Different Wastewater Treatment Plants Analysis Responding to Water Pollution

Different Wastewater Treatment Plants Analysis Responding to Water Pollution

Abstract

recently, sewage, industrial drainage and other form of wastewater are simply dumped into nearby waterways which harm natural ecosystem, threaten human health and contaminate surface water. As this big issue becomes worse, different groups of people states their point of views. However, these viewpoints cannot come to an excellent solution to wastewater treatment. This pater provides three different types of wastewater treatment plants Municipal sewage treatment plant, Industrial wastewater treatment plant and an innovating method. Nevertheless, these three treatment plants cannot still lead the whole wastewater treatment system to reach an ideal status. Wastewater treatment is still an immature now but promising industry in the further.

Key word wastewater pollution wastewater treatment

Introduction of wastewater pollution and problem

In this day and age, with the rapid advancement of industrialization that brings us a tremendous convenience and enjoyment to our life, wastewater emerges as following. Until recently, sewage, industrial drainage and other form of wastewater simply flowed into nearby waterways which catastrophically influence ecosystem, threaten human body and pollute the surface water, the source of drinking water and irrigation water for vast fields of the world.

Industrial drainage pollution

According to the article, “Cleansing the Air at the Expense of Waterways” by Charles Duhigg(2009), five states, including New York and New Jersey, complained that the plant’s owner, Allegheny Energy for the air pollution caused respiratory diseases and acid rain. Though Allegheny Energy has invest an enormous amount of money to install the scrubber so as to limit the plant’s air emission, the cleaner air has become at a cost because the company has dumped ten thousands of gallons of industrial drainage containing harmful chemical substance into Monongahela...