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How to Find Communities in Need?

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Hi, I run a nonprofit that helps communities in Latin America gain access to clean water and proper sanitation, and I was wondering if anyone could give some ...

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Copepods in supernatant return

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Hello friends, I have an issue with copeopds (water fleas) increasing the turbidity in the supernatant return water at a water treatment works. The ...

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Sulfuric acid quantity calculation for Cooling tower

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Hello everyone. I have a question how to calculate sulfuric acid injection capacity for cooling tower. i have no experience cooling tower chemical plant so i ...

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Poly vinyl alcohol dissolvable plastic packaging in household waste water

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I am studying plastics ending in water systems as part of a CPG industry analysis; there are indirect plastics like PET/PP/HDPE/LDPE intended for landfill or ...

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How to remove caustic smell after DM plant??

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How  can I remove caustic smell from DM or MB treated water? Treated water to be used to make alcohol. After DM or MB Activated carbon Filter should be used ...

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RO high pressure pump

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Dear members, We have an RO plant that the high pressure pump was supposed to work at 12 bars at start-up regarding the projection software report, but it's ...

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Water hyacinth

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More and more rivers in Sub-Sahara Africa face high proliferation of water hyacinth. This is problematic for the ecosystem services, for water supplies for ...

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Water consumption for 100 ha crop

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i have seen quite large agricultural activities in the Saudi desert, probably fed by underground water reserves.  Do you have a suggestions for the average ...

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RO design to reduce fouling

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Dear experts, In two stages RO design, if we keep the flux of both stages near together (by flux balancing methods), is that a good option to decrease the ...

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RO REJECT VALVE

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Hi! Can anyone help me understand how to size RO reject valve properly? Is their any sizing calculations applied  if we know the flow rate of reject? Thanks

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The Percentage of Chlorine in Sodium Hypochlorite?

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Currently, many municipal water treatment facilities use Sodium Hypochlorite (NaOCl) to disinfect water in one of the stages of the water treatment. I have ...

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