We are running a WASH project which is suffering hugely due to lack of water supply.
I ask Water Network members for your advice on simple technological innovations to treat the contaminated water from the river source for urban needs, without having a river plant.
Which simple and affordable technologies can we implement to treat river water both for drinking and municipal use?
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Without a substantial water analysis, it´s not easy to suggest you a simple solution. Normally we use for river water or lateral storage water the following simple solution
sand trap / sedimentation
aeration
filtration step 1 with gravel or sand filter
filtration step 2 with activated carbon filter
disinfection
For more information please feel free to contact me directly.
a gravity operated system, such as the sky hydrant micro-filtration unit would be effective, although will depend on the influlent quality of the ewater that requires treatment
Depending on the river bed geology, the river bed can be used as an extremely effective and natural filter, The abstracted sub river bed water is immediately available for human consumption and numerous other applications. Our technology, TELESIS, is designed for this application. Please feel free to contact me on ron.daniel@composium-group.com for further details.
As you said the river water is contaminated we should evaluate its characteristics and then accordingly we need to treat. If it is in the downstream then alkalinity may be one of the problem which can be treated with gypsum. I have developed one Water Quality Index to identify the suitability of water for potable and irrigation use based on National Standards. This tool will help you to identify the contaminants and then accordingly you can treat the same.
Dear David, We sure can help you on affordable technologies that you can implement to treat the river water for drinking and municipal use. Pls. check out our website: https://www.paere.eu/water-purification.html. Best regards, Heiko
DUDE, just put the floe THROUGH P&O traps, being 25mm air gap with 600mm droppers outlet in 3 different chambers, then just remove toxic matter when settled, is cheapest best way always it!.
You said, "DUDE, just put the floe THROUGH P&O traps, being 25mm air gap with 600mm droppers outlet in 3 different chambers, then just remove toxic matter when settled, is cheapest best way always it!."
I could not follow what you wrote. Could you kindly elaborate in details - Thank you
Please test the river water for ss, tds, color, hardness etc.,. If you provide these details then you will get lot of help. Also collect the samples only in a continuous flow.
You can check out what we did at Safe Water and AIDS Project . The Global Giving Link takes you to a project whereby we are drawing water from river Sondu in Western Kenya and through gravity it is filtered using Skyhydrant Filtration after which it is sold to the communities.
Thank you for your information and the link.I wonder if it would work with an Urban contaminated River waters? The Ngong River is at the heart of Mukuru Slums where some of the effluents are from factories and industries.I am planning on water testing of the Ngong river waters to know more about the impurities that may be present and to what extent.
Bonjour C'est incroyable qu'aujourd'hui des gens sensés responsables de vie d'une communauté puissent venir chercher sur un forum une ou des réponses à une telle problématique. Cec i s'approche tout simplement de l'inconscience de la Vie sur terre.
Si la rivière est polluée c'est qu'en amont tout le monde a fait ce que votre communauté va faire: rejeter les eaux consommées/utilisées/souillées dans cette rivière sans qu'elles aient au préalable été épurée.
Les pollutions qui ont contaminé cette rivière:
Les animaux, le ruissellement pluvial, la pollution humaine, la pollution industrielle, la pollution accidentelle, la pollution intentionnelle.
Il me semble que cela fait beaucoup de composants pollueurs à déterminer avant une éventuelle épuration. C'est là que je bannis le mot traitement qui aujourd'hui parle de tout et de rien. Qu'est ce qu'un traitement? traitement médical, traitement de texte, traitement d'épuration.
En fonction du traitement il faudra alors détailler l'outil de traitement. Ces capacités de traitement, ces résultats, ces performances, etc.
Puis chaque traitement devra cibler une pollution, oui mais laquelle? Excréments d'animaux, excréments humains, eaux usées domestiques, lessiviels, le biochimique, le chimique.
Ce qu'il faut savoir c'est qu'à ce jour il n'existe aucun dispositif MIRACLE capable de résoudre une telle problématique. Que des gens désignés pour gérer une communauté ne soient pas en connaissance de tels données me laisse sans voix.
Ensuite il pourra être déterminé l'objectif de l'utilisation de cette eau. Mais comment le gérant, le responsable, l'élu peut-il assurer à ses administrés que la pollution en amont est toujours la même? comment peut-il assurer que cette eau est consommable, potable?
