Re:‘Superbugs’ found breeding in sewage plants
by maxerickson on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @11:38AM
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Apparently there is anyway movement to UV, as it is safer than handling/dealing with chlorine (at least, this is what someone tells me about the industry in the US).
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Re:‘Superbugs’ found breeding in sewage plants
by timr on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @04:00PM
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UV is certainly easier to deploy than chlorine gas (a UV leak won't poison everyone in the room via gas inhalation), but it's still dangerous at the scales used to sterilize large quantities of water.
The bigger problem than either is that AFAIK, few places bother to sterilize their effluent. I'm not even sure if San Francisco bothers to do that, actually...