Water treatment is any process that improves the quality of water to make it appropriate for a specific end-use. The end use may be drinking, industrial...

Sewage treatment (or domestic wastewater treatment, municipal wastewater treatment) is a type of wastewater treatment which aims to remove contaminants...

In terms of water treatment, including water purification and sewage treatment, backwashing refers to pumping water backwards through the filters media...

to reuse it. This process is called water reclamation. The treatment process takes place in a wastewater treatment plant. There are several kinds of wastewater...

Magnetic water treatment (also known as anti-scale magnetic treatment or AMT) is a method of supposedly reducing the effects of hard water by passing...

In water treatment, coagulation and flocculation involve the addition of compounds that promote the clumping of fine floc into larger floc so that they...

applications in water treatment, whereby gravity acts to remove suspended solids from water. Solid particles entrained by the turbulence of moving water may be...

many uses of water in industry and, in most cases, the used water also needs treatment to render it fit for re-use or disposal. Raw water entering an industrial...

the quality of the water being treated, the cost of the treatment process and the quality standards expected of the processed water. The processes below...

The water industry provides drinking water and wastewater services (including sewage treatment) to residential, commercial, and industrial sectors of the...