Water Reuse in a Municipal Sports Center

Odorous compounds in municipal wastewater effluent and potable water reuse systems.

The presence of effluent-derived compounds with low odor thresholds can compromise the aesthetics of drinking water. The potent odorants 2,4,6-trichloroanisole and geosmin dominated the profile of odorous compounds in wastewater effluent with concentrations up to 2 orders of magnitude above their threshold values. Additional odorous compounds (e.g., vanillin, methylnaphthalenes, 2-pyrrolidone) ...

Cryptosporidium outbreak in a sports center.

Development of a Multipurpose Water Reuse and Power Production System

In today’s world renewable energy is highly demanding because of increasing oil and fuelprices, desire and necessity to avert irreversible climate damage and also the unreliability of the non -renewablesources. In renewable energy, water is an important source. Previously water is used only for survivalof human being as much as food but no attentionhas been givenen to economical use and conserv...

Water Reuse

minimizing their wastes. The concept of such minimization, recycling, zero discharge (all aspects of the same reuse philosophy) is appealing and straightforward. The reality often is not: In some cases a highly organic wastewater, as from a paper mill or a food processing facility, has to be converted to a highpurity stream. As if this is not challenge enough, such treatment must be consistent,...

GA in Municipal Water Systems

EDITORIAL Editorial I hope you had a good start in 2007. GECCO surely had. With 577 submissions, GECCO-2007 has beaten the 2005 record of 550 submissions by 4.4%. And there are still many events for which the submission is still open: the 16 workshops (the deadline is March 23rd), the late-breaking papers track (the deadline is April 28th), and the human competitive, the " Humies " , awards (th...