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Water Treatment March 11, 2011

Posted by Searchable Content in Concentration, Content, EN, The Chemistry of Making.
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You know the word shade and fresh water?

Well, besides indicating that someone is living with the win, it also serves to show the importance of this precious liquid in our day-to-day.

Water for drinking, washing clothes, bathing … these utilities are the first that comes to our head, but the water also has applications that often go unnoticed by us.

It is present in the boiler causing the ship to move, in paper production,

in the cooling of metallurgical processes and cutting tools, in dyeing fabrics for the irrigation of agricultural products and of course, at leisure, as this wonderful pool.

In some applications that we mentioned before, the water need not go through any purification process, but we can drink it, it must be more than cool.

That’s where the theme of our program today: the treatment of water.

The history of man is linked to their need to find and secure sources of water for themselves and their animals.

The water, since antiquity, is used for drinking, but also to move tools like grinding wheel, in religious ceremonies and is a source of dispute between people.

Large cities could only arise when the water can be stored and routed to the most distant points.

The first water treatment plant as we know it today was created in 1892 in London to filter the water of the River Thames.

However, early efforts to make drinking water are much older.

By 1500 BC the Egyptians were using the practice of settling for water purification

… And there are documents in Sanskrit in 2000 BC who advised that water exposure to sunlight and filtering it through charcoal, sand and gravel.

Although they have refined over the centuries, some of these methods are still used today.

In our day to day, we open a tap and did not realize the work that lies behind this facility.

Have you ever stopped to think about water treatment?

Of all water on the planet, only 3% of it is sweet.

With such a small amount of water available, it is impossible to speak in water treatment without touching on environmental and ecological initiatives as the process of reusing water adopted by this building.

Here, water used in taps is not going down the drain, it is stored and used in discharges saving money, water and energy.

But water reuse does not just happen in homes.

Many companies are aware of their role to wisely use a precious asset. Reuse water is a current need.

Steelmakers, for example, internally recycle over 90% of its water.

This attitude is not only due to economic issues, every day a growing number of companies realize the importance of preserving the planet we live on and make the most of the features it offers.

Today’s program was thirsty for knowledge.

But you can not drink from any source, so we chat about the water treatment.

We visited a water treatment plant and learn how great the journey that makes the water until it reaches the taps in our homes, not to mention the importance of recycling and reuse.

So is this, water is a very precious to be thrown down the drain.

Be a conscious consumer, be smart and see you soon!

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