6 Drainage areas

6 Drainage areas
Waste water is generated in and on buildings and paved surfaces. From there, it must be safely drained and
guided to a waste water treatment plant. This sequence gives rise to three drainage areas:
• building drainage: draining waste water in and on buildings and discharging it into the sewage system
• sewage system: draining waste water from a settlement and supplying it to the waste water treatment plant
• waste water treatment: treating the waste water and discharging the purified water into receiving waters.

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Figure 9: Drainage areas

A Building drainage
B Sewage system
C Waste water treatment

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