Going Down the Drain: Inside the Process of Wastewater Treatment

Going down the drain: Inside the process of wastewater treatment

Where one person’s business ends, another’s begins. This is the case for the wastewater produced at the flushing of a toilet or the running of sinks and showers.

Simple tweaks can make wastewater treatment less polluting » Yale Climate Connections

When mixed with oxygen, nitrogen in wastewater creates nitrous oxide, a powerful global warming gas. But there are ways to reduce the harm. The post Simple tweaks can make wastewater treatment less polluting appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.

Wastewater treatment plant upgrades set to future-proof facility for 2 decades

Part of the wastewater treatment plant upgrades includes an ultraviolet treatment system, with lights housed in a newly constructed building beside four sequencing batch reactor tanks. Photo by Lys Morton/Revelstoke Mountaineer As Revelstoke grows over the next 20 years, so too will the wastewater treatment plant, set to meet population expectations with the addition of four sequencing batch reactor tanks in the final stages of installation. The…