Sentences with phrase «to treat wastewater»

However, the disposal of treated wastewater from conventional oil and gas operations was allowed to continue.

The measures include solar power expansion, legislation to combat climate change, and a bill to treat wastewater from hydro fracking as hazardous waste.

Another climate - smart water technique is to treat wastewater caused by agricultural processing before it is released back into waterways.

Scientists have largely considered treated wastewater that's released into the environment as the main source.

Developed countries spend about 3 percent of all their electrical power treating wastewater.

Notably missing from the recommendations was direct discharge of treated wastewater into the river, which American Rivers has long opposed.

The fund is further supporting the reduction of emissions from waste through projects that reduce the amount of organic waste in landfill, through diversion to composting and resource recovery, capturing methane from landfills and producing electricity and treating wastewater at places such as sewerage plants or abattoirs.

The first article, «Complex mixtures, complex responses: Assessing pharmaceutical mixtures using field and laboratory approaches,» reports on studies monitoring multiple the life stages of fathead minnows using both simple (groups of drugs with similar modes of action) and complex (groups with diverse modes of action) mixtures of pharmaceuticals commonly found in treated wastewater effluent.

Rolf Halden, cofounder of the Center for Water and Health at Johns Hopkins University, has shown that triclosan and triclocarban show up in many waterways that receive treated wastewater — more than half of the nation's rivers and streams.

Of all these candidate sites, only three would discharge treated wastewater directly into one of the Great Lakes: Superior WI and Whiting (BP) Indiana, in the Chicago area, and Detroit MI.

However, the researchers found that treating wastewater sludge could offer an opportunity to reduce the fossil carbon emissions from treatment plants.

Further this system's effectiveness at reducing the energy needs of a building while treating wastewater was evaluated using replicate buildings over a three year period.

EVERETT, Wash. — Poplar trees, known for their fast growth and versatility, are being used for recycling treated wastewater and cleaning contaminated soil.

By law, car washes must treat their wastewater before disposing of it.

Dabbed - on perfumes, excreted antibiotics, sunscreen lotion, and insect repellent all make their way into treated wastewater which is often sluiced back into the nation's streams.

Firstly treating the wastewater through the anaerobic digestion process provides the industry with a substantially treated effluent.

«This world - class technology — which can be applied globally by all community - minded companies with organic waste and wastewater streams — produces both green energy to supplant fossil fuel needs as well as delivering high quality treated wastewater to safeguard community water standards.

«Green energy alternatives such as wind power and solar power get most of the headlines for their achievements, but anaerobic processes are even more suited to industry in many instances, given that it provides reliable base load power and simultaneously treats wastewater to high discharge standards.

«Coal was a cheap fuel for producing steam when we began treating our wastewater in the 1990s, so the need to supplement coal with biogas wasn't there.

Mangano is also trying to advance an ambitious proposal to repurpose a century - old aqueduct to divert treated wastewater from a sewage treatment plant in Bay Park to another facility in Wantagh, where it will be released into the ocean.

He says there has to be a way to replace septic systems with modern sewer technology that can treat wastewater better.

The findings suggest that these particles, which end up at municipal sewage treatment plants after being washed off in showers, could eliminate microbes that play vital roles in ecosystems and help treat wastewater.

Over the past 20 years, the district has modernized its water reclamation system, which now returns 70 billion gallons of treated wastewater annually to Lake Mead, the source of 90 percent of Las Vegas's water.

IDR reintroduces treated wastewater into groundwater supplies, where it re-enters the drinking water system.

Treated wastewater applications, the authors say, include industrial cooling and landscape irrigation.

Municipalities in the United States currently use very little treated wastewater.

Although many people cringe at the thought of «toilet to tap» cycles that convert wastewater to drinking water, astronauts onboard the space station and residents in Singapore readily drink treated wastewater every day with no ill effects.

An independent assessment for the Water Environment & Reuse Foundation calls HTL a highly disruptive technology that has potential for treating wastewater solids.

Disinfection by - products are potentially toxic compounds that form when disinfection agents used to treat drinking water react with compounds in the water — which can come from a number of sources, including treated wastewater.

Orange County differs from most communities in that it purifies treated wastewater instead of discharging it directly into rivers and oceans.

«The companies treat wastewater and get most of the muck out,» Hanrahan says.

For example, the Geysers geothermal site in California injects non-potable treated wastewater into its geothermal reservoir [4].

Instead, the group recommended that Big Sky seek to become a model community by pursuing innovative solutions such as using highly treated wastewater to irrigate local golf courses and make snow on low - gradient ski slopes in early winter.

Patagonia currently uses a company called Swisstex California to dye its fabrics, with a special process that uses half as much water as an average dyehouse in the United States and treats all wastewater fully before releasing it.

Florida may start pumping treated wastewater underground to boost drinking water supplies for a growing population.

Thanks to work such as this, in the future, it may be possible to power the plants that treat our wastewater by using the wastewater itself as «fuel» for an army of microorganisms that can produce electricity.

It's also found in high concentrations in treated wastewater that is sometimes used to irrigate crops.

Furthermore, the researchers found that treating wastewater sludge could offer an opportunity to reduce the fossil carbon emissions from treatment plants, noting that on - site carbon sequestration run on renewable energy could also lower these plants» impact.

While treated wastewater that is introduced back into the environment is an obvious route for drugs to enter waterways, Paul M. Bradley and colleagues wanted to see whether other sources might be involved.

Mark Gold says it'll take a combination of capturing stormwater, recycling treated wastewater and restoring groundwater.

The EPA took another step toward tightening oversight of hydraulic fracturing today, announcing it would initiate a process to set national rules for treating wastewater discharged from gas drilling operations.

The effluent would then connect to a new pipe running south along the Wantagh State Parkway and to the Cedar Creek Sewage Treatment Plant in Wantagh, which uses an ocean outfall pipe to discharge treated wastewater three miles into the ocean.

The measures include solar power expansion, legislation to combat climate change, and a bill to treat wastewater from hydrofracking as hazardous waste.