Water and wastewater infrastructure

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Water and wastewater infrastructure is a generic term to describe public works, piping and plant facilities that treat and distribute drinking water taken from the environment and deliver it for use to a community and also the cycle that manages and treats the wastewater that come back out of the community before its release back into the environment.

The term describes the conduit pipes, facilities and generally the man made circuit of a community water system as part of the whole public works infrastructure.

See Also:

• Water industry

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