The spent or used water from a home, community, farm, or industry that contains dissolved or suspended matter
Water that has been used and contains unwanted materials from homes, businesses, and industries; a mixture of water and dissolved or suspended substances
Residential, agricultural, business or industrial water that contains added wastes
Any water that has been used by some human domestic or indistrial activity and so contains waste products
The spent or used water from a home, community, farm, or industry that contains dissolved or suspended matter Water Pollution: The presence in water of enough harmful or objectionable material to damage the water's quality
Liquid waste resulting from commercial, municipal, private or industrial processes This includes but is not limited to, cooling and condensing waters, sanitary sewage, industrial waste and contaminated rainwater runoff
The used water containing dissolved or suspended matter from homes, businesses, or industries
Wastewater is comprised of domestic sewage, wastewater from commercial, industrial and institutional establishments, along with ground water infiltration
water that has been used in homes, industries, and businesses that is not for reuse unless it is treated
Water that carries wastes from homes, businesses, and industries; a mixture of water and dissolved or suspended solids
The used water and solids from a community (including used water from industrial processes) that flow to a treatment plant Storm water, surface water, and groundwater infiltration also may be included in the wastewater that enters a wastewater treatment plant The term -sewage usually refers to household wastes, but this word is being replaced by the term -wastewater
is used water and waste from our homes and workplaces Also known as sewage, wastewater is 99% water The other 1% consists of
dissolved or suspended waterborne waste material Sanitary or domestic wastewater refers to liquid material collected from residents, offices, and institutions Municipal wastewater is a general term applied to any liquid treated in a municipal treatment plant Industrial wastes refer to wastewater from manufacturing plants
Consumed or used water from a municipality or industry that contains dissolved and/or suspended matter
Spent or used water from individual homes, a community, a farm, or an industry that contains dissolved or suspended matter
The spent or used water from individual homes, a community, a farm, or an industry that often contains dissolved or suspended matter
spent or used water from a home, community, or industry that contains dissolved or suspended matter
Water which has been used for some purpose and would normally be treated and discarded Wastewater usually contains significant quantities of pollutant (see Effluent and Pollution)
Liquid or waterborne wastes polluted or fouled from households, commercial or industrial operations, along with any surface water, storm water or groundwater infiltration
Water that has been used in homes, industries and businesses that is not for reuse unless it is treated
(1) A combination of liquid and water-carried pollutants from homes, businesses, industries, or farms; a mixture of water and dissolved or suspended solids (2) That water for which, because of quality, quantity, or time of occurrence, disposal is more economical than use at the time and point of its occurrence Waste water to one user may be a desirable supply to the same or another user at a different location Also referred to as Domestic Wastewater
Chemical, biological, and mechanical procedures applied to an industrial or municipal discharge or to any other sources of contaminated water to remove, reduce, or neutralize contaminants
Any of the mechanical or chemical processes used to modify the quality of waste water in order to make it more compatible or acceptable to man and his environment
Any of the mechanical or chemical processes used to modify the quality of wastewater in order to make it more compatible or acceptable to humans and the environment
The process of removing pollutants from water that has been used There are different stages of treatment Primary sewage treatment involves screening the water to remove the largest solids from wastewater and then letting the water sit in settling tanks so that the smaller solids and particles sink to the bottom Secondary treatment involves another stage in which microbes added to the wastewater to eat the biological pollutants, or the wastewater is put through another filter Then the treated water is disinfected and released back into nature The more steps included in the treatment, the more expensive the process