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Water Treatment - Melbourne Water
To make sure Melbourne has safe drinking water, we treat and disinfect it before it leaves our reservoirs and enters the water supply system.
Water Purification FAQs
Water purification generally means freeing water from any kind of impurity it contains, such as contaminants or micro organisms.
Water purification is not a very one-sided process; the purification process contains many steps. The steps that need to be progressed depend on the kind of impurities that are found in the water. This can differ very much for different types of water.
Melbourne's Drinking Water
There is no need to filter your drinking water. Melbourne has some of the highest-quality drinking water in the world, and our water tastes great from the tap. Here are four reasons why, also known as elements of Melbourne's water supply system.
Separation of Milk
An article about the separation of milk.
How Are Oil Spills Cleaned?
There are four basic ways to clean or contain an oil spill, and workers determine the most appropriate method depending on the location of the spill, potential hazards, weather conditions, waves and currents.
Top 10 of anthropogenic and natural environmental disasters
1. Bhopal: the Union Carbide gas leak
2. Chernobyl: Russian nuclear power plant explosion
3. Seveso: Italian dioxin crisis
4. The 1952 London smog disaster
5. Major oil spills of the 20th and 21st century
6. The Love Canal chemical waste dump
7. The Baia Mare cyanide spill
8. The European BSE crisis
9. Spanish waste water spill
10. The Three Mile Island near nuclear disaster
Waste sorting - Recycling in China
China is facing rapidly mounting volumes of waste. In the future, it intends to have digitally monitored intelligent waste collection sites bring about an increase in the currently low recycling rate. With facial recognition, RFID chips and real-time data processing.
Refining of Petroleum
Petroleum is a complex mixture of organic liquids called crude oil and natural gas, which occurs naturally in the ground and was formed millions of years ago. Crude oil varies from oilfield to oilfield in colour and composition, from a pale yellow low viscosity liquid to heavy black 'treacle' consistencies.

Desalination Melbourne’s water supply comes primarily from dams and reservoirs and water from the Victorian Desalination Plant which now provides an essential role in our city’s water supply.

8 Methods of sewage treatment - Department of Health
Every community should have a way of disposing of sewage so that people, animals and flies cannot touch it. This is called a sewage system.
There are different types of sewage systems which can be described as on-site systems and sewage or effluent systems.

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Videos: Separation and mixtures

Mixtures and Separations (3 mins)

PURE SUBSTANCES AND MIXTURES Solubility of Substances 6 mins

Solubility and the Importance of Water as a Solvent 7 mins

Separating mixtures Video

Bamboo Water Tower

Warka Tower

Warka Tower is designed to harvest water from the atmosphere (rain, fog, dew) providing an alternative water source for rural populations that face challenges accessing drinkable water.