In wastewater treatment equipment, a surfactant is added to a
micronanobubble reaction vessel 3 by using a surfactant pump 8 and a
surfactant tank 9 which constitute a surfactant adding section. Thereby,
a micronanobubble generator 4 stably and efficiently produces
micronanobubbles in the treatment water as raw water containing the
surfactant in the micronanobubble reaction vessel 3. Thus, the
micronanobubbles make it possible to efficiently pretreat the wastewater
introduced into the micronanobubble reaction vessel. Consequently, it
becomes possible not only to enhance efficiency of wastewater treatment
but also to reduce a treatment load on wastewater treatment equipment 14
in a step subsequent to the pretreatment. Thereby, scale of the
wastewater treatment equipment 14 is reduced.