Sewage

Sewage (or domestic sewage, domestic wastewater, municipal wastewater) is a type of wastewater that is produced by a community of people. It is typically transported through a sewer system.[1]: 175 Sewage consists of wastewater discharged from residences and from commercial, institutional and public facilities that exist in the locality.[2]: 10 Sub-types of sewage are greywater (from sinks, bathtubs, showers, dishwashers, and clothes washers) and blackwater (the water used to flush toilets, combined with the human waste that it flushes away). Sewage also contains soaps and detergents. Food waste may be present from dishwashing, and food quantities may be increased where garbage disposal units are used. In regions where toilet paper is used rather than bidets, that paper is also added to the sewage. Sewage contains macro-pollutants and micro-pollutants, and may also incorporate some municipal solid waste and pollutants from industrial wastewater.

Sewage usually travels from a building's plumbing either into a sewer, which will carry it elsewhere, or into an onsite sewage facility. Collection of sewage from several households together usually takes places in either sanitary sewers or combined sewers. The former is designed to exclude stormwater flows whereas the latter is designed to also take stormwater. The production of sewage generally corresponds to the water consumption. A range of factors influence water consumption and hence the sewage flowrates per person. These include: Water availability (the opposite of water scarcity), water supply options, climate (warmer climates may lead to greater water consumption), community size, economic level of the community, level of industrialization, metering of household consumption, water cost and water pressure.[2]: 20

The main parameters in sewage that are measured to assess the sewage strength or quality as well as treatment options include: solids, indicators of organic matter, nitrogen, phosphorus, and indicators of fecal contamination.[2]: 33 These can be considered to be the main macro-pollutants in sewage. Sewage contains pathogens which stem from fecal matter. The following four types of pathogens are found in sewage: pathogenic bacteria, viruses, protozoa (in the form of cysts or oocysts) and helminths (in the form of eggs).[3][4] In order to quantify the organic matter, indirect methods are commonly used: mainly the Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) and the Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD).[2]: 36

Management of sewage includes collection and transport for release into the environment, after a treatment level that is compatible with the local requirements for discharge into water bodies, onto soil or for reuse applications.[2]: 156 Disposal options include dilution (self-purification of water bodies, making use of their assimilative capacity if possible), marine outfalls, land disposal and sewage farms. All disposal options may run risks of causing water pollution.

## Contents

* 1 Terminology
* 1.1 Sewage and wastewater
* 1.2 Blackwater
* 1.3 Greywater
* 2 Overall appearance
* 3 Pollutants
* 3.1 Organic matter
* 3.2 Nutrients
* 3.3 Pathogens
* 3.4 Solid waste
* 3.5 Micro-pollutants
* 4 Typical sewage composition
* 4.1 Factors that determine composition
* 4.2 Concentrations and loads
* 5 Flowrates
* 6 Analytical methods
* 6.1 General quality indicators
* 6.2 Specific organisms and substances
* 7 Collection
* 7.1 Sanitary sewer
* 7.2 Combined sewer
* 8 Dilution in the sewer
* 8.1 Infiltration of groundwater into the sewerage system
* 8.2 Stormwater
* 8.3 Industrial wastewater
* 9 Disposal and dilution
* 9.1 Assimilative capacity of receiving water bodies or land
* 9.2 Other disposal methods
* 9.2.1 Marine outfall
* 9.3 Global situation
* 10 Treatment
* 11 Reuse and reclamation
* 11.1 Sewage farm
* 12 Regulations
* 13 See also
* 14 References
* 15 External links

## Terminology

### Sewage and wastewater

Sewage (or domestic wastewater) consists of wastewater discharged from residences and from commercial, institutional and public facilities that exist in the locality.[2]: 10 Sewage is a mixture of water (from the community's water supply), human excreta (feces and urine), used water from bathrooms, food preparation wastes, laundry wastewater, and other waste products of normal living.

Sewage from municipalities contains wastewater from commercial activities and institutions, e.g. wastewater discharged from restaurants, laundries, hospitals, schools, prisons, offices, stores and establishments serving the local area of larger communities.[2]: 21

Sewage can be distinguished into "untreated sewage" (also called "raw sewage") and "treated sewage" (also called "effluent" from a sewage treatment plant).

