Where does the large volume of waste water needing treatment come from?

From urban lifestyles, such as homes and businesses, and from industrial processes.

Explain why waste water must be treated before it is released into the environment.

It contains harmful microbes and organic matter that would pollute rivers and harm the organisms living in them.

Explain why sewage is treated in several separate stages rather than one.

Each stage removes a different kind of material, working from large solids through to dissolved organic matter and microbes.

Suggest why a sewage works must handle a much greater volume of liquid after heavy rain.

Rainwater drains into the sewers, so the volume of waste water arriving at the works increases.

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Waste water treatment

3 things to know
Paper 2

Overview

Where waste water comes from and why it must be treated, what sewage and industrial waste need removed, screening, sedimentation into sludge and effluent, anaerobic and aerobic treatment, and comparing ground, salty and waste water as sources.

What you need to know

Answer each one before you reveal it.

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Key term

Which water source is easiest to make potable and why, what extra does sea water need, and rank ground, sea and waste water.

Key term

What must be removed from sewage and agricultural waste water?

Key term

How does the treatment of industrial waste water differ from that of sewage?

Questions from this subtopic

Each one with the model answer underneath.

1
Where does the large volume of waste water needing treatment come from?
Model answer
From urban lifestyles, such as homes and businesses, and from industrial processes.
2
Explain why waste water must be treated before it is released into the environment.
Model answer
It contains harmful microbes and organic matter that would pollute rivers and harm the organisms living in them.
3
What must be removed from sewage and agricultural waste water?
Model answer
Organic matter and harmful microbes.
4
How does the treatment of industrial waste water differ from that of sewage?
Model answer
Industrial waste water may also need harmful chemicals removed, as well as organic matter.
5
Explain why sewage is treated in several separate stages rather than one.
Model answer
Each stage removes a different kind of material, working from large solids through to dissolved organic matter and microbes.
6
Suggest why a sewage works must handle a much greater volume of liquid after heavy rain.
Model answer
Rainwater drains into the sewers, so the volume of waste water arriving at the works increases.

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