Introduction to Water pollutants, Sources and Wastewater treatment schemes

Review on Waste water treatment schemes

By: Sivakumaran Sivaramanan

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Water is an essential renewable resource, increasing population, deforestation, soil degradation and desertification, soil and water pollution and the effects of climatic change and consequences such as droughts, changes in weather pattern have ultimately increases the demand for fresh potable water, thus the need for reclamation of used water is being realized. Several countries successfully recycle the water up to the consumable standards. Though it varies depending on the treatment systems, limiting the uses, public acceptance, social and health related controversy is still an international issue. Increasing population and urbanization increases the need of sophisticated techniques to handle wastewater, in many areas contamination of harmful industrial or municipal wastewater into drinking waterways created severe threat to the society, or unsanitary waste water discharging practices have worsen the surrounding environment due to odour, providing sink for pathogens, breeding grounds for mosquitoes and other vectors. This book reviews kinds of waste water treatment systems and their roles in waste water treatment in terms of preliminary, primary, secondary and tertiary levels including the final polishing to meet the acceptable standards for reuse. Schematic diagrams and photographic examples are provided to give clear understanding on waste water treatment schemes.

Good overview, ruined by narration

The text provides a good high-level overview of wastewater management and treatment processes. unfortunately the AI narration is extremely difficult to follow with improper inflections and inability to differentiate between units and initialisms and words. I almost doubled the reading time of this book because of all the times I had to go back and re-listen to a section until it made sense.