Sustainable Waste Water Treatment: The Way To Go

Wastewater from commercial and industrial

applications has also knowledgeable the very
same fate with out any program by most
environmental stakeholders to make certain
secure disposal. It is on the other hand
noteworthy that some locations and businesses
in Nigeria have currently decided to lead the
course of treating wastewater in a way that
protects our frequent future. The indiscriminate
release of wastewater into the environment in a
lot of Nigerian cities has adversely affected
sanitation and claimed the lives of a lot of men
and women by means of diseases such as
cholera, hepatitis B and typhoid.
THERE has been negative perception of
wastewater treatment for drinking purposes by the populace in several parts of the globe simply
because of the mentality that drinking treated wastewater can be likened to drinking one's pee.
Lagos State alone generates a enormous 1.4 trillion cubic centimeters of wastewater just about
every day, according to government statistics. At the moment, there are wastewater therapy
facilities in Tinapa in Cross River State Maryland, Lekki, Abesan and AmuwoIdofin in Lagos State
and Wupa in Abuja.
The accessible fresh water in the world is a paltry 2.five% of the total water sources and the
accessible fresh water is an insignificant chunk of the fraction readily available. Corporations and
governments at all levels must commence to retrofit current plants with sustainable features and
incorporate non-conventional energy sources into newly created plants. As a result, it seems that
wastewater reuse for potable (and non-potable) application is inevitable.
It is disheartening to note that our dear nation, Nigeria, still dispose wastewater from washrooms,
laundries and kitchen straight into surface waters with no any therapy. On the other hand, treated
wastewater nevertheless faces the challenge of lack of acceptance of quite a few folks due to its
source except in Singapore and California where wastewater is currently getting treated for potable
uses. Wastewater treatment has been recognized to be the cheapest source of water production. As
a result, the effluent type wastewater treatment plants are mostly applied for irrigation, agriculture
and linked purposes. The endocrine disrupting substances in untreated wastewater can alter the
hormone technique of human beings, resulting to reproduction predicaments, cancerous growth,
and deformations of body organs. These gases have deleterious effects on the environment. In a lot
of densely populated regions in Lagos State such as Badagry, Mushin, Oshodi and Ikorodu, most
septic tanks and dry wells are in dilapidated conditions, top to severe cases of groundwater
contamination. In addition to this, most wastewater therapy procedures currently obtainable need
the use of power from traditional fuels (fossil fuels).
For instance, scholars at University Teknologi, Malaysia and Bayero University, Kano identified out
that the discharge of some heavy metals from wastewater into the River Challawa in Kano exceeded
themaximum permissible limit provided by the Federal Ministry of Atmosphere and Planet Well
being Organization. So, how can the wastewater treatment method be carried out with no adverse
impacts? Many men and women have proposed renewable technologies for power supply to therapy
plants and sustainable waste sludge disposal. There are also many repeated instances of non-
compliance of industries to protected discharge of wastewater by National Environmental Standards
Regulatory and Enforcement Agency, NESREA. The metallic content of raw wastewater also causes
serious overall health concerns for humans.
These fuels release poisonous and greenhouse gases such as carbon, nitrogen and sulfur oxides
gases, and methane into the environment. Nevertheless, there is restricted availability of potable
water and wastewater treatment is crucial to the provision of adequate fresh water given that salt
water makes up about 97.five% of the world's total water resources.
Wastewater derives its name from water containing wastes or water that has currently been utilised
for domestic, municipal, industrial or industrial applications. Government at all levels need to
commence to implement wastewater remedy and reuse programmes and policies. Renewable energy
may possibly also be generated for these plants from the biodegradable organic content of waste
sludge from the plants by way of processes such as anaerobic digestion.
Alter of attitude towards wastewater treatment is the important. As substantially as the proposals
and analysis activities on sustainable wastewater therapy seem attractive for the future, the
reclamation of wastewater would stay an environmentally-unfriendly process on the substantial scale
if there is no will on the portion of businesses, governments and the populace to start to do small
business in an uncommon manner. With no this, the preservation of our water resources and the
environment for the future (and youngsters however unborn) remains an illusion.
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Adewale Giwa writes from the Nigeria Future Power Group, Masdar Institute, Abu Dhabi, United
Arab Emirates.. We, as Nigerians, ought to start to be a lot more concerned about how we dispose
the wastewater around us