Waste Water Management in the Philippines :: essays research papers

I. INTRODUCTIONThis report aims to discuss and to enrich the readers drive inledge on the proper desludging and disposal of waste accumulated from infective armoured combat vehicles. The learning gathered here is vital as it provides a culture of ken to everyone on how wastewater is disposed of. Wastewater comes from everywhere from our residences to our workplaces, even national places. Filipinos as we are, have been known to be hygienic yet we know little of what happens when our employ water is flushed to the drain until its carried saturnine to treatment plants. It is imperative that we, as citizens, must have an idea on how the whole process works and how beneficial/ detrimental it is to the people and to our environment. ahead we continue with this paper, we must define both(prenominal) of the important terms used in this report. A Septic Tank is a watertight container which receives the venting of a plumbing system. It was designed and constructed toseparate solid s from the pellucid digest the native matter and allow the liquid waste to discharge in a storm drain. It is used to provide a storage place so as to give opportunity for the bacteria to reduce all solids to liquid form, and to provide a breeding place to increase the number of bacteria to accelerate the decomposition of solids. Desludging is the process of removing or vacuuming the septic tank content. The septic tank content or Septage, is the combination of scum (masss that floats on the tank surface), sludge (solids that settled on the bottom) and liquid pumped out from a filled-up septic tank.II. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY (REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE)In August 1997, the Ayala-led capital of the Philippines Water Company took over the East partition of Metro manilla from the government-owned Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System through a 25-year subsidisation agreement, while the Lopez-led Maynilad Water Services took over the West Zone. According to some studies befo re this study was made, near 76 percent of the water proviso for Metro Manila comes from the Angat Reservoir, with the rest of the supply coming from the Ipo and La Mesa Watersheds and from groundwater. The Ipo and La Mesa Watersheds contribute about 14 percent and seven percent of the total supply, respectively, while only about three percent comes from groundwater. Only three percent of the East Zone is connected to the sewerage system, which also is connected to the treatment plant.