Industrial Wastewater Disposal

There are several reasons why a company would choose to modify their current approach to waste water disposal or treatment, says Jacqualine Ingram, Senior Operations Engineer at Farrer (UK). In the UK wastewater disposal and treatment is paid for in one of three ways: ?By discharging to the public sewerage system and thereafter paying the regional water authority to deal with the waste ?By paying a specialist company to take the waste away and manage it ?By treating it to a high enough standard that the Environment Agency allows it to be discharged to a watercourse. Or regional water authority if the waste water is discharged to a sewer. There are several reasons why a company would choose to modify their current approach to waste water disposal or treatment: