Meeting growing urban water needs through water reclamation and reuse
- Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States)
The subject of this presentation is the crisis in water management that results from exploding urban population growth. The world population is growing at a rate of almost 100 million per year, with urban growth being most of that. The problems of providing water and controlling pollution grow exponentially as population grows. Sources of water need to be larger and are inevitably more distant and more costly, if available. In urban areas, with attendant commercial and industrial enterprises, the concentrated heavy loads of pollutants seriously overburden receiving waters. Fish is often destroyed, with the loss of both essential food and employment, to say nothing of the impact of urban pollution on downstream water supplies.
- OSTI ID:
- 99319
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9401118-; TRN: IM9539%%110
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 5. national conference on water: our next crisis, Philadelphia, PA (United States), 11-12 Jan 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of The fifth national conference proceedings. Water: Our next crisis?; Durdu, S.; Patrick, R. [eds.]; PB: 357 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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