One of my clients is looking for a publication, which he believes was published by (or at least the research was performed by) the Water Environment Federation or the Water Environment Research Federation, that discusses the phenomenon where over the past five or six years, the biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) of sanitary or municipal wastewater has been increasing from its norm of 200 mg/L, due to increases in population growth, advanced trea! tment processes, etc.

Would anyone be familiar with this research? If so, is there a link to the publication(s) which I can pass on to my client?

Thank you very much in advance!

SLTNerac:

The use of water saving devices such as waterless urinals, low flush toilets decrease the amount of water that accompanies human waste and consequently increase the amount of BOD per given volume.  While this is a small bit of information it is best if you utilize the search function available from Water Environment Research or anyother WEF publications available by using the following links:

http://www.wef.org/ScienceTechnologyResources/Publications/

http://www.wef.org/ScienceTechnologyResources/Publications/WER/

Since you have been employed by your client to provide this information I think it is best to leave the searching to be done at your leisure.

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