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Ohio is a major research and development center, home to many institutions. In 2008, institutions and companies in the state won 10 R&D 100 Awards, given annually to the top 100 innovations recognized by R&D Magazine, finishing second behind California. [90] Ohio State University is among the country's top public research institutions at #7. [91]
Sewage farms” (i.e. wastewater application to the land for disposal and agricultural use) were operated in Bunzlau (Silesia) in 1531, in Edinburgh (Scotland) in 1650, in Paris (France) in 1868, in Berlin (Germany) in 1876 and in different parts of the US since 1871, where wastewater was used for beneficial crop production.
The Ohio EPA has withdrawn a controversial proposal to allow small, privately operated sewage-treatment plants to aid rapid development. Ohio EPA pulls plan for small sewage-treatment plants in ...
The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, abbreviated NEORSD, is a public utility district serving most of Cuyahoga County and a portion of Summit and Lorain Counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. [1] The district manages three wastewater treatment facilities and all of the interceptor sewers in the service area.
The city said that with the completion of these projects, Akron will capture 99% of the wet weather flows entering the combined sewer system and reduce the original annual number of combined ...
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At the global level, an estimated 52% of sewage is treated. [8] However, sewage treatment rates are highly unequal for different countries around the world. For example, while high-income countries treat approximately 74% of their sewage, developing countries treat an average of just 4.2%. [8]
Sewage (or domestic wastewater) consists of wastewater discharged from residences and from commercial, institutional and public facilities that exist in the locality. [2]: 10 Sewage is a mixture of water (from the community's water supply), human excreta (feces and urine), used water from bathrooms, food preparation wastes, laundry wastewater, and other waste products of normal living.