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TOMSK, Oct 18 – RIA Tomsk. Scientists of Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) together with colleagues from universities of Brazil, China,
India and South Africa plan to develop ways of sewage treatment for which sites
of swamps will be used, the press service of the university reports.
It is specified that TPU together with universities of Brazil, China, India and
South Africa submitted the application for a grant to support the
"Integrated approach to water resources management and eco-efficient
technologies of sewage treatment" project. In its framework universities
of Russia, China and Brazil are going to study water resources of the
countries, and universities of India and the Republic of South Africa will
concentrate on development of techniques of sewage treatment.
© РИА Томск. Павел Стефанский
It is noted that the project assumes hydrometeorological, hydrochemical and
remote researches of water resources on the basis of which techniques of
clarification of sewage will be developed. TPU will concentrate on swamps of
Western Siberia, first of all, on Vasyugan one.
"Swamps have unique ability to cope with the pollution coming from the
outside. We want to study this feature in more detail. <…> On the basis
of it it will be already possible to develop techniques of sewage treatment
with the use of sites of swamps", – quoted in the message the research
engineer of laboratory of hydrogeochemistry of TPU Evgenia Soldatova.
According to her, each participant of the project will work on the scientific
task and will exchange the received results with colleagues.
Earlier it was reported that the Tomsk Polytechnic University within work at
Network university of the countries of BRICS is a coordinator of the
international group "Water resources and fight against their
pollution".