ABSTRACT
Wastewater is a matrix with potential impacts and risks in terms of waterborne diseases and deterioration of the environment (cf. Sections 1.2.5 and 1.2.6). Careful management of wastewater is needed when collecting and conveying it to a location for “detoxification”—named as “treatment”—before its discharge to the adjacent environment can be considered feasible. Details of impacts on humans such as diseases caused by pathogenic organisms and environmental effects caused by wastewater substances are not discussed in this book. The impacts and control of the different compounds in terms of chemical, physicochemical, and biological transformations onto the “sewer environment” are, however, central objectives.
