater treatment plants are offsite, centralized systems meant to remove toxins, pathogens, organic material, and more from sewage and wastewater coming from residential, industrial, and municipal environments.
The remaining water after this treatment process is known as grey water and could potentially be used for services such as crop irrigation and industrial cooling processes. Greywater reuse can increase water productivity and reduce freshwater demand in places where freshwater is not an unlimited resource (which is most places.) To date, there does not appear to be wide-scale implementation of wastewater treatment plants harnessing and supplying municipalities with gray water for reuse.
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