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    Tarraway Water Journey

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    Melbourne Water Journey Melbourne has the some of the highest quality water in the world. They supply it to 4 million people in individual homes and business. Their water is filtered because you could get a disease from water germs, such as cryptosporidium, Ecoli, hepatitis A, giardia, intestinalisis and other pathogens drinking water sources are subject to contamination and requires thorough treatment to get rid of the disease causing agents. Melbourne water operate two large filtration plant which

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    into the interlayer space of Mt particles, developing a polymer barrier on the clay mineral surfaces. Due to the barrier-related steric hindrances and/or alkaline pH-derived electrostatic repulsions, the clay mineral particles built a card-house flocculation structure, which after suitable washing and drying can convert to a semi-card-house form in dry products. [2] Treatment of laundry wastewater

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    Dead Zones

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    Dead zones are hypoxic zones that can occur naturally but recently are being created by human interference and any naturally occurring ones rapidly grow bigger due to outside influence.The main impact humans have that cause dead zones are the surplus of nutrients in the water, these come primarily from farms and drain into rivers and streams or as excess water that is dumped into a lake or river. All the nutrients allows huge amounts of algae to grow at a rapid rate and once there is no longer enough

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    tizamichael@gmail.com ABSTRACT. The effectiveness of banana stem juice as a natural coagulant for treatment of turbid water was investigated. The main parameter studied was Turbidity. Coagulation experiments using jar test was performed with a flocculation system where the effects of Turbid Water pH, Retention time as well as Dosage of Banana Stem Juice on coagulation was examined. A Three Level Factorial Design in Response Surface Methodology (RSM) using Design Expert software was applied in the

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    MAKING | Investigating the effectiveness of common fining agents on homemade fruit wine with respect to Turbidity, Sediment level, Ph and Alcohol content. | | Year 12 Chemistry | Extended Experimental InvestigationA comparison of chemical flocculation agents | Mario Mitov | Mrs Cullen 2011 | | Contents: 1.0- Abstract 2.0- Introduction/Background 3.0-

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    In third-world countries, water and sanitation facilities are often scarce or unreliable. Contaminated water and poor sanitation are linked to transmission of diseases such as chorea, dirrhoea, hepatitis, typhoid and polio. Each day 2000 children die from diarrhoea caused by contaminated water an inadequate sanitation and hygiene and overall around 842000 people are estimated to die each year. These diseases have the insidious effect of reducing people’s ability to access education and earn income

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    Water Use Efficiency Countries can reduce its water scarcity and maximize its benefits by improving the water efficiency by the use of existing water infrastructures. This will help the availability of water and reduces its environmental degradation. Improve water efficiency will contribute to countries development goals and reduce the demand. It entails finding ways to maximize the value of water use and allocation decisions within and between sectors for sustainable social and economic development

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    AUTONUMLGL INTRODUCTION The nature of threats to the environment posed by oily wastewater containing hydrocarbons, has led to it being recognized as hazardous waste. Literature has shown that hydrocarbons contribute to the greenhouse effect and global warming, deplete the ozone, increase occurrences of cancer and respiratory disorders, and reduce the photosynthetic ability of plants. In addition, such hazardous waste is primarily generated at growing rates, by various industries which utilize petroleum

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    CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Urinalysis is a commonly used clinical tool for the evaluation of various renal and non-renal problems (endocrine,metabolic and genetic) (Lee 2009). Urinalysis is the third major diagnostic screening test in the clinical laboratory, only preceded by serum/plasma chemistry profiles and complete blood count analysis (Delanghe & Speeckaert 2014). A routine urinalysis is done as a screening test during many hospital admissions and initial physician visits. It is also performed

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    Nanotechnology is a term of two words: the first word is “Nano” and derives from the Greek word “Nanos” and it means “Dwarf” or something very small. The second word is “Technology” and it means applied application of knowledge in a certain field. So nanotechnology is the technology of very small substances, and it specializes in treating the substance on the Nano measure to produce new, useful, and unique resultants in its properties [22-23].The Nano is a unique measuring unit and from the physical

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