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Waste water treatment
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What is the main focus of this video?
How
wastewater
is
treated
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What is potable water?
Water that is safe to drink
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What percentage of water is used for drinking?
A small percentage
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What are some uses of water besides drinking?
Personal
hygiene
, flushing
toilets
, washing clothes
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What does wastewater contain?
Organic molecules
and
harmful microorganisms
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Why must wastewater be treated before release?
To remove
harmful substances
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What is the first stage of wastewater treatment?
Sewage
is screened through a
mesh
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What happens to sewage after screening?
It settles in large
sedimentation tanks
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What is produced after sewage settles?
Liquid
effluent
and semi-solid
sludge
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What happens to the sludge?
It is digested by
anaerobic bacteria
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What do anaerobic bacteria produce?
Biogas
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How can biogas be used?
It can be burned for
electricity
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What must be done to the liquid effluent before discharge?
Reduce
organic molecules
and
microorganisms
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How is oxygen introduced to the liquid effluent?
By
bubbling
air through it
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What do aerobic bacteria do in the treatment process?
They
digest
organic
molecules
and
microorganisms
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Where can treated liquid effluent be discharged?
Into nearby
rivers
or the sea
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What is a common use of water in industry?
Making
paper
and
chemicals
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What must be removed from industrial wastewater?
Harmful chemicals
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What can treated sewage be used for in some parts of the world?
To produce
potable water
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Why is producing potable water from wastewater not common in the UK?
It requires many
purification
steps
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What is the easiest source of potable water?
Groundwater
from
aquifers
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What must be done to groundwater from aquifers before drinking?
It needs to be treated with
chlorine
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What can pollute aquifers?
Fertilizers
from farms
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What is required to produce potable water from salt water?
Desalination
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What is a drawback of desalination?
It requires a lot of
energy
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Where can students find more questions on wastewater treatment?
In the
vision workbook
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