The term "sewage" is nowadays often used interchangeably with "wastewater" – implying "municipal wastewater" – in many textbooks, policy documents and the literature.[2][5][6] To be precise, wastewater is a broader term, because it refers to any water after it has been used in a variety of applications.[5]: 1 Thus it may also refer to "industrial wastewater", agricultural wastewater and other flows that are not related to household activities.

### Blackwater

This section is an excerpt from blackwater (waste)[ edit ]

### Greywater

This section is an excerpt from greywater[ edit ]

Pumping station lifting sewage to the treatment plant in Bujumbura, Burundi Greywater (a component of sewage) in a settling tank

## Overall appearance

The overall appearance of sewage is as follows:[2]: 30 The temperature tends to be slightly higher than in drinking water but is more stable than the ambient temperature. The color of fresh sewage is slightly grey, whereas older sewage (also called "septic sewage") is dark grey or black. The odor of fresh sewage is "oily" and relatively unpleasant, whereas older sewage has an unpleasant foul odor due to hydrogen sulfide gas and other decomposition by-products.[7]: 9–38 Sewage can have high turbidity from suspended solids.

The pH value of sewage is usually near neutral, and can be in the range of 6.7–8.0.[2]: 57

## Pollutants

Sewage consists primarily of water and usually contains less than one part of solid matter per thousand parts of water. In other words, one can say that sewage is composed of around 99.9% pure water, and the remaining 0.1% are solids, which can be in the form of either dissolved solids or suspended solids.[2]: 28 The thousand-to-one ratio is an order of magnitude estimate rather than an exact percentage because, aside from variation caused by dilution, solids may be defined differently depending upon the mechanism used to separate those solids from the liquid fraction. Sludges of settleable solids removed by settling or suspended solids removed by filtration may contain significant amounts of entrained water, while dried solid material remaining after evaporation eliminates most of that water but includes dissolved minerals not captured by filtration or gravitational separation.[8] The suspended and dissolved solids include organic and inorganic matter plus microorganisms.[2]: 28

About one-third of this solid matter is suspended by turbulence, while the remainder is dissolved or colloidal. For the situation in the United States in the 1950s it was estimated that the waste contained in domestic sewage is about half organic and half inorganic.[7]: 9–38

### Organic matter

The organic matter in sewage can be classified in terms of form and size: Suspended (particulate) or dissolved (soluble). Secondly, it can be classified in terms of biodegradability: either inert or biodegradable.[2]: 35 The organic matter in sewage consists of protein compounds (about 40%), carbohydrates (about 25–50%), oils and grease (about 10%) and urea, surfactants, phenols, pesticides and others (lower quantity).[2]: 35 In order to quantify the organic matter content, it is common to use "indirect methods" which are based on the consumption of oxygen to oxidize the organic matter: mainly the Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) and the Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD).[2]: 36 These indirect methods are associated with the major impact of the discharge of organic matter into water bodies: the organic matter will be food for microorganisms, whose population will grow, and lead to the consumption of oxygen, which may then affect aquatic living organisms.

The mass load of organic content is calculated as the sewage flowrate multiplied with the concentration of the organic matter in the sewage.[2]: 55

Typical values for physical–chemical characteristics of raw sewage is provided further down below.

### Nutrients

Apart from organic matter, sewage also contains nutrients. The major nutrients of interest are nitrogen and phosphorus. If sewage is discharged untreated, its nitrogen and phosphorus content can lead to pollution of lakes and reservoirs via a process called eutrophication.[2]: 77

In raw sewage, nitrogen exists in the two forms of organic nitrogen or ammonia. The ammonia stems from the urea in urine. Urea is rapidly hydrolyzed and therefore not usually found in raw sewage.[2]: 43

Total phosphorus is mostly present in sewage in the form of phosphates.They are either inorganic (polyphosphates and orthophosphates) and their main source is from detergents and other household chemical products. The other form is organic phosphorus, where the source is organic compounds to which the organic phosphorus is bound.[2]: 45

### Pathogens

Human feces in sewage may contain pathogens capable of transmitting diseases.[7]: 9–38 The following four types of pathogens are found in sewage:[3][4]

* Bacteria like Salmonella, Shigella, Campylobacter, or Vibrio cholerae;
* Viruses like hepatitis A, rotavirus, coronavirus,[9] enteroviruses;
* Protozoa like Entamoeba histolytica, Giardia lamblia, Cryptosporidium parvum; and
* Helminths and their eggs including Ascaris (roundworm), Ancylostoma (hookworm), and Trichuris (whipworm)

