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Effluent Guidelines

Industrial Wastewater Treatment Technology Database (IWTT)

""The Industrial Wastewater Treatment Technology Database provides technology performance data from peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and government reports. IWTT can be used for many purposes including:
  • investigating established and emerging treatment technologies
  • identifying technologies that can treat a particular pollutant
  • understanding the motivation behind installation of new treatment at an industrial facility.
The information included in IWTT:
  • was published since 2000
  • describes pilot- or full-scale systems treating industrial wastewater
  • meets specified data quality criteria.