Backwashing: Many treatment facilities run treated water backward through filter media to better strip pollutants and contaminants from treated water. Air sparging: Using air as part of the water treatment process is called sparging, and it is essentially bubble aeration. Aeration lifts and circulates water and tumbles out particulate. More @Wikipedia
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