Water purification, from dirty to clean water
Did you know that the average Amsterdam resident uses 141 litres of water per day? That is about 14 buckets full. We use this water as drinking water, but also for showering and flushing the toilet. This wastewater ends up in the public sewer system together with rainwater. From the sewer, the water goes to the water treatment plant to be cleaned.
Waternet maintains the sewer pipes in and around Amsterdam. That's 4,000 kilometres of pipes! That's about the same distance as from Amsterdam to the coast of Canada. Sewage water cannot simply be allowed to flow into nature or the canals of Amsterdam. That is why a sewage treatment plant cleans the dirty water first. Only then can it be returned to nature. This is done by the Water Authority Amstel, Gooi & Vecht You can read all about it on the authority's website (You are leaving this website).
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