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Raw water

Water prior to treatment - also known as feed water or intake water.

Reject water

Water containing salts or particulate from the treatment process that has no beneficial use. Also referred to as RO concentrate.

Reverse Osmosis (RO)

A separation process in which a membrane acts as a molecular filter to remove dissolved salts from fliud.