Wastewater Treatment Quotes

Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health.

Sewage works that serve big cities run into trouble when the cities grow up around them.

Around New York City, samples collected at dozens of beaches or piers have detected the types of bacteria and other pollutants tied to sewage overflows. Though the city's drinking water comes from upstate reservoirs, environmentalists say untreated excrement and other waste in the city's waterways pose serious health risks.

I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants.

You can't go around... licking things that come out of a water treatment plant. That's just... unsanitary.

I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyor belt... They made their way through the machine... A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water.

We are wasting our water mostly by putting waste into it. One cubic meter of wastewater can pollute ten cubic meters of water. Discharging wastewater into oceans turns freshwater into the less useful salty stuff, and desalination is expensive.

One goal of the Clean Water Act of 1972 was to upgrade the nation's sewer systems, many of them built more than a century ago, to handle growing populations and increasing runoff of rainwater and waste.

Biosolids

We're working on ways to make potable water from polluted water, whether it has organics in it or salt from the ocean, at very low energy input.

'Absolute Water' converts sewage water into water which can be even consumed - if only one can get rid of the taboo of drinking sewage water, which they do in many parts of the world!

Upgrading and replacing deficient wastewater systems will help improve service to customers and protect the Gulf, both of which are important for future growth on the coast.

Why do they bother saying "raw sewage"? Do some people actually cook that stuff?

Some countries have more water than others - some can afford to use clean water to flush their poop away, and some can't.

State and federal studies indicate that thousands of water and sewer systems may be too old to function properly.