In most practical cases, pathogenic organisms are not directly investigated in laboratory analyses. An easier way to assess the presence of fecal contamination is by assessing the most probable numbers of fecal coliforms (called thermotolerant coliforms), especially Escherichia coli. Escherichia coli are intestinal bacteria excreted by all warm blooded animals, including human beings, and thus tracking their presence in sewage is easy, because of their substantially high concentrations (around 10 to 100 million per 100 mL).[2]: 52

### Solid waste

Screening of the sewage with bar screens at a sewage treatment plant to remove larger objects in Norton, Zimbabwe Screening of sewage at a sewage treatment plant in Bujumbura, Burundi

The ability of a flush toilet to make things "disappear" is soon recognized by young children who may experiment with virtually anything they can carry to the toilet.[10] Adults may be tempted to dispose of toilet paper, wet wipes, diapers, sanitary napkins, tampons, tampon applicators, condoms, and expired medications, even at the risk of causing blockages. The privacy of a toilet offers a clandestine means of removing embarrassing evidence by flushing such things as drug paraphernalia, pregnancy test kits, combined oral contraceptive pill dispensers, and the packaging for those devices. There may be reluctance to retrieve items like children's toys or toothbrushes which accidentally fall into toilets, and items of clothing may be found in sewage from prisons or other locations where occupants may be careless.[11] Trash and garbage in streets may be carried to combined sewers by stormwater runoff.

### Micro-pollutants

Sewage contains environmental persistent pharmaceutical pollutants. Trihalomethanes can also be present as a result of past disinfection. Sewage may contain microplastics such as polyethylene and polypropylene beads, or polyester and polyamide fragments[12] from synthetic clothing and bedding fabrics abraded by wear and laundering, or from plastic packaging and plastic-coated paper products disintegrated by lift station pumps. Pharmaceuticals, endocrine disrupting compounds, and hormones[13][14][15] may be excreted in urine or feces if not catabolized within the human body.

Some residential users tend to pour unwanted liquids like used cooking oil,[16]: 228 lubricants,[16]: 228 adhesives, paint, solvents, detergents,[16]: 228 and disinfectants into their sewer connections. This behavior can result in problems for the treatment plant operation and is thus discouraged.

## Typical sewage composition

### Factors that determine composition

The composition of sewage varies with climate, social and economic situation and population habits.[2]: 28 In regions where water use is low, the strength of the sewage (or pollutant concentrations) is much higher than that in the United States where water use per person is high.[5]: 183 Household income and diet also plays a role: For example, for the case of Brazil, it has been found that the higher the household income, the higher is the BOD load per person and the lower is the BOD concentration.[2]: 57

### Concentrations and loads

Typical values for physical–chemical characteristics of raw sewage in developing countries have been published as follows: 180 g/person/d for total solids (or 1100 mg/L when expressed as a concentration), 50 g/person/d for BOD (300 mg/L), 100 g/person/d for COD (600 mg/L), 8 g/person/d for total nitrogen (45 mg/L), 4.5 g/person/d for ammonia-N (25 mg/L) and 1.0 g/person/d for total phosphorus (7 mg/L).[2]: 57 The typical ranges for these values are: 120–220 g/person/d for total solids (or 700–1350 mg/L when expressed as a concentration), 40–60 g/person/d for BOD (250–400 mg/L), 80–120 g/person/d for COD (450–800 mg/L), 6–10 g/person/d for total nitrogen (35–60 mg/L), 3.5–6 g/person/d for ammonia-N (20–35 mg/L) and 0.7–2.5 g/person/d for total phosphorus (4–15 mg/L).[2]: 57

For high income countries, the "per person organic matter load" has been found to be approximately 60 gram of BOD per person per day.[6] This is called the population equivalent (PE) and is also used as a comparison parameter to express the strength of industrial wastewater compared to sewage.

