Tag: wastewater
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Is your drinking water safe? Here’s how you can find out
America’s drinking water infrastructure is aging and in serious need of modernization. Pipes are overdue for replacement, and water and wastewater treatment systems need upgrades to deal with new classes of pollutants. Changing a drinking water standard or adding a new substance to the list of contaminants regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency is time-consuming.…
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Kingman is finding ways to reuse treated water
The City of Kingman’s water treatment facilities already reuse solid waste for compost and are looking for a way to recycle the liquid waste, too. Water is a dwindling resource for the ever-exploding desert population, and it’s time to find a way to make the best of what we have. The same system that separates…
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Sewage pipe from Mexico ruptures, contaminating Arizona water
Gov. Doug Ducey declares state of emergency after E. coli found in pipes along border RIO RICO — A wash in Southern Arizona where an international sewage pipeline has spilled untreated wastewater has tested positive for excessive levels of E. coli, officials said Thursday. The public should stay out of the Nogales Wash and Santa…
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How Much Wastewater Is Used on Farms?
The use of wastewater on farmland is at least 50% more prevalent than previously thought, according to a new study. Published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, the report provides the first quantified analysis of the extent to which farmland is fed by wastewater (both treated and untreated). The results show that there are 35.9…
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A global, spatially-explicit assessment of irrigated croplands influenced by urban wastewater flows
1. Introduction Despite significant investments in wastewater treatment infrastructure, levels of treatment in rapidly urbanizing, low-income urban areas are not keeping pace with population growth [1, 2]. Globally, less than 10% of collected wastewater receives any form of treatment [3 ,4]. Concomitantly, agriculture is the largest water user in most countries, representing 70% of total…