WATER QUALITY CRITERIA

Specific levels of water quality which, if reached, are expected to render a body of water suitable for its designated use. The criteria are based on specific levels of pollutants that would make the water harmful if used for drinking, swimming, farming..

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WATER POLLUTION

The presence in water of enough harmful or objectionable material to damage the water’s quality. Source: World Bank

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WASTEWATER TREATMENT STREAM

The continuous movement of waste from generator to treater and disposer. Source: World Bank

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WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT

A facility containing a series of tanks, screens, filters, and other processes by which pollutants are removed from water. Source: World Bank

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WASTEWATER

The spent or used water from individual homes, a community, a farm, or an industry that contains dissolved or suspended matter. Source: World Bank

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WASTE REDUCTION

All means of reducing the amount of waste that is producd initially and that must be collected by solid waste authorities. This ranges from legislation and product design to local programs designed to keep recyclabes and compostables out of the final waste

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WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN

Means waste management plan as defined in the Waste Management Act. Source: British Columbia Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks, Canada – Landfill Criteria For Municipal Solid Waste

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WASTE

1. Unwanted materials left over from a manufacturing process. 2. Refuse from places of human or animal habitation. Source: World Bank

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VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND(VOC)

Any organic compound which participates in atmospheric photochemical reactions generally having a bioling point of less than 145 degrees Celsius (see Air Pollution Engineering Manual, eds. Buonicore & Davis, 1992, Table 7, p. 45.)

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VOLATILE

Description of any substance that evaporates readily. Source: World Bank

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