Health Effects Associated with Wastewater Treatment, Reuse and Disposal

Health Effects Associated with Wastewater Treatment, Reuse, and Disposal.

A review of the literature published in 2014 on topics relating to public and environmental health risks associated with wastewater treatment, reuse, and disposal is presented. This review is divided into the following sections: wastewater management, microbial hazards, chemical hazards, wastewater reuse, wastewater treatment plants, wastewater disposal, and sludge and biosolids.

Wastewater Treatment and Reuse

Refinery wastewater treatment and reuse

0 A tremendous amount of material has been written about wastewater treatment and reuse in recent years. This is partly due to the constantly changing technology in the field. Controversy surrounding the promulgation of regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and subsequent revisions, have added to the confusion. The purpose of this article is to attempt to tie this mass of in...

Wastewater Treatment and Reuse for Irrigation

Psychological and social factors associated with wastewater reuse emotional discomfort

Wastewater reuse (WWR) technology has improved greatly in recent decades and may be an important solution to global water challenges. Nevertheless, several psychological and social barriers to widespread adoption still exist. Negative emotional reactions to WWR, known as the “yuck factor,” have been identified as central to public acceptance. The present study used a large, context-neutral, web...