Sunday, September 23, 2018

Tips For Municipal Water Treatment In Kenya

By Anthony Patterson


Large-scale aquatic treatment is mandatory to make it safe for different end-use. Most end-use include recreation, drinking, irrigation and other economic activities. Most municipalities have spent a lot of money in this kind of process and have registered success over time. There are many activities that require to be considered to achieve a similar success rate. Below are guidelines for municipal water treatment in Kenya to take into consideration.

Start by acquainting with aspects that affect marine quality. All the aspects that affect aquatic quality are based on environmental factors and human activities. Environmental aspects include sedimentation, runoffs, and soil erosion. On the other hand, human activities that affect marine quality comprises of industrial waste, commercial cleaning activities, household cleaning, and littering and air pollution.

Establish the coagulation and flocculation process. This is the first steps in treating aquatic that is used commercially. Chemicals that have positive charges are added in the water to neutralize the negative charges that the dissolved particles have. The particles join together to form larger particles that are known as flocs. They are removed through filtration or settling procedure.

Consider the sedimentation procedure. This marks the next step after flocculation. In this process, the aquatic is moved slowly to allow the flocs formed in the previous process to settle to the bottom of the sedimentation process. The flocs that accumulate at the bottom is regarded to as sludge. They are removed through the filtration process.

Ensure that the filtration procedure is handled well. The filtration process is handled after the sedimentation process is completed. The marine is passed via a filter which captures all the solid components. They remain on the filter and are removed using an osmosis process or manually. Common particles that are captured by the filter include sand, gravel, and crushed anthracite particles. This process should be handled well to make the disinfection procedure easy enough.

Check the disinfection procedure. Different means are used in this process based on the marine quality. However, chlorine is widely used since it is very useful compared with the rest chemicals. Water from lakes, rivers, dams and other surface marine bodies should be treated using intensive measures since they have a lot of impurities. A similar process should be considered with borehole water.

Provide a consumer confidence report. Municipal aquatic suppliers are expected to provide an annual report related to every aspect that is associated with the water that they supply. It should provide information regarding the aquatic source, management process and various methods that consumers can use to protect themselves from contamination. Such reports increase the rate of confidence of the consumers to their municipality and can comfortably file complaints and expect quick responses.

Instill the consumers on personal aquatic cure processes. The fact that municipal treatment of H2O makes is quite suitable does not guarantee that it is completely safe for usage. Consumers should make their input to be entirely sure about the safety of the marine that they use. They should adopt measures such as regular boiling, filtering, softening and control of PH. Special measures can be considered for people with low immunity and while improving the marine taste.




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