How Water And Waste Water Treatment Can Protect Environment ?

 

Water is a substance, that covers around 71% of the earth. However 97% of water is salt water found in oceans only 3% of water is freshwater among that 2.5 % of water is hard to access because it is locked up in glaciers, polar ice caps, atmosphere and soil or too far under the earth surface to access at an affordable cost. Only 0.5 % of water is available to us for our daily water supply needs. But, that water is polluting today and the level of that freshwater is decreasing day by day.

Wastewater is an unavoidable fact of life. Without treatment, wastewater can create a number of different hazards. How does wastewater treatment work to protect our environment and the people who call it home?

Reduce Water Scarcity

Water scarcity is a growing problem for populations around the world. The average American household uses 300 gallons of water every single day, totalling more than 322,000 million gallons of water throughout the country. That might seem like a lot, but it’s a small fraction of the people who don’t have access to clean water around the globe. According to the UN, around 1.2 billion people one-fifth of the current population live in an area without access to clean water. Another 1.6 billion face frequent water shortages due to a lack of infrastructure.

Many of the applications of fresh and otherwise potable water such as landscaping and irrigation — don’t necessarily need to be done with fresh drinking water. A crop isn’t going to wither and die just because the water irrigating it was used before to wash laundry or dishes.

Current wastewater treatment techniques aren’t designed to create potable water, though according to recent research, the process and current technology level mean it is safe to do so. Some of the cities, like San Diego in California, are planning to create at least one-third of the city’s drinking water supplies from recycled wastewater by 2035. This can help to protect the environment, both by keeping the people living there safe, as well as preventing water scarcity that can cause additional problems. The challenge here isn’t in creating potable drinking water it lies in changing the public perception surrounding recycled wastewater.

Prevents Disease

Most often in rural areas, there is more chance of wastes like human and animal faeces may get mixed with freshwater bodies. More than 100 dangerous and highly transmissible bacteria and viruses are surviving in these wastes, anyone might get infected who encounter them. Some of the most dangerous pathogens include - Typhoid fever, Cholera, Hepatitis A, Rotavirus, Norwalk agent virus, Helminthes (worms of various types)

 While these viruses will not multiply or replicate without a host body to occupy, under certain circumstances, the existing viral or bacterial loads can survive outside the body, often long enough to infect anyone who might encounter it.

Wastewater treatment, in this case, protects the environment primarily by protecting the people who live there. These pathogens are not usually zoonotic meaning they don’t usually transfer between human and animal hosts but untreated waste has the potential to contaminate both food and water supplies.

Reduces Organic Material in Water Supplies

Human waste and animal waste often contains a wealth of nutrients. This makes it both a valuable fertilizer and an environmental hazard. In 2021, in Piney Point, Florida, a massive wastewater pond began leaking into the Gulf of Mexico. The pond itself was holding more than 460 million gallons of wastewater. When the containment wall began to leak and eventually breach it dumped a lot of that wastewater right into the Gulf.

While this leak is a devastating example of this sort of contamination, even something as simple as stormwater runoff can have a negative impact on the environment by introducing organic waste that can cause algae blooms like the red tide as well as other microbiological growth which can devastate fish populations, negatively impact coastlines, and create health concerns for people who live and work near or visit these coastlines. Water treatment specifically wastewater treatment can prevent these nutrients from throwing local ecosystems out of balance.

Protect Our Environment For The Future

There are a few facts that are unavoidable. The human population will continue to grow. The same human population will continue to produce waste. With this in mind, city planners and engineers will need to come up with a plan to manage that waste and often the best way to do that is to turn it into necessary resources like biofuel and inexpensive fertilizer.

Water treatment may be a necessity for human life, but it is just as necessary for the preservation of the environment that humans call home. Preventing human waste from contaminating the environment will help to preserve these ecosystems for generations to come or, at the very least, lessen the impact of humans on their home planet.

 

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