Toxicity of domestic wastewater pH to key species within an innovative decentralised vermifiltration system

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 211-218

  Hughes, Robert J ^a   Nair, J ^a   Mathew, K ^a   Ho, G ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biological inhibition; Buffer capacity; pH; Vermifiltration

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; PH; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TOXICITY; WATER FILTRATION;

BIOLOGICAL INHIBITION; BUFFER CAPACITY; VERMIFILTRATION;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BUFFER; NITRITE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM HYDROXIDE;

BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; PH; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TOXICITY; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER FILTRATION;

DOMESTIC WASTE; INHIBITION; PH; TOXICITY; WASTEWATER;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECENTRALIZATION; DOMESTIC WASTE; EFFLUENT TOXICITY; EISENIA ANDREI; EISENIA FOETIDA; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; INDICATOR ORGANISM; MESOCOSM; NONHUMAN; PH; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SURVIVAL; TOXICITY TESTING; VERMICOMPOST; VERMIFILTRATION SYSTEM; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WORM;

ANIMALS; BUFFERS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FILTRATION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; OLIGOCHAETA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOXICITY TESTS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

EID: 34248578780     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2007.147     Document Type: Conference Paper

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