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Growing Trend toward Reuse and Zero Discharge
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2001.tb09354.x
Subject(s) - reuse , closed loop , environmental science , environmental economics , production (economics) , streams , water resource management , zero (linguistics) , waste management , business , computer science , engineering , economics , control engineering , linguistics , philosophy , computer network , macroeconomics
As water costs increase and supplies dwindle, more and more industries are turning to high‐tech water treatment systems that recycle and reuse water within plant production processes. This article describes how some of these systems include “closed loop” technology known as zero liquid discharge (ZLD) that recycles all inplant water streams and discharges none to the environment. The trend is benefiting companies like USFilter, which reports a wave of new bookings for ZLD and other industrial water reuse systems.