WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT

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Sep 7, 2018 · 3 min read

There is a lack of resources in the society, those which are available are non renewable. The over growing population , urbanisation exploits these scarce resources to a great extent, and the practices they follow are not sustainable. This is due to the lack of knowledge and energy efficient resources in the society.

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By and large,it is fresh water that is used for a variety of domestic uses such as washing, bathing & flushing toilets. Washing involves the washing of utensils used in cooking, washing vegetables and other food items, bathing and washing clothes. The water that emerges after these uses contains, vegetable matter, oils used in cooking, oil in hair, detergents, dirt from floors that have been washed , soap used in bathing along with oils/greases washed from the human body. This water is referred to as “ Grey Water” or sullage.

Water used to flush toilets to evacuate human excreta is called “ Black Water” or Sewage.Grey water is easier to purify as compared to black water, i.e sewage. However, the practice predominantly followed in India is to combine these two wastes to discharge into a public sewer or into a sewage treatment plant in a residential community/ building that has no access to a public sewer.

PS : Discharging untreated sewage into any drains other than an underground sewerage system, or into open land , is an offence and invites prosecution under the laws of all Pollution Control Boards in the country.

waste water treatment plant

There are two waste water treatment plants namely chemical or physical treatment plant, and biological wastewater treatment plant.

Biological waste treatment plants use biological matter and bacteria to break down waste matter. Biological treatment systems are ideal for treating wastewater from households and business premises

Physical waste treatment plants use chemical reactions as well as physical processes to treat wastewater. Physical wastewater treatment plants are mostly used to treat wastewater from industries, factories and manufacturing firms. This is because most of the wastewater from these industries contains chemicals and other toxins that can largely harm the environment. To a small extent, nature can deal with naturally produced contaminants like human and animal waste. However, the massive amount of wastewater today cannot be managed by nature alone.

Wastewater management is the only solution. Since the process of reducing contaminants will takes decades of dedicated effort, the better solution would be to manage the wastewater. Fortunately, technology can help us here.

Econaur works with the intent to provide these resources and the required knowledge about them to the people. The main objective of Econaur is to make the construction green, sustainable, and to minimise the adverse effects that the construction industry does to the environment. The Products/Materials that we Showcase can be made from recyclable or non-recyclable process but their overall contribution is in decreasing the greenhouse gas emissions, decreasing the energy & water consumption

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