Ecotechnologies for Wastewater Treatment - Impacting the Environment with Innovation in Wastewater Treatment

IWA Publishing

Ecotechnologies for Wastewater Treatment - Impacting the Environment with Innovation in Wastewater TreatmentAuthor(s): Manuela Antonelli, Andrea Turolla, Elena Ficara, Juan M. Lema, Roberto Canziani, Francesca Malpei\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: IWA Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: IWA Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781789063684, 978-1789063684\nSynopsis\nAcknowledging that resource efficiency as well as ecosystem protection are crucial goals to tackle has led to a deep rethinking in the way wastewater has been dealt with up to the 20th century. Indeed, pollution reduction to harmless levels has been the main focus of conventional wastewater treatment plants which have deployed effective and reliable solutions to get rid of suspended and dissolved pollutants. Nowadays, those same wastewaters are looked at as a mine of valuable resources that are to be harvested from the sewage through efficient technologies operated within water and resource recovery facilities (formerly known as wastew.