Researchers have developed an innovative photocatalytic technology which can produce H2O2 from water and air under sunlight…
Wastewater, including sewage, must be treated to remove chemical pollutants prior to its release into the environment…
As an alternative water resource, stormwater has a great potential to be reused for various purposes, including for the augmentation of drinking water supplies, but the reason stormwater run-off has not been widely used is because it contains unknown and variable amounts of chemical contaminants and microscopic organisms, some of which can cause illness and disease…
N-nitrosodiumdimethylamine (NDMA) in drinking water is one of many factors – such as a persons’ genes – that cause cancer…
Recycled stormwater has a range of possible uses that have different levels and types of human exposure…
Cryptosporidium is a waterborne microscopic parasite with different forms at various stages of its lifecycle…
Micropollutants, mixtures and transformation products in recycled water: How much do we really know?
Recycled water usually contains extremely low levels of many different chemicals…
Wastewater recycling uses reverse osmosis (RO) membranes to produce freshwater but this process also generates a waste stream – the reverse osmosis concentrate (ROC) – which contains almost all the contaminants present in the original wastewater…
The steam produced by boiling a kettle of salty water can be collected, condensed and drunk…
The Australian water industry uses a variety of membrane processes to remove unwanted pathogens or compounds, such as salt, from source waters…