Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Effects Of Poor Sewage Treatment Process

By Joshua Perry


Before sewage water is recycled back, it has to be treated. The move helps in ensuring that the water is safe for use but the question is asked all the time. How safe is the water. With so many questions brainstorming our brains without answers. More and more strategies to come up with pure water have been put in place. Though the exercise is still going on the sewage treatment process is faced with a lot of challenges.

Most of the waters we use in our homesteads can be of great benefit to our lives if only its well treated. One of the key benefits of treating water is to ensure that the water can be recycled back for other uses. And by so doing the water shortages are reduced by 99%. Treating water helps curb the crisis of water shortages which are bound to occur during dry spells.

However, the sewerage systems helps in keeping the environment clean since it helps us in managing our liquid wastes. The systems have also relieved the continuous cesspool emptying which was being carried out before the introduction of these systems thus improving the quality of life.

On the other hand, the treatment process helps in improving and promoting healthy living standards. If water from sewage systems is channeled to the rivers and left untreated it can pose massive health risks. This is because these waters act as breeding areas for mosquitoes which are known for transmitting diseases. To reduce the diseases outbreak, stringent measures including proper treatment of this waste should be taken in to consideration when disposing this water.

Apart from causing diseases, water that is not properly can be very harsh to human skin when used for laundry purposes. In the case of plants, when irrigation is done the crops starts to lose their color and may result to the crop wither leading to unexpected droughts.

The last final stage is the tertiary treatment. At this stage water is further treated beyond secondary stage, which makes the water to be 99% pure. The technology involved in this stage is very costly and requires professional with knowledge to completely understand the whole process.

However, disinfecting the waste water is another way of treating sewage waste, the process involves the use of chlorine and since chlorine is very expensive most people may end up ignoring the exercise. This again poses dangers to the environment in the long run.

For people to enjoy all the benefits associated with sewage treatment, all the precautions and steps must be well followed to ensure that waste water has been well treated. This is to ensure that all the negative effects associated with improper treatment have been reduced and also to prevent the situation from getting out of control.




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