Eddie Broeders, Business Development Manager Municipal, Nijhuis Industries, Netherlands
(free)Background
About 190 tons of medicines in the Netherlands is discharged in surface water
~95% through human bodies
Current SWTPs are not designed to remove micro’s
Dutch program for reduction of Micropollutants in water
Requirements for micropollutant removal
For NL (derived from Swiss approach)
70-80% reduction of 7 / 11 guiding substances Based on influent SWTP + tertiary treatment
Bromate < 1 µg/l in mixing zone effluent WTW
50% reduction of ecotoxicity – Simoni test
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