Societal Problems → Effluent
UN Sustainable Development Goals
Description
Effluent is wastewater from sewers or industrial outfalls that flows directly into surface waters, either untreated or after being treated at a facility. The term has slightly different meanings in certain contexts, and may contain various pollutants depending on the source.
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Organizations relating to Effluent
United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries / Geneva, Switzerland / Est. 2008
Forest Carbon Partnership Facility / Washington DC, USA
Prototype Carbon Fund / Washington DC, USA / Est. 1999
International Carbon Action Partnership / Berlin, Germany / Est. 2007
Climate Investment Funds / Est. 2008
Association européenne pour le contrôle des eaux usées
Programa Latinoamericano del Carbono / Caracas, Venezuela / Est. 1999
Internationale Gesellschaft für Elektrosmog-Forschung / Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain / Est. 1990
Community-COST Concertation Agreement on a Concerted Action Project in the Field of Treatment and Use of Sewage Sludge / Est. 1979
Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution on Further Reduction of Sulphur Emissions / Est. 1994
Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution on the Reduction of Sulphur Emissions or Their Transboundary Fluxes by at Least 30 per Cent / Est. 1985
Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution Concerning the Control of Nitrogen Oxides Emissions or Their Transboundary Fluxes / Est. 1988
Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution Concerning the Control of Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds on Their Transboundary Fluxes / Est. 1991
Avicenna Project / Est. 1995
Nordic Wastewater Association
Smart Water Networks Forum / Weybridge, UK
International Conference on Marine Waste Water Discharges and Coastal Environment
Nordic Waste Water Conference / Est. 1989
International Congress on Water, Waste and Energy Management
Carbon Capture and Storage Association / London, UK
Global Commons Institute, London / London, UK / Est. 1991
Energy Transitions Commission / Est. 2016
European Working Group on Acoustic Emission / Warsaw, Poland / Est. 1972
Transition Network / Totnes, UK / Est. 2006
International Nitrogen Workshop
European Water and Wastewater Industry Association / Brussels, Belgium / Est. 1977
International Environmental Technology Centre / Osaka, Japan / Est. 1992
The European Plastic Pipes and Fittings Association / Brussels, Belgium / Est. 1992
Agreement on the Implementation of a European Project on Pollution, on the Topic 'sewage Sludge Processing' / Est. 1971
Global Logistics Emissions Council / Amsterdam, Netherlands / Est. 2014
European Lightweighting Network / Liège, Belgium
International Institute of Innovative Acoustic Emission / Kyoto, Japan
Asia Zero Emission Community / Jakarta, Indonesia / Est. 2023
SteelWatch / The Hague, Netherlands
International Council on Surgical Plume / Clarence NY, USA / Est. 2014
Caribbean Water and Wastewater Association / St Joseph, Trinidad-Tobago / Est. 1988
International Conference on Combustion, Incineration, Pyrolysis, Emission and Climate Change / Est. 2000
Zero Emissions Research Initiatives / Kamakura, Japan / Est. 1994
CO2 Value Europe / Brussels, Belgium / Est. 2017
Together for Sustainability / Brussels, Belgium / Est. 2011
Cooperative Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Long-range Transmission of Air Pollutants in Europe / Geneva, Switzerland / Est. 1977
Eastern and Southern Africa Water and Sanitation Regulators Association / Lusaka, Zambia / Est. 2007
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World Problems relating to Effluent
From the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human PotentialInadequate toilet facilities
Emissions from combustion engines
Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide
Lead as an environmental pollutant
Exploitation of fossil fuels
Health hazards of passive smoking
Contaminated animal feed
Industrial waste water pollutants
Industrial air emissions
Sewage as a pollutant
Waste waters
Malodorous fumes
Defective municipal water delivery equipment
Effluents from animal husbandry
Pollution of water by infected faeces
Radioactive wastes
Threatened habitats of wastewater treatment areas
Smoke as a pollutant
Industrial and domestic heating emissions as air pollutants
Thermal pollution
Bilirubin disorders
Photochemical oxidant formation
Irritant fumes
Inadequate sanitation infrastructure
Inadequate disposal of female sanitary protection
Action Strategies relating to Effluent
From the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human PotentialEstablishing transferable pollution rights
Developing policy on climate change
Defending right to smoke
Licensing carbon dioxide emissions
Assessing and eliminating emissions of uncontrollable organo-halogens
Controlling harmful levels of artificial discharge to coastal waters
Reducing methane emissions from animal husbandry
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Strengthening programmes to control sewage discharge
Reducing transport emissions
Using root zone wastewater treatment
Ensuring primary treatment of municipal sewage discharged to rivers and seas
Incorporating sewage disposal in development plans for coastal settlements
Constructing storm drains
Undertaking environmentally sound co-treatment of compatible effluents
Cleaning up dog excrement from pavements
Establishing global greenhouse trading system
Locating coastal sewage outfalls to avoid environmental risks
Improving sewage treatment technology
Securing chemical data from industry for assessing potential risks
Increasing urban water treatment capacity
Avoiding diffuse pollution of agricultural chemicals
Reporting routine emissions of toxic chemicals to the environment
Controlling industrial effluents with precautionary measures based on life-cycle analysis
Setting national standards for industrial effluents and solid wastes
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