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Sewage treatments systems operating today have evolved over the last century or so, and modern sewage works now employ state of the art engineering and computerized electronics. The operation of such modern sewage plant is backed up by continued research into the physiology of organisms involved in sewage treatment and much sophisticated work is underway to improve the treatment of the increasing volume of sewage effluent that we produce. Some of examples of these recent developments are given below.
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Wainwright, M. (1999). Novel Trends in Biological Waste Water Treatment. In: An Introduction to Environmental Biotechnology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5251-2_8
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