Filtration: Then and Now
Last week we posted about the history of filtration in Water Treatment. The first recognized instance of filtering water was credited to Hippocrates roughly 2,500 years ago, with the introduction of more…
Summary of the Clean Water Act
The Clean Water Act (CWA) is the cornerstone of surface water quality protection in the United States. The basis of the CWA was enacted in 1948, and was called the Federal Water…
Wastewater Treatment-Secondary and Tertiary Treatment
In our last post on Wastewater Treatment, we covered Pretreatment and Primary Treatment. Today we'll finish off the treatment process with Secondary and Tertiary Treatment. Secondary treatment is designed to…