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Water Pollution and Control
Author(s) -
BEST GERALD A.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
journal of the society of dyers and colourists
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1478-4408
pISSN - 0037-9859
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-4408.1974.tb03175.x
Subject(s) - sewerage , effluent , water industry , environmental science , pollution , united states regulation of point source water pollution , legislation , water supply , business , water pollution , textile industry , environmental protection , waste management , environmental planning , environmental engineering , water resource management , engineering , nonpoint source pollution , history , ecology , chemistry , archaeology , political science , environmental chemistry , law , biology
The demand for clean water for industry and for domestic supply is increasing yearly. Many readily accessible supplies are fuh'y exploited and water authorities are now having to consider hitherto‐polluted rivers as possible sources for future demand. To meet the demand for clean water and for cleaner rivers which receive the waste from the consumers, a massive amount of expenditure will be required from central and local government and from industry for new water‐treatment plants. The legislation covering river pollution and waste‐water disposal in Scotland is described, and the particular problem of effluents from the textile industry is discussed. Many workers have demonstrated that waste water from the textile industry can be treated using conventional biological treatment and other techniques and be purified sufficiently to meet the standards imposed by the local authority for discharge into the sewerage system, or by the river purification board for discharge into the rivers or the sea.