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Domestic water use represents a growing proportion of global water use. Water use optimisation means resistance to chronic and short-term water…
Last updated 06 May 2019
Reusing water in industry has the potential to reduce the costs of water supply and wastewater treatment by industries and reduces pressure on water…
Last updated 06 May 2019
This section deals with software and hardware measures that are commonly applied for waste(water) treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa. Waste(water)…
Last updated 27 April 2018
Chlorination, which means adding active chlorine (sodium hypochlorite) to water, is the most common method used for disinfecting of drinking water.…
Last updated 18 May 2019
Water of a desired quality is often scarce, and has to be allocated to different uses such as human consumption, sanitation, the production of food,…
Last updated 30 June 2019
Water balance estimation is an important tool to assess the current status and trends in water resource availability in an area over a specific…
Last updated 14 June 2019
Water charges are a widely used economic instrument implied mainly by federal governments to better control water use and water pollution by imposing…
Last updated 05 May 2019