A clear well (sometimes spelled as "clearwell") is a component of a municipal
drinking water purification system. It refers to the final storage stage in the system, following the
filtration and
disinfection stages. The filtered water is held in a storage basin to allow the disinfectant to inactivate any remaining
pathogen
In biology, a pathogen ( el, πάθος, "suffering", "passion" and , "producer of") in the oldest and broadest sense, is any organism or agent that can produce disease. A pathogen may also be referred to as an infectious agent, or simply a germ ...
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Water well
A well is an excavation or structure created in the ground by digging, driving, or drilling to access liquid resources, usually water. The oldest and most common kind of well is a water well, to access groundwater in underground aquifers. T ...
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