Values for households in the United States have been published as follows, whereby the estimates are based on the assumption that 25% of the homes have kitchen waste-food grinders (sewage from such households contain more waste): 95 g/person/d for total suspended solids (503 mg/L concentration), 85 g/person/d for BOD (450 mg/L), 198 g/person/d for COD (1050 mg/L), 13.3 g/person/d for the sum of organic nitrogen and ammonia nitrogen (70.4 mg/L), 7.8 g/person/d for ammonia-N (41.2 mg/L) and 3.28 g/person/d for total phosphorus (17.3 mg/L). The concentration values given here are based on a flowrate of 190 L per person per day.[5]: 183

A United States source published in 1972 estimated that the daily dry weight of solid wastes per capita in sewage is estimated as 20.5 g (0.72 oz) in feces, 43.3 g (1.53 oz) of dissolved solids in urine, 20 g (0.71 oz) of toilet paper, 86.5 g (3.05 oz) of greywater solids, 30 g (1.1 oz) of food solids (if garbage disposal units are used), and varying amounts of dissolved minerals depending upon salinity of local water supplies, volume of water use per capita, and extent of water softener use.[16]: 234

Sewage contains urine and feces. The mass of feces varies with dietary fiber intake. An average person produces 128 grams of wet feces per day, or a median dry mass of 29 g/person/day.[17] The median urine generation rate is about 1.42 L/person/day, as was determined by a global literature review.[17]

## Flowrates

The volume of domestic sewage produced per person (or "per capita", abbreviated as "cap") varies with the water consumption in the respective locality.[2]: 11 A range of factors influence water consumption and hence the sewage flowrates per person. These include: Water availability (the opposite of water scarcity), water supply options, climate (warmer climates may lead to greater water consumption), community size, economic level of the community, level of industrialization, metering of household consumption, water cost and water pressure.[2]: 20

The production of sewage generally corresponds to the water consumption. However water used for landscape irrigation will not enter the sewer system, while groundwater and stormwater may enter the sewer system in addition to sewage.[2]: 22 There are usually two peak flowrates of sewage arriving at a treatment plant per day: One peak is at the beginning of the morning and another peak is at the beginning of the evening.[2]: 24

With regards to water consumption, a design figure that can be regarded as "world average" is 35–90 l (9.2–23.8 US gal) per person per day (data from 1992).[5]: 163 The same publication listed the water consumption in China as 80 l (21 US gal) per person per day, Africa as 15–35 l (4.0–9.2 US gal) per person per day, Eastern Mediterranean in Europe as 40–85 l (11–22 US gal) per person per day and Latin America and Caribbean as 70–190 l (18–50 US gal) per person per day.[5]: 163 Even inside a country, there may be large variations from one region to another due to the various factors that determine the water consumption as listed above.

A flowrate value of 200 l (53 US gal) of sewage per person per day is often used as an estimate in high income countries, and is used for example in the design of sewage treatment plants.[6]

For comparison, typical sewage flowrates from urban residential sources in the United States are estimated based on the number of people in the as follows:[5]: 156

* One person households: 365 l (96 US gal) per person per day,
* Two person households: 288 l (76 US gal) per person per day,
* Four person households: 200 l (53 US gal) per person per day,
* Six person households: 189 l (50 US gal) per person per day.

The overall range for these estimates are 189–365 l (50–96 US gal) per person per day.

## Analytical methods

### General quality indicators

This section is an excerpt from Wastewater quality indicators[ edit ]

Tests will determine the quality of this wastewater. Wastewater quality indicators are laboratory test methodologies to assess suitability of wastewater for disposal, treatment or reuse. The main parameters in sewage that are measured to assess the sewage strength or quality as well as treatment options include: solids, indicators of organic matter, nitrogen, phosphorus, indicators of fecal contamination.[2]: 33 Tests selected vary with the intended use or discharge location. Tests can measure physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of the wastewater. Physical characteristics include temperature and solids. Chemical characteristics include pH value, dissolved oxygen concentrations, biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and chemical oxygen demand (COD), nitrogen, phosphorus, chlorine. Biological characteristics are determined with bioassays and aquatic toxicology tests.

### Specific organisms and substances

Sewage can be monitored for both disease-causing and benign organisms with a variety of techniques. Traditional techniques involve filtering, staining, and examining samples under a microscope. Much more sensitive and specific testing can be accomplished with DNA sequencing, such as when looking for rare organisms, attempting eradication, testing specifically for drug-resistant strains, or discovering new species.[18][19][20] Sequencing DNA from an environmental sample is known as metagenomics.

