Florida Water Geek

How are contaminants removed from wastewater? Wastewater Treatment Facilities, Water Reclamation Facilities, and Water Resource Recovery Facilities Water used in our homes and businesses flows through the wastewater collection system  to a wastewater treatment facility (WWTF) , also called Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW)   if  owned by a state or local government, which many are. Water Reclamation Facilities (WRFs) are those  that provide advanced treatment, cleaning the water to a higher level to produce reclaimed water. Reclaimed water can be reused for irrigation, cooling towers, wetlands enhancement or other uses.  Image by  Michal Jarmoluk  from  Pixabay Water Resource Recovery Facilities (WRRFs) take things a step further by extracting valuable materials from wastewater, such as creating biogas from excess biolsolids that can be used for energy. WRRFs may also recover valuable metals or nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus to be use...