What Are the Benefits of Wastewater Treatment?

Wastewater is anything from water that flows down the sink or toilet to runoff from snow and rain that enters storm drainage systems. Wastewater treatment processes remove a variety of contaminants from water to make it usable again. 

The benefits of such treatment depend on the nature of the contaminants in the water and the end use of the water treated.

Clean Water

Water is a renewable resource because it gets purified through evaporation and rain; however, only about 3 percent of the earth's water is potable. 

Although nature slowly cleans wastewater over time, the main benefit of wastewater treatment is maintaining clean water for reuse.

New Research and Improvements

Wastewater treatment processes are changing as researchers develop new techniques. Such research leads to improvements in purification, the speed of water treatment and uses for the waste products removed. 

Development of new processes also saves more energy, time and resources, which are then available for other needs.

Wastewater Treatment

Disease

Wastewater treatment processes can contain and remove potential disease-causing contaminants through a filtering system that blocks their path and further treatment that kills harmful organisms. 

This keeps potential diseases and bacteria from entering other water sources, or the ground, and harming people as well as plants and animals. Treatment systems continue to develop better methods of purifying the water.

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