Sewage has also been analyzed to determine relative rates of use of prescription and illegal drugs among municipal populations.[21] General socioeconomic demographics may be inferred as well.[22]

## Collection

Lack of maintenance causing sewage to overflow from a manhole into the street of an informal settlement near Cape Town, South Africa

Sewage is commonly collected and transported in gravity sewers, either in a sanitary sewer or in a combined sewer. The latter also conveys urban runoff (stormwater) which means the sewage gets diluted during rain events.[2]: 9

### Sanitary sewer

This section is an excerpt from Sanitary sewer[ edit ]

### Combined sewer

This section is an excerpt from Combined sewer[ edit ]

## Dilution in the sewer

### Infiltration of groundwater into the sewerage system

Infiltration is groundwater entering sewer pipes through defective pipes, connections, joints or manholes.[2]: 26 [5]: 164 Contaminated or saline groundwater may introduce additional pollutants to the sewage. The amount of such infiltrated water depends on several parameters, such as the length of the collection network, pipeline diameters, drainage area, soil type, water table depth, topography and number of connections per unit area.[2]: 26 Infiltration is increased by poor construction procedures, and tends to increase with the age of the sewer. The amount of infiltration varies with the depth of the sewer in comparison to the local groundwater table.[7]: 9–1, 9–9 Older sewer systems that are in need of rehabilitation may also exfiltrate sewage into groundwater from the leaking sewer joints and service connections.[5]: 167 This can lead to groundwater pollution.[23]

### Stormwater

Combined sewers are designed to transport sewage and stormwater together. This means that sewage becomes diluted during rain events. There are other types of inflow that also dilute sewage, e.g. "water discharged from cellar and foundation drains, cooling-water discharges, and any direct stormwater runoff connections to the sanitary collection system".[5]: 163 The "direct inflows" can result in peak sewage flowrates similar to combined sewers during wet weather events.[5]: 165

### Industrial wastewater

Main article: Earth:Industrial wastewater treatment

Sewage from communities with industrial facilities may include some industrial wastewater, generated by industrial processes such as the production or manufacture of goods. Volumes of industrial wastewater vary widely with the type of industry.[2]: 27 Industrial wastewater may contain very different pollutants at much higher concentrations than what is typically found in sewage.[5]: 188 Pollutants may be toxic or non-biodegradable waste including pharmaceuticals,[24] biocides, heavy metals, radionuclides, or thermal pollution.

An industry may treat its wastewater and discharge it into the environment (or even use the treated wastewater for specific applications), or, in case it is located in the urban area, it may discharge the wastewater into the public sewerage system. In the latter case, industrial wastewater may receive pre-treatment at the factories to reduce the pollutant load.[2]: 27 Mixing industrial wastewater with sewage does nothing to reduce the mass of pollutants to be treated, but the volume of sewage lowers the concentration of pollutants unique to industrial wastewater, and the volume of industrial wastewater lowers the concentration of pollutants unique to sewage.

## Disposal and dilution

Ocean outfall pipes in Cape May, New Jersey, United States – pipes exposed after the sand was removed by severe storm

### Assimilative capacity of receiving water bodies or land

When wastewater is discharged into a water body (river, lakes, sea) or land, its relative impact will depend on the assimilative capacity of the water body or ecosystem.[2]: 78 Water bodies have a self-purification capacity, so that the concentration of a pollutant may decrease along the distance from the discharge point. Furthermore, water bodies provide a dilution to the pollutants concentrations discharged, although it does not decrease their mass. In principle, the higher the dilution capacity (ratio of volume or flow of the receiving water and volume or flow of sewage discharged), the lower will be the concentration of pollutants in the receiving water, and probably the lower will be the negative impacts. But if the water body already arrives very polluted at the point of discharge, the dilution will be of limited value.[25]

In several cases, a community may partially treat its sewage, and still count on the assimilative capacity of the water body. However, this needs to be analyzed very carefully, taking into account the quality of the water in the receiving body before it receives the discharge of sewage, the resulting water quality after the discharge and the impact on the intended water uses after discharge. There are also specific legal requirements in each country. Different countries have different regulations regarding the specifications of the quality of the sewage being discharged and the quality to be maintained in the receiving water body.[2]: 152 The combination of treatment and disposal must comply with existing local regulations.

