Sentences with word «wastewater»

With the addition of carbon from treatment plants, previous estimates of the total greenhouse gas emissions of wastewater treatment plants could increase by 12 to 23 percent.

With their findings, the researchers are recommending the addition of wastewater treatment plants to the climate action plans of the government to curb emissions from this source.

This means that it can reach the ocean in wastewater from homes after we wash ourselves.

New Danish research has now revealed that the most common resistance genes in wastewater treatment plants are not to be found among bacteria outside these facilities — in people or animals, for example.

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

The current regulatory framework for wastewater disposal wells was designed to protect drinking water sources from contamination and does not address earthquake safety.

One explanation may be that as high - pressure pockets from wastewater injections continue to spread underground like a drop of water on a paper towel, they encounter new and sometimes larger faults.

And it's smart planning to be looking for ways to turn wastewater into a usable resource and to reduce water consumption overall.

The environmental, economic, and societal footprint of a dam and reservoir may extend well beyond the immediate area, impacting drinking water, recreation, fisheries, wildlife, and wastewater disposal.

«The weight of evidence suggests that at least half of the 42 substances examined in the present study are likely to be removed in municipal wastewater treatment plants,» the authors wrote.

Could a loophole in organic standards and food safety regulations mean that parents looking to feed their kids healthy food might end up giving them produce grown with wastewater from oil production?

We found 68 stations located at wastewater treatment plants, where the process of waste digestion causes temperatures to be higher than in surrounding areas.

Does earthquake insurance cover earthquakes caused by wastewater injection?

However, their landscape also does more than clean and recycle wastewater, it also produces food.

Various chemical and biological methods are currently being used to treat industrial wastewater.

Companies separate the water and other by - products from the oil and inject it back into the ground via wastewater wells (a step designed to protect soil and surface water).

In fact there lies a huge, often hidden, potential in using wastewater as a source of renewable energy.

Conducted inspections of wastewater infrastructure at restaurants, automotive service businesses and other locations that contribute grease or harmful chemicals to the sewer system.

This behavior can be exploited in microbial fuel cells, with a special focus on wastewater treatment schemes.

Do they help clean wastewater, like tiny roadside treatment plants?

The cause, scientists say, is injecting wastewater from oil and gas operations into deep underground wells.

A third aspect is the advantages farmers could have using this technology in comparison with the traditional irrigation with untreated wastewater.

It was only after deep injection disposal wells used to house fracking's toxic wastewater went into operation that the earthquakes started.

But she added in the letter the funding is spread out over five years and should also include wastewater infrastructure and a «dedicated line» for clean drinking water.

All onsite wastewater treatment systems need regular ongoing maintenance.

The plan: The team has a new wastewater treatment process that it says will significantly lower the cost of eliminating nitrogen from water.

There is a significant lack of publicly available information about how much electricity and what types of generation sources are used by water and wastewater utilities.

When considering on - site wastewater treatment it comes highly recommended that industries approach a resource (water and energy) management programme in an integrated manner.

The county executive acknowledged that while the quality of local waters is impacted largely by lack of advanced wastewater treatment in homes, agricultural uses also play a part in nitrogen pollution.

Between the 1980s and 2005, the volume of wastewater flowing into the river increased from about 2 billion tons to 4.3 billion tons.

We have extensive experience handling issues such as industrial and domestic wastewater; storage tank regulation; and landfill, used oil, and hazardous waste permitting and regulation.

Just ask a farmer whose fields were ruined by gas drilling wastewater.

Your problem is not wastewater backup, but some sort of crossed supply - line connection that carries water to both shower and washer, instead of one at a time.

We report on contamination from the millions of gallons of toxic wastewater generated each day by tar sands mines.

Currently, there are treatments in which wastewater can flow out to the river or sea without causing any environmental problems.

If widely used, this technology has the potential to eliminate millions of gallons of wastewater per year and reduce the use of a hazardous chemical by 50 percent.

While the ultimate fate of the various elements has been little studied to date, a large proportion is known to enter wastewater.

This new finding builds on previous studies showing that earthquake activity increases when wastewater injections increase.

Both GHGs can be produced and emitted at many stages between wastewater sources and final disposal.

There, the county's aging wastewater plant was under orders to stop dumping waste into the ocean.

He recently hosted an online presentation for wastewater operations managers of city governments.

Protecting public health and the environment managing wastewater treatment facilities or water plants.

Moreover, another set of cancer - causing chemicals found in similar wastewater associated with coal - bed methane mining was not observed.

Major power consumers like the local wastewater treatment facility and the local pool are getting in on the act — adjusting how much electricity they use depending on how hard the wind is blowing.

If wastewater treatment facilities are not the major culprit, people may want to look their everyday clothes.

We will also extend our anaerobic and aerobic wastewater treatment technologies focused on industries such as the food and beverage, chemical, pulp and paper and primary industries.

The top priorities for urban water sustainability include the provision of safe drinking water, wastewater handling for public health, and protection against flooding.