Biological Characteristics

Generally in wastewater, millions of microscopic and macroscopic organisms are widely distributed, originating from discharged domestic wastewater. These include bacteria, protozoa, viruses, and limited algal species. Many of these micro — and macroorganisms are considered harmless, and the large diversity of organisms is highly adapted to their conditions and effective in wastewater treatment and acti­vated sludge treatment within the treatment facility. Several recent publications have reported that wastewater provides an ideal medium for potential microbial growth (Kong et al., 2010; Cho et al., 2011; Christenson and Sims, 2011; Park et al., 2011a; Pittman et al., 2011; Rawat et al., 2011), irrespective of anaerobic or aerobic waste­water treatment (Abeliovich, 1986).