Seven small wastewater treatment plants were chosen for evaluation. These WWTPs work on the principle of anaerobic pre-treatment and aerobic post-treatment and were made with the cooperation of Slovak Technical University with ASIO-SK s.r.o. Bytča and ASIO s.r.o. Brno. Wastewater treatment plants are made for 5-600 PE. When operated at suitable conditions, the results match the directive water ...

This paper describe the high-voltage pulsed discharge generated in water with different types of bubbling gases as well as no gas in a reactor with a point-mesh electrode configuration. The pulsed discharges are a promising technique in environmental remediation to treatment of wastewater. Acid orange 7organic dye solution was treated as a common wastewater sample to elucidate chemical efficien...

Despite high performance, municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) still discharge significant amounts of organic material and nitrogen and even microbes into the receiving water bodies, altering physico-chemical conditions and microbial functions. In this study, we examined how nitrified wastewater affects the microbiology of boreal lake sediments. Microbial community compositions were as...

Los Angeles County's submarine discharge of municipal wastewater off the Palos Verdes Peninsula is the single largest man-related source of trace metals to the marine ecosystem off southern California. The 1974 annual mass emission rates of chromium, copper, and zinc via this discharge were approximately 400, 300, and 850 metric tons, respectively (roughly ten times the corresponding inputs mea...

Municipal wastewater effluent has been proposed as one pathway for microplastics to enter the aquatic environment. Here we present a broad study of municipal wastewater treatment plant effluent as a pathway for microplastic pollution to enter receiving waters. A total of 90 samples were analyzed from 17 different facilities across the United States. Averaging all facilities and sampling dates, ...

The antibiotic resistance (AR) patterns of 462 Escherichia coli isolates from wastewater, surface waters, and oysters were determined. Rates of AR and multiple-AR among isolates from surface water sites adjacent to wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) discharge sites were significantly higher (P < 0.05) than those among other isolates, whereas the rate of AR among isolates from oysters exposed to ...

Organic pollution of rivers by wastewater discharge from human activities negatively impacts people and ecosystems. Without treatment, pollution control relies on a combination of natural degradation and dilution by natural runoff to reduce downstream effects. We quantify here for the first time the global sanitation crisis through its impact on organic river pollution from the threats of (1) i...