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  2. List of largest wastewater treatment plants - Wikipedia

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    Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant [9] Washington D.C. USA: 1937 1 450 000 4 073 000 0.62 Secondary treatment since 1959. Enhanced nutrient removal in 2014. Deer Island Waste Water Treatment Plant: Boston USA: 1968 1 438 000 4 542 000 0.6 [10] Full secondary treatment since 1995. Abu Rawash Wastewater treatment plant Giza Egypt ...

  3. Municipal wastewater treatment energy management - Wikipedia

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    Among the water and wastewater services of a city, wastewater treatment is usually the most energy intense process. [2]Wastewater treatment plants are designed with the purpose of treating the influent sewage to a set quality before discharging it back into a water body, without real concern for the energy consumption of the treating units of a plant.

  4. Wastewater treatment - Wikipedia

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    Sewage treatment plant (a type of wastewater treatment plant) in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Wastewater treatment is a process which removes and eliminates contaminants from wastewater. It thus converts it into an effluent that can be returned to the water cycle. Once back in the water cycle, the effluent creates an acceptable impact on the environment.

  5. Sewage treatment - Wikipedia

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    Sewage treatment (or domestic wastewater treatment, municipal wastewater treatment) is a type of wastewater treatment which aims to remove contaminants from sewage to produce an effluent that is suitable to discharge to the surrounding environment or an intended reuse application, thereby preventing water pollution from raw sewage discharges. [2]

  6. List of abbreviations used in sanitation - Wikipedia

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    aka or a.k.a. - "also known as" AMCOW - African Ministers’ Council on Water; As - Arsenic; ATS - Aerobic treatment system; AusAID - Australian Agency for International Development; AWF - African Water Facility, an initiative of the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW), hosted and administered by African Development Bank (AfDB)

  7. Publicly owned treatment works - Wikipedia

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    A publicly owned treatment works (POTW) is a term used in the United States for a sewage treatment plant owned, and usually operated, by a government agency. In the U.S., POTWs are typically owned by local government agencies, and are usually designed to treat domestic sewage and not industrial wastewater .

  8. San José–Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility - Wikipedia

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    The facility treats 110 million U.S. gallons (420 megaliters) of wastewater per day, with a capacity of up to 167 million U.S. gal/d (630 ML/d), making it the largest tertiary treatment plant in the western United States. It serves 1.5 million residents and over 17,000 business facilities in eight cities.

  9. Industrial wastewater treatment - Wikipedia

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    Activated sludge tank at Beckton sewage treatment plant, UK. The white bubbles are due to the diffused air aeration system. The activated sludge process is a type of biological wastewater treatment process for treating sewage or industrial wastewaters using aeration and a biological floc composed of bacteria and protozoa.