Wilson EHO

Happy New Year to y’all 🙌

✳️Let's discuss Water Reclamation✳️
To define ‘water reclamation’ this is a system for waste water treatment that makes wastewater suitable for reuse ♻️. However, this process is some times referred to as water recycling or water reuse.
However, bringing it to our country Zambia 🇿🇲, Water reclamation can help the country at large to manage floods we experience, water crisis as well as improve agricultural productivity. Below are some of the benefits:

📶Environmental benefits
✅Reduces pollution: when rain water is harvested, and treated for further use, either domestic or industrial, it then reduces on the the amount of pollutants and contaminants e.g disease 🦠 causative agents like Vibrio cholerae that can cause Cholera outbreaks once it enters waterways and people end up consuming contaminated water 💧
It also reduces on the chances of contamination surface water sources like rives, swamps, like etc from chemical such as that from pesticides, metals as well fertilizers
✅Proteects groundwater: What reclamation also protects groundwater water from contamination in a sense that the body aquifers stand as backup when we talk of groundwater use
✅Reduces runoff: When rain water is harvested, it can be stored for multipurpose use which can reduce erosion and flooding
✅Sustains ecosystems: When there is collect and success water reclamation, water quality is well maintained and stream flow in rivers as well as creeks
✅Conserves freshwater: Water reclamation also reduces the amount of freshwater that is diverted from ecosystems

📶Economic benefits
✅Reduces water bills and Saves energy: Water reclamation bring more about economical growth when we talk of resources