Waste Water Treatment

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Wastewater cleansed at Blue Plains is cleaner than the Potomac River when it is discharged in the waterway. (Rosanne Skirble/VOA)

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By 2025 a new underground tunnel system will reduce to almost zero sewage overflow into Washington, DC waterways. (Credit: Ted Coyle, DC Water)

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The system of pipes, valves and pumping stations that distributes water to more than two million people in Washington, DC and suburban communities is aging like this one installed in 1910. (Credit: DC Water)