Ce qu'il faut savoir, c'est que la pollution ne se limite pas à la matière flottante, visible, il y a la pollution dissoute, invisible, toxique, et celle là elle est plus grave. Un élu est-il autorisé à contaminer toute sa population uniquement sur l'idée d'un approvisionnement sans garantie?
Une eau potable ne devient pas potable sur un simple coup de baguette magique. Le cycle de nettoyage/potabilité d'une goutte d'eau souillée est long, il passe par de nombreuses phases avant d'arriver au stade ultime de potabilité.
En pompant l'eau de la rivière polluée vous pouvez faire du recyclage de nettoyage uniquement avec le risque de contaminer les zones nettoyées et qu'un jour cette contamination se retrouve dans l'assiette d'un habitant.
On est dans la configuration de crime contre l'humanité. La seule solution c'est déjà d'avoir des actions sur les possibles causes de contamination et de les éliminer. Mais là on est dans un schéma général de connaissance/ suppression des risques de santé de la population.
Hello this is amazing that today ' hui responsible for sensible people of life of a community can pick up on a forum or answers to such problems. CEC i simply approached the unconsciousness of the life on Earth. If the river is polluted it is upstream everyone did what your community will do: reject water consumed/used/stained in this river unless they have first been purified.
Pollution that have contaminated the river
Animals, rain runoff, human pollution, industrial pollution, accidental pollution, intentional pollution. It seems to me that's a lot of polluting to determine before an eventual cleansing components. This is where I banish the word treatment who today talks about everything and nothing. What is treatment? medical treatment, processing, purification treatment. Depending on the treatment then detail the processing tool. These processing capabilities, these results, performance, etc. Then each treatment should target pollution, Yes, but why? Excreta from animals, human waste, wastewater, detergent, the biochemical, chemical. What to know is that so far there was no MIRACLE device capable of solving such problems. People appointed to manage a community be s pa in knowledge of such data leaves me speechless. Then it can be determined the purpose of the use of this water. But how can the owner, the Manager, the one provide to their constituents that the pollution upstream is always the same? How can he ensure that this water is consumable, drinking?
What ' l need to know is that pollution is not limited to floating, visible matter, there is dissolved, invisible, toxic pollution, and that it is more serious. Is an elected official allowed to contaminate its entire population only on the idea of a supply without warranty?A drinking water becomes undrinkable on just one magic wand. Nettoyage.potabilite of a soiled water drop cycle is long, it passes through many phases before arriving at the final stage of potability.
By pumping water from the polluted river you can do recycling of cleaning only with the risk of contaminating the cleaned areas and that someday this contamination is found in the base of a resident. It is in the configuration of a crime against humanity. The only solution has already to have actions on the possible causes of contamination and eliminate them. But here we are in a general pattern of knowledge / removal of population health risk.
En principe vous avez raison. Nous devrions depuis longtemps avoir installé des unités de gestion de bassins versants performants partout, qui guarantissent la sauvegarde de notre ressource eaux depuis la source jusqu'à l'embouchure d'un cours d'eaux pour toutes les utilisations imaginables, humaines et naturelles.
La réalité n'en est pas encore là et nous dépendons donc, même dans des pays bien adiministrés et suffisamment riches pour pratiquement tout se permettre, de traitements d'eau de surface polluée en amont afin de la rendre potable plus en aval. Il n'y a qu'à voir la plupart des fleuves européens, seul source d'eau en quantité suffisante pour les habitants des zones basses de leur bassins versants respectifs. Les ingénieurs ont recours à des passages sousterrains, des traitements par charbon actif etc., un monitoring biologique (poissons, crabes...) les avertissant de tout danger éventuel, afin de protéger les populations servies d'accidents éventuels.
Greetings. We can provide a full solution. We already address many water facilities...lakes.. rivers and treatment sites in the GCC and Asia.
Dubai based. BUT with offices in India Pakistan Egypt Saudi Greece and projects across Africa and Asia
You musnt chlorinate. Kills the ecology. It's impractical to use filtration for a river.
Email me and we can open a discussion providing a scaled set of options. Afordable and realistic. The technology derives from Russian R&D from the 70s and 80s.
We are scientists. I am also an independent DRR consultant.
Garry.
Ps. We have been brought in to advise and propose on the Ganges plus several significant lakes of kms length in India and Pakistan. Then are waking up. Water now is vital for all urbanisation and food security.
Depending on the turbidity of your raw water, one could consider slow sand filtration. If the turbidity is higher than 2 NTU, one can consider using roughing filters upstream of the slow sand filter. This provides quite an easily maintainable treatment system.
