abstract:Population equivalent or unit per capita loading, (PE), in waste-water treatment is the number expressing the ratio of the sum of the pollution load produced during 24 hours by industrial facilities and services to the individual pollution load in household sewage produced by one person in the same time.
Yet, considering a population of 1.4 billion, if 1% of them were moving out of poverty each year it would be the equivalent of the population of Russia all of a sudden having a little extra cash to spend at the supermarket.