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Waste Water Engineering: Restoring Life Saving Resource Through Treatment

Shikha Saxena
3 min readMar 16, 2022

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Purification of Waste Water to make it reusable for sustainable growth

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Waste Water Engineering: Restoring life saving resource through treatment play an important role in purification of waste water and making it reusable again even up to the level of drinking water. All the processes and chemical procedures used to make the waste water reusable, grouped under Waste Water Engineering umbrella.

What is waste water?

Residual water after the various usage is called as waste water and it is generated by use of fresh water in variety of applications as in homes, sewage, industries as leather, textile, food processing and so on.

The water that is left after the various kind of usage is known as waste water when it is no longer be used as fresh water. Waste Water is classified in three sections based on their place of generation, as:

  1. Domestic waste water: It is generated after the home usage as from kitchen, bathrooms, shower, bathtubs, toilets, sinks, washing machines, dishwaters, gardening, cleaning and so on.
  2. Sewage waste water: Generated from human activities and rainwater runoff from streets and roads.
  3. Industrial waste water: Waste water coming from…

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Shikha Saxena
Shikha Saxena

Written by Shikha Saxena

A Technical Writer, an artist and blogger by choice. Passionate about reading , writing and editing, NY.http://www.shikhasaxena.com and https://www.dnabox.co/

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