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. When treated to acceptable levels or by appropriate processes to meet state water reuse requirements, the effluent is generally referred to as "reclaimed water." In an effort to distinguish sewage sludge that is treated and managed for beneficial purposes, the wastewater treatment industry now refers to sewage sludge as "biosolids." However, for the purposes of this report, it is called tt sewage sludge,'" or simply 'sludge.' The rising volume of municipal wastewater, propelled by growing population and urbanization (see Figure 1.
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The answer to whether wastewater and sludge can be safely applied to crops that people eat depends on several factors. These include the nature and amounts of potentially toxic or pathogenic constituents in treated effluents and sludges, the fate of these constituents once the materials are applied to an agricultural site, the potential of harmful constituents to migrate into plant tissue, the potential for other environmental impacts on water resources from runoff or infiltration, and whether long-term effects on the environment or future crop production are likely.
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1995. Impacts of Municipal Wastewater Treatment: A retrospective analysis.
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