Environmental Science 14th Edition by Tyler Miller ,Scott Spoolman

Exercise 5

When you flush your toilet, where does the wastewater go Trace the actual flow of this water in your community from your toilet through sewers to a wastewater treatment plant and from there to the environment. Try to visit a local sewage treatment plant to see what it does with your wastewater. Compare the processes it uses with those shown in Figure 11-32. What happens to the sludge produced by this plant What improvements, if any, would you suggest for this plant List the three best ways you can think of for reducing your unnecessary waste of water. Which, if any, of these things do you already do