In the U.S., HEDP
about 325 billion gal of water are used every day. Almost all of this
water, used primarily by industry, municipalities (excluding residential
and commercial), and power-generating utilities, must be treated.
Physical, chemical, and biological methods are used for treating water
to remove pollutants or contaminants that can interfere with its use, or
to allow for its discharge into surface waters.
The overall market for water treatment chemicals totaled $2.32
billion in 1988, according to a study by Freedonia Group, a
Clevelandbased research group. Nearly 12.9 billion lb of water treatment
chemicals were sold that year. Because water treatment chemicals
include both commodity and specialty-grade chemicals, the sizes of the
major markets can differ widely when considered by dollar value or
volume.
The industrial market, which covers a broad range of manufacturing,
processing, and refining industries, accounted for close to a third of
the total volume of chemicals used, but nearly 47% of
Isiolo County government has partnered up with UNICEF to provide free
water treatment chemicals and storage jerrycans to enable the residents
to purify drinking water drawn from the contaminated river
The items flagged off to the homes include 2,000 20-Litre Jerrycans,
5000 pieces of bar soaps, 22000 water treatment chemical sachets, one
generator for the borehole and two 10,000 litre tanks for use by
residents of Modogashe township. Isiolo County Governor Mohamed Kuti
thanked the
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