Waste water management and its reuse

Wastewater management encompasses a broad range of efforts that promote effective and responsible water use, treatment, and disposal and encourage the protection and restoration of our nation's watersheds. In India, where the disparity in demands and supply is extremely high, wastewater management can be revolutionary with its economic benefits and importance as a coping strategy for the poor. Wastewater treatment consists of applying known technology to improve or upgrade the quality of a wastewater. Usually wastewater treatment will involve collecting the wastewater in a central, segregated location (the Wastewater Treatment Plant) and subjecting the wastewater to various treatment processes. Various treatment processes are as follows: Mechanical Treatments: Screening Sedimentation Flotation Filtration Ultrafiltration, Microfiltration, Nanofiltration & Reverse Osmosis

Physical Treatments: Adsorption through solid absorbers Extraction with liquid extractants Flocculation / coagulation

Chemical Treatments: Precipitation Wet Oxidation Ozonolysis Ion exchange Chemisorptions

Thermal Treatments: Evaporation Distillation Steam-Stripping

Biological Treatments: Aerobic degradation Anaerobic degradation Microorganisms

Management of our global water resources is vital to creating sustainable water supplies for potable, agricultural, recreational and industrial use. Siemens Water Technologies has the largest portfolio of technologies and solutions for water reuse systems. For many years, the world enjoyed an abundance of high-quality, fresh water that was inexpensive to obtain, treat and transport. Now, many communities face water shortages, deteriorating water quality from seawater intrusion and greater demands due to population growth, tourism, recreational use, drought and industrial expansion. Water reuse in the paper industry

In the paper industry water can be recycled by means of membrane filtration and membrane bio reactors (MBR). Water reuse in the textile industry For water recycling in the textile industry membrane filtration is a preferable option compared to other wastewater treatment techniques.

Water reuse in the poultry industry By means of filtration and ozone disinfection, cooling water can be recycled Water reuse in the food and beverage industry Water recycling using UV-disinfection and membrane filtration in the food and beverage industry.