Friday, September 7, 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.

Acquaint with factors that affect aquatic quality. There is a wide range of aspects that affect the quality of water. This includes dissolved oxygen, detergents, garbage, runoffs, sedimentation, and erosion. Environmental causes include sedimentation and runoffs whereas the rest are as a result of human activities. This includes litter, industrial garbage, pesticides, household and commercial cleaning.

Consider the coagulation and flocculation procedure. This is the first procedure in commercial marine treatment. Positively charged chemicals are added dissolved in the aquatic and neutralize the positive charges of all dissolved particles. This leads to the formation of large particles called flocs that can be removed using the setting or filtration methods.

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.

Check the filtration procedure. The filtration process follows sedimentation. Marine is passed through a filter which holds all the solid components that have remained through the sedimentation procedure. They include items such as crushed anthracite particles in sand and gravel. This procedure should be handled well to make the disinfection procedure easy to handle. The filters are cleaned using a reverse osmosis procedure after a lot of particles have accumulated.

Acquaint with the disinfection process. Municipalities can use different measures to disinfect the aquatic that they intend to supply. Chlorine is widely used in such consideration due to its effectiveness. However, other measures are considered when handling borehole marine and marine from large bodies. Such kind of marine has a lot of impurities due to sedimentation and pollution.

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.

Teach the consumers on domestic treatment. Consumers should use their measures as well to make even though the supplied aquatic is safe for their usage. They should consider measures such as distillation, softening and filtration. Special management can be made to accommodate household members with poor immune systems and improve its taste as well.




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