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Is sewage reused as drinking water?
All water we drink and produce as sewage is part of the water cycle. Water is taken from rivers and lakes and treated to drinking water standard. Wastewater then goes down the sewers to a wastewater treatment plant where it is treated to clean it and then put back into rivers........so you're not directly drinking sewage!
How can flooding contaminate the water supply?
Floodwaters allow sewage to mix with drinking water.
What can cause clean usable water to become toxic?
If your drinking water gets mixed with your sewage water...
How does water polluition work?
Sewage is a term for the waste of people and animals. Normally, sewage is sent off to a treatment plant, and kept entirely separate from drinking water. If sewage was to enter the water supply, it would make people extremely sick.
What did early Egyptian civilization use the Nile River for?
drinking water sewage crops soil
What is a halogen used in gaseous and liquid form for large scale disinfection of drinking water and sewage?
No
How can contamination of drinking water occur from sewage even in a covered drainage system?
i dont know can you say
What is human sewage?
Byproducts of human waste that's usually discarded and collected by the local water department to avoid possible contamination of drinking water. Normally, sewage waste is sent to an incinerator where is burned.
How much dirty water can you drink before you die?
It depends how dirty. Theres a piece of dust, or your drinking sewage.
What is composition of non potable water?
Could be anything. Chemicals, sewage, micro organism's, something you shouldn't drink.
How does making sure sewage does not get into your drinking water prevent bacteria and viruses being spread?
it stops people from catching diseseases that are body has got rid of. Also when we drink sewage water the pathogens get into are body and give people diseases
In the 1900s why was the Chicago river reversed?
To carry sewage and pollution away from the city's drinking water supply, Lake Michigan.
