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Wastewater Management: Optional report

by Okoth Okoth | 03-05-2021 23:25


According to section 42 Kenya¡®s 2010 constitution, every person has a right to clean and healthy environment. The government acknowledges that a healthy environment is crucial to delivering Vision 
2030, which is Kenya¡®s long-term development blueprint. However, one of the greatest challenges of the twenty first century is the incessant of supply of clean drinking water for the millions of the living things all over the world. Therefore there is need to provide the new approach to wastewater management and to 
deal with the issues in an environmentally-conscious manner. Inappropriate or absent wastewater management deteriorates drinking water sources and natural environment and endangers human health. It is a major problem in numerous countries which demands taking appropriate and well considered actions adapted to the specific environment and economic welfare.

Water scarcity can be addressed through improvement of the efficiency of consumptions and seek sustainable alternative sources. Several approaches exist among them efficient and effective wastewater management and reuse to supplement fresh water and keep environment clean. The reuse of wastewater can be a strategy to release freshwater for domestic use, and to improve the quality of river waters used for abstraction of drinking water (by reducing disposal of effluent into rivers). 

Aspects of wastewater management are explored with integrated perspective in that a holistic view of the entire wastewater system is required for proper wastewater management, starting from the wastewater 
generation until the ultimate disposal schemes. The functional elements of integrated wastewater management system are generation, collection, treatment (including sludge treatment) and disposal and reuse. A successful wastewater management decision requires a comprehensive, impartial evaluation of 
wastewater management approaches.