A Survey of Practices and Regulations for Reuse of Water by Groundwater Recharge
| Autor: | Ernest V. Clements, Stephen P. Shelton, Curtis J Schmidt |
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| Rok vydání: | 1978 |
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education.field_of_study
business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Population Sewage Septic tank General Chemistry Groundwater recharge Reuse Wastewater Depression-focused recharge Environmental science business Water resource management education Groundwater Water Science and Technology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal - American Water Works Association. 70:140-147 |
| ISSN: | 0003-150X |
| DOI: | 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1978.tb04131.x |
| Popis: | Most wastewater reuse is informal and goes largely unrecognized by the public and many professionals. Virtually every major surface water body in the United States contains domestic sewage effluent, industrial wastes, urban and agricultural runoff (Fig. 1). These waters are the drinking water supply for much of the nation's population. It is self-deception to fail to recognize this situation as de facto reuse of wastewater for potable purposes. A similar situation exists for groundwater resources (Fig. 2). Hundreds of municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants dispose of their effluents to the land. Thousands of wastewater lagoons percolate effluents into the ground. Millions of septic tank systems leach their wastewater into the ground. Most of these wastewaters travel through the soil and eventually reach groundwater aquifers. Thus, as with surface waters, informal groundwater recharge with wastewaters is occurring on a large scale. The present interest in formal, regulated wastewater reuse projects is simply bringing focus upon an informal practice which has existed "in the closet" for a long time. The question is not whether wastewater reuse is acceptable, but rather how best to regulate |
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