Assertion: Secondary treatment of sewage is also called biological treatment while primary treatment is called physical treatment.
Reason: Primary sewage treatment depends only upon sedimentation properties of materials present in sewage and filtaration and seccondary treatment involves microbes.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
Sewage treatment is divided into primary treatment and secondary treatment. Primary treatment involves filtration of the sewage and then sedimentation of the debris present on filtrate. No microbes are used.The sediment of primary treatment, called primary sludge, is treated by aerobic microbes and then by anaerobic microbes to reduce its organic components during secondary treatment. Secondary treatment involves microbes, thus it is also called biological treatment.