Waste water management – The role of industries

On the eve of the COP21 conference, 184 countries covering around 95 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions had delivered their national climate action plans to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). According to Joan Rose, laboratory director and principal investigator in water research at Michigan State University, human waste contains a wide range of bacteria, viruses and other pathogens. The firm’s Water, Wastewater and Environmental services (WWE) team is one of the largest dedicated groups in the country and has deep transactional expertise in almost every segment of the water market.

While the Region has seen progress in terms of increased access to clean water and sanitation for many, significant disparities remain and highlight the need for continued work to bring the benefits of safely managed water and sanitation services to everyone.

Water is the most important resource in the life of man.

He said only a few factories that the department inspected did not pass the pollution standard, and nearly all big factories generating more than 7,500 cubic metres of wastewater were under a real-time monitoring system and did not cause a pollution problem.

“The catchments in KwaZulu-Natal, Western Cape, Gauteng and Nelson Mandela Bay are highly stressed”, the company said. Governments at all levels do a lot to provide tap water, boreholes and tube wells as far as their budgets can carry; development institutions, civil society and NGOs also offer their widows mite in this regard. There has been a constant endeavour amongst the water professionals to innovate new technologies with the basic aim of reducing the reaction time, plant foot prints and cost of treatment. In 2015 – and as part of the Sustainable Development Goals – a UN Initiative set a target to make sure everyone on the planet has access to safe water by 2030. The day focuses attention on the importance of universal access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities in developing countries, as well as advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.

World Water Day 2017 is March 22 and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says one in 10 people around the world still do not have a safe water supply close to home. With increasing spread of processing facilities into inland areas future increases in the percentage of wastewater from industrial sources could be expected.

The Global Framework on Water Scarcity, launched by FAO, promotes alternative sources of water, such as rainwater harvesting and the reuse of treated wastewater.

South Africa will be putting more resources towards recycling wastewater.

The event will feature the 2017 edition of the UN’s world water development programme, “Wastewater: The Untapped Resource“.

In spite of its prevalence in the urban areas of Ghana, there’re two municipal and three metropolitan assemblies that have wastewater and faecal sludge treatment plants in Ghana – Ho and Ashaiman Municipal Assemblies and Tamale, Greater Accra and Kumasi Metropolitan Assemblies as stated in the report above.

Experts are welcoming the move to treat wastewater, but warn that clear policies are needed.

We should use water as efficiently as possible because we rely alot on water.

Treated wastewater can be used back in the process, for cooling and/or heating and rainwater from roof collection can be used for flushing of toilets or irrigation.