Statistics Explained

Test GKN Creation

  • sewage sludge production and disposal — an inevitable product of wastewater treatment processes, its impact on the environment depends on the methods chosen for its processing and disposal;
  • generation and discharge of wastewater — pollutants present in wastewater have different source profiles and, similarly, the efficiency of treatment of any pollutant varies according to the method applied [1].


  1. Discharges from cooling water are not regarded as wastewater in water statistics.