The assimilative capacity depends – among several factors – on the ability of the receiving water to sustain dissolved oxygen concentrations necessary to support organisms catabolizing organic waste.[16]: 9, 673 For example, fish may die if dissolved oxygen levels are depressed below 5 mg/L.[26]: 573

Application of sewage to land can be considered as a form of final disposal or of treatment, or both.[2]: 189 Land disposal alternatives require consideration of land availability, groundwater quality, and possible soil deterioration.[27]

### Other disposal methods

Sewage may be discharged to an evaporation or infiltration basin.[7]: 9–41 Groundwater recharge is used to reduce saltwater intrusion, or replenish aquifers used for agricultural irrigation. Treatment is usually required to sustain percolation capacity of infiltration basins, and more extensive treatment may be required for aquifers used as drinking water supplies.[16]: 700–703

#### Marine outfall

This section is an excerpt from marine outfall[ edit ]

### Global situation

This section is an excerpt from Sewage treatment#Global situation[ edit ]

## Treatment

Main article: Earth:Sewage treatment

Sewage treatment is beneficial in reducing environmental pollution. Bar screens can remove large solid debris from sewage,[16]: 274–275 and primary treatment can remove floating and settleable matter.[16]: 446 Primary treated sewage usually contains less than half of the original solids content and approximately two-thirds of the BOD in the form of colloids and dissolved organic compounds.[28] Secondary treatment can reduce the BOD of organic waste in undiluted sewage,[26]: 575 but is less effective for dilute sewage.[29] Water disinfection may be attempted to kill pathogens prior to disposal, and is increasingly effective after more elements of the foregoing treatment sequence have been completed.[16]: 359 Sewage is not a waste matter and the organic matter, during the sewage treatment process, can be recovered in the form of insects which can be used as ingredient in fish/poultry meal.[30]

## Reuse and reclamation

Main article: Earth:Reclaimed water

An alternative to discharge into the environment is to reuse the sewage in a productive way (for agricultural, urban or industrial uses), in compliance with local regulations and requirements for each specific reuse application. Public health risks of sewage reuse in agriculture can be minimized by following a "multiple barrier approach" according to guidelines by the World Health Organization.[31]

There is also the possibility of resource recovery which could make agriculture more sustainable by using carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, water and energy recovered from sewage.[32][4]

### Sewage farm

This section is an excerpt from sewage farm[ edit ]

## Regulations

Sewage management includes collection and transport for release into the environment after a treatment level that is compatible with the local requirements for discharge into water bodies, onto soil, or for reuse applications.[2]: 156  In most countries, uncontrolled discharges of wastewater to the environment are not permitted under law, and strict water quality requirements are to be met. For requirements in the United States, see Clean Water Act.

Sewage management regulations are often part of a country's broader sanitation policies. These may also include the management of human excreta (from non-sewered collection systems), solid waste and stormwater.

## See also

* Fecal sludge management
* History of water supply and sanitation
* Reuse of human excreta
* Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive
* Wastewater-based epidemiology

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## External links

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Wastewater

Sources|

* Acid mine drainage
* Ballast water
* Bathroom
* Blackwater (coal)
* Blackwater (waste)
* Boiler blowdown
* Brine
* Combined sewer
* Cooling tower
* Cooling water
* Fecal sludge
* Greywater
* Infiltration/Inflow
* Industrial effluent
* Ion exchange
* Leachate
* Manure
* Papermaking
* Produced water
* Return flow
* Reverse osmosis
* Sanitary sewer
* Septage
* Sewage
* Sewage sludge
* Toilet
* Urban runoff

Quality indicators|

* Adsorbable organic halides
* Biochemical oxygen demand
* Chemical oxygen demand
* Coliform index
* Oxygen saturation
* Heavy metals
* pH
* Salinity
* Temperature
* Total dissolved solids
* Total suspended solids
* Turbidity

Treatment options|

* Activated sludge
* Aerated lagoon
* Agricultural wastewater treatment
* API oil–water separator
* Carbon filtering
* Chlorination
* Clarifier
* Constructed wetland
* Decentralized wastewater system
* Extended aeration
* Facultative lagoon
* Fecal sludge management
* Filtration
* Imhoff tank
* Industrial wastewater treatment
* Ion exchange
* Membrane bioreactor
* Reverse osmosis
* Rotating biological contactor
* Secondary treatment
* Sedimentation
* Septic tank
* Settling basin
* Sewage sludge treatment
* Sewage treatment
* Sewer mining
* Stabilization pond
* Trickling filter
* Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation
* UASB
* Vermifilter
* Wastewater treatment plant

