What is a Waste Water Treatment Plant?
Waste water is water that is collected in drainage and sewer systems. This may include water from residential and industrial use and rain water. Waste water may contain harmful bacteria, organisms, solid wastes, and other harmful chemicals and pollutants. A waste water treatment plant is a facility that receives waste water and treats and cleans it for redistribution back into nature or for reuse.
Waste water is water that is collected in drainage and sewer systems. This may include water from residential and industrial use and rain water. Waste water may contain harmful bacteria, organisms, solid wastes, and other harmful chemicals and pollutants. A waste water treatment plant is a facility that receives waste water and treats and cleans it for redistribution back into nature or for reuse. In the past, waste water was simply disposed of in large bodies of water. The large size of a body of water would dilute much of the pollutants present in the waste water. In addition, natural organisms would, over time, break down the pollutants in the water. Because the process of breaking down harmful organisms takes time to naturally occur, this method of treatment would not adequately nor effectively treat and clean the enormous volume of waste water that is produced today.
