Improvement of the Purification Technology of Natural Waters in Waterworks in the Steppes and the Desert Zone

AbstractThe most important task of housing and communal services is to provide a high-quality drinking water to the population. It is necessary to improve the existing traditional water supply system and to develop new means of water treatment.Processing of the wash water and sludge produced during water treatment due to technical imperfections of the recommended methods. Cleaning of wash water and sediment is an important issue and should always be dealt with in conjunction with the preparation of drinking water at waterworks. The main results of the sedimentation process studies slurry in water treatment at waterworks Lower Volga region of steppe and desert zones are presented. Complex investigations in filtering the washing water have been performed It is shown that the main characteristic in determining the size of horizontal tanks is the quantity of a minimum hydraulic size of suspended particles regardless of the geographical area