Water Treatment: Advanced Principles and Practices

Water treatment is a process that involves the treatment of water to render it acceptable for specific uses like drinking, irrigation, industrial water supply, etc. It involves either removal or reduction of the contaminants. Some of the contaminants of water include suspended solids, various microbes and minerals such as iron and magnesium. Different physical, chemical and biological processes such as filtration, disinfection, coagulation, etc. are used to treat water. Some of the key func...