Disposal options|

* Combined sewer
* Evaporation pond
* Groundwater recharge
* Infiltration basin
* Injection well
* Irrigation
* Marine dumping
* Marine outfall
* Reclaimed water
* Sanitary sewer
* Septic drain field
* Sewage farm
* Storm drain
* Surface runoff
* Vacuum sewer

* Category: Sewerage

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Plumbing

Fundamental
concepts|

* Air gap (plumbing)
* Backflow
* Compatibility (chemical)
* Corrosion
* Drain (plumbing)
* Drinking water
* Fuel gas
* Friction loss
* Grade (slope)
* Greywater
* Heat trap
* Hydrostatic loop
* Leak
* Neutral axis
* Onsite sewage facility
* Pressure
* Sanitary sewer
* Sewer gas
* Sewage
* Sewerage
* Siphon
* Storm sewer
* Stormwater
* Surface tension
* Tap water
* Thermal expansion
* Thermal insulation
* Thermosiphon
* Trap (plumbing)
* Venturi effect
* Wastewater
* Water hammer
* Water supply network
* Water table
* Well

Technology|

* Brazing
* British Standard Pipe (BSP)
* Cast iron pipe
* Chemical drain cleaners
* Compression fitting
* Copper tubing
* Crimp (joining)
* Drain-waste-vent system
* Ductile iron pipe
* Flare fitting
* Garden Hose Thread (GHT)
* Gasket
* Hydronics
* Leak detection
* National pipe thread (NPT)
* Nominal Pipe Size (NPS)
* O-ring
* Oakum
* Pipe (fluid conveyance)
* Pipe dope
* Pipe support
* Plastic pipework
* Push-to-pull compression fittings
* Putty
* Sealant
* Sewage pumping
* Soldering
* Solvent welding
* Swaging
* Thread seal tape
* Threaded pipe
* Tube bending
* Water heat recycling

Components|

* Atmospheric vacuum breaker
* Automatic bleeding valve
* Automatic faucet
* Backflow prevention device
* Ball valve
* Bleed screw
* Booster pump
* Butterfly valve
* Check valve
* Chemigation valve
* Chopper pump
* Circulator pump
* Cistern
* Closet flange
* Concentric reducer
* Condensate pump
* Coupling (piping)
* Diaphragm valve
* Dielectric union
* Double check valve
* Eccentric reducer
* Expansion tank
* Faucet aerator
* Float switch
* Float valve
* Floor drain
* Flow limiter
* Flushing trough
* Flushometer
* Gate valve
* Globe valve
* Grease trap
* Grinder pump
* Hose coupling
* Manifold
* Needle valve
* Nipple (plumbing)
* Pinch valve
* Piping and plumbing fitting
* Plug (sanitation)
* Pressure regulator
* Pressure vacuum breaker
* Pressure-balanced valve
* Pump
* Radiator (heating)
* Reduced pressure zone device
* Reducer
* Relief valve
* Riser clamp
* Rooftop water tower
* Safety valve
* sewage pumping
* Street elbow
* Submersible pump
* Tap (valve)
* Thermostatic mixing valve
* Trench drain
* Vacuum breaker
* Vacuum ejector
* Valve
* Water tank
* Zone valve

Plumbing fixtures|

* Accessible bathtub
* Bathtub
* Bidet
* Dehumidifier
* Dishwasher
* Drinking fountain
* Electric water boiler
* Evaporative cooler
* Flush toilet
* Garbage disposal unit
* Hot water storage tank
* Humidifier
* Icemaker
* Instant hot water dispenser
* Laundry tub
* Shower
* water recycling shower
* Sink
* Storage water heater
* Sump pump
* Tankless water heating
* Urinal
* Washing machine
* Washlet
* Water dispenser
* Water filter
* Water heating
* Water softening

Specialized tools|

* Basin wrench
* Blowtorch
* Borescope
* Core drill
* Drain cleaner
* Driving cap
* Flare-nut wrench
* Pipecutter
* Pipe wrench
* Plumber's snake
* Plumber wrench
* Plunger
* Strap wrench
* Tap and die

Measurement
and control|

* Control valve
* Flow sensor
* Pressure sensor
* Water detector
* Water metering

Professions,
trades,
and services|

* Hydronic balancing
* Hydrostatic testing
* Leak detection
* Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing
* Pipe marking
* Pipefitter
* Pipelayer
* Plumber

Industry
organizations
and standards|

* International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials (IAPMO)
* NSF International
* Plumbing & Drainage Institute (PDI)
* Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC)
* World Plumbing Council (WPC)

Health and safety|

* Plumbing code
* Scalding
* Waterborne disease

See also|

* Fire sprinkler system
* Piping
* Template:HVAC
* Template:Public health
* Template:Sewerage
* Template:Human waste elimination
* Template:Wastewater

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Biosolids, waste, and waste management

Major types|

* Agricultural wastewater
* Biodegradable waste
* Biomedical waste
* Brown waste
* Chemical waste
* Construction waste
* Demolition waste
* Electronic waste
* by country
* Food waste
* Green waste
* Hazardous waste
* Heat waste
* Industrial waste
* Litter
* Marine debris
* Mining waste
* Municipal solid waste
* Open defecation
* Packaging waste
* Post-consumer waste
* Radioactive waste
* Scrap metal
* Sewage
* Sharps waste
* Toxic waste
* Wastewater

Processes|

* Anaerobic digestion
* Biodegradation
* Composting
* Garden waste dumping
* Illegal dumping
* Incineration
* Landfill
* Landfill mining
* Mechanical biological treatment
* Mechanical sorting
* Open dump
* Photodegradation
* Recycling
* Resource recovery
* Sewage treatment
* Waste collection
* Waste picking
* Waste sorting
* Waste trade
* Waste treatment
* Waste-to-energy

Countries|

* Armenia
* Australia
* Bangladesh
* Brazil
* Hong Kong
* India
* Kazakhstan
* New Zealand
* Russia
* South Korea
* Switzerland
* Taiwan
* Thailand
* Turkey
* UK
* US

Agreements|

* Bamako Convention
* Basel Convention
* EU directives
* batteries
* framework
* incineration
* landfills
* RoHS
* vehicles
* waste water
* WEEE
* London Convention
* Oslo Convention
* OSPAR Convention

Other topics|

* Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future
* Cleaner production
* Downcycling
* Eco-industrial park
* Extended producer responsibility
* High-level radioactive waste management
* History of waste management
* Landfill fire
* Sewage regulation and administration
* Upcycling
* Waste hierarchy
* Waste legislation
* Waste minimisation
* Zero waste

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* Concepts
* Index
* Journals
* Lists
* Organizations

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Pollution

Air pollution|

* Acid rain
* Air quality index
* Atmospheric dispersion modeling
* Chlorofluorocarbon
* Indoor air quality
* Global dimming
* Global distillation
* Global warming
* Ozone depletion
* Atmospheric particulate matter
* Smog

Water pollution|

* Environmental impact of pharmaceuticals and personal care products
* Environmental impact of shipping
* Environmental monitoring
* Eutrophication
* Freshwater environmental quality parameters
* Groundwater pollution
* Hypoxia
* Marine debris
* Marine pollution
* Nutrient pollution
* Ocean acidification
* Oil spill
* Septic tank
* Surface runoff
* Thermal pollution
* Turbidity
* Urban runoff
* Wastewater
* Water quality
* Water stagnation
* Waterborne diseases

Soil contamination|

* Bioremediation
* Electrical resistance heating
* Herbicide
* Open defecation
* Pesticide
* Phytoremediation
* Soil Guideline Values (SGVs)

Radioactive contamination|

* Actinides in the environment
* Bioremediation of radioactive waste
* Environmental radioactivity
* Fission product
* Nuclear fallout
* Plutonium in the environment
* Radiation poisoning
* Radium in the environment
* Uranium in the environment

Other types of pollution|

* Land degradation
* Light pollution
* Pollution from nanomaterials
* Noise pollution
* Radio spectrum pollution
* Urban heat island
* Visual pollution

Pollution response|

* Cleaner production
* Industrial ecology
* Pollutant release and transfer register
* Polluter pays principle
* Pollution control
* Pollution prevention
* Waste minimization
* Zero waste

Inter-government treaties|

* Basel Convention
* CLRTAP
* Kyoto Protocol
* MARPOL Convention
* Montreal Protocol
* OSPAR
* Rotterdam Convention
* Stockholm Convention

Major organizations|

* Basel Action Network
* Central Pollution Control Board (India)
* DEFRA
* Environment Agency (England)
* Scottish Environment Protection Agency
* U.S. EPA
* European Environment Agency
* Greenpeace

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