Water/Wastewater Treatment
Ensuring safe drinking water and developing environmentally responsible ways to treat, manage and reclaim wastewaters help to enhance and sustain our natural and social environment.
UMA has the skills needed to identify effective solutions for municipal and industrial water/wastewater treatment requirements.
With experience in all aspects of water and wastewater treatment — from conceptual project definition, design development and construction to commissioning, operational support and asset management — we provide our clients with total project solutions.
What we do:
For water:
- Pre-treatment
- Low cost fluidized bed potable water systems
- Coagulation, flocculation and sedimentation
- Lime softening
- Conventional media filtration
- Chlorination, ozonation and ultraviolet disinfection
- Advanced oxidation
- Granular activated carbon adsorption
- Dissolved air flotation
- Ion exchange
- Reverse osmosis
- Membrane filtration
- Distillation
- Reservoirs
- Booster stations and water pipelines
For wastewater:
- Preliminary treatment
- Primary sedimentation
- Treatment of combined sewer overflows (CSO)
- Physical-chemical treatment
- Waste stabilization ponds, aerated lagoons and wetlands
- Conventional and enhanced nutrient removal (BNR and ENR)
- Advanced growth systems
- Membrane biological reactors (MBR)
- Residual management systems
- Effluent disinfection and disposal
- Tertiary treatment and water reuse
- Odour control
- Contaminants of emerging concern (CEC)
- Pump stations and pipelines
