Published by David Long
With climate change such a huge issue nowadays, how can we, as designers of water supply system tackle or not worsen the present situation?
THE NEW PARADIGM FOR WASTEWATER-PROCESSING / WASTEWATER-RECYCLING
We suggest that it’s time for our industry, our governments and our municipal utilities to see the solutions for our water shortages and water quality: a wastewater system that totally eliminates all organic wastewater sludge (the number one contaminant on this planet) and RECYCLES the wastewater effluent to be 100% re-usable and even potable!
The only system that does that: (a) has recently received its U.S. Patent approval; and (b) has been manufacturing these systems for the U.S. Military (Special Forces) for base camps in Iraq and Afghanistan, Navy EOD & Seals, and oil and gas offshore drilling operations for almost 10 years : the Global Water Group (Dallas, TX.) “WWR” (Wastewater-and Wastewater Recycling) technology.
In the simplest terms, what makes the Global WWR System so different, so good and so needed is that:
(1) At the end of the day, all of the organic sludge shall have been eliminated with no organic sludge required to be physically removed or disposed of; and
(2) 100% of the effluent shall meet the qualities required for re-use: even potability.
Global Water has been manufacturing water systems, primarily for the U.S. Military, since 1990. During these 28 years it has been a niche business with systems deployed to five continents and over 40 countries. Now Global is ready to provide municipal systems which will be the water solutions for the next century. Global has developed a Public Private Partnership financing concept to fund most new municipal water systems without increasing current water rates and without requiring new municipal bonds. Global’s modular building technology makes systems faster to build and install, easier to operate and easier to maintain.
The best way to see the scope of these systems and Global’s patents: www.globalwater.com .
Alan M. Weiss. President,
Global Water Group,
Dallas, TX 75247
Published by Alan Weiss
We can simply increase the total volume in storage region by region with a view to supply the environment and civil demand consistently. More water is becoming available with the melting of the Ice caps and so it real is as simple as retaining more rain fall and increasing water storage capacities. And we can achieve this with CDP systems.
Published by Kerry Frost, Watering Pipe limited
There several ways to tackle this:
Civil engineering : the compulsory set-up of buffer stock infrastructures for storing clean water and for collecting floods water is integrated in our W2AREX tool https://www.pranasustainablewater.ch/en/advantages/index.php
Economy : productions should be produced and consumers where it makes sense, for example producing flowers in a water scarce region and export those water intensive flowers should not happen
Published by Valerie Issumo, Designer of the W2AREX, WasteWater EXchange
On Climate Change
Khalidullin Oleg
Climate degradation is a single problem for the whole planet and it is useless to look for any local causes of natural disasters, heavy rainfall or drought. The Paris Agreements of 2015 call for a reduction in the emission of carbon dioxide. This is not a proven assumption. There are no convincing arguments for the direct dependence of the increase in the level of the oceans on the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere. "Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation," the need for which, 750 experts say, lead to humility with climate change. This leads to a distraction of humanity from finding out the true causes of climate change, the loss of time, to a catastrophe. Attempts to reduce fuel combustion are certainly necessary, but they are microscopic in performance.
As a result of human activity, the functions of the main part of the water have changed. Water at every moment of its movement must fulfill its labor mission - to go the way programmed by nature - to supply biota, mineral and organic substances, and clean it, to escape into the atmosphere with the moisture of breathing, transpiration and other excretions of living organisms. Man destroys this link. Water comes with precipitation and returns to the atmosphere by artificial evaporation from arable land, asphalt, reservoirs, dumps. In total, people took from nature 63% of the inhabited land (data of 2015) for these purposes, each hectare of which contained 20 tons of underground living creatures. These are microbes, worms, and so on living creatures that, in symbiosis with plants and terrestrial populations, absorb moisture, transform in food chains and exhale purely individual pairs, which we call natural or organic vapors. Human intervention in the circulation of water reduces food chains, and water from asphalt and other destroyed areas evaporates immediately after precipitation. We call these evaporation artificial. Even more artificial fumes are produced by industry and utilities around the world. The total artificial evaporation creates unprecedented volumes of water in the atmosphere, which destroyed the mechanism of atmospheric phenomena, perfected for millions of years. The cyclicity, massiveness and places of precipitation have changed. The melting of glaciers, perhaps, has not changed - this is also an assumption. The new regime of water circulation does not ensure the former accumulation of snow in the Arctic regions. Reduced water path in the clouds and premature precipitation and leads to an increase in the level of the oceans.
Only the all-round and worldwide return to nature of organic fumes and artificial reduction can stop raising the level of the ocean and solve your problems.
Among the measures to reduce artificial fumes should be the total total water saving in everyday life by every person, every enterprise of all branches of agriculture and industry. Reconstruction of all agriculture with the introduction of shallow plowing, drip irrigation, other ways to reduce water consumption. And all this should be done on every scrap of the remaining land around the world and not only on agriculture - in all branches of human life.
One of the most capacious in artificial evaporation are man-made reservoirs. Now the construction of new hydroelectric power stations with the flooding of large areas is increasing everywhere. Full stop of projects and construction of new reservoirs, gradual liquidation of existing for restoration of a historical biota is necessary. There are interesting technical solutions for the conservation of power generation without dams and the accumulation of water above the surface of rivers.
Urgently begin landscaping of roofs and walls of all structures in the world, and the construction of new industries, urban infrastructure and even housing to be moved underground and under water. There are such projects.
Published by Oleg Khalidullin, Свободный исследователь at Free Expert
It isn't a new issue. Water suppliers have always had the responsibility of planning for dry years and having adequate backup water sources for access when the need arose. In addition, the population migration to urban areas has placed greater stress on demand and available water sources. One of the best sustainable approaches is to reprocess wastewater for multiple uses from irrigation, industrial, to drinking water. That makes the water supply much less hostage on the variations and unreliability of weather. The WHO has recent (2017) detailed guidance on direct and indirect potable reuse. Many are moving in that direction in water short areas.
Published by Joseph Cotruvo, President at Joseph Cotruvo & Associates, Water , Environment and Public Health
he issues on climate change is no longer a new discuss because of the changes that we are witness in our environments regarding water supply.However the greatest threat has been the near absence of factors that can turn the issues in favour of providing the water for the teaming population especially in the third world Countries: Policy,Up to date laws including Regulations to allow private participation in the provisions of adequate potable water for the citizenry.We should therefore put measures that can make both the Government and Governed to accept reforms that can impact on the adequate provision of water for our overall interest.
Published by Fidelis Okeke, Director(Hydrology and Groundwater) Enugu State Ministry of Water Resources, Enugu,Nigeria