Application to certain industries
Water treatment before use - Fields and applications

It is impossible to draw up an exhaustive list of all the uses to which water can be put in a factory; at best, we can try to group them into the following main categories:

• single component (bottled water), essential (beverages, dialysis, injectable preparations) or significant (many food products) of the finished product;

• essential agent in manufacturing (e.g., paper mills, textile and dyeing industries, pharmaceuticals, chemicals [23], etc.);

• washing of products and equipment (e.g., food processing industries), rinsing of finished products (e.g., electronics industry);

• boiler fuel supply and heat transport (covered in another article);

• transport of materials or waste (e.g., steel mill slag, sugar beet in sugar refineries, fibers or pulp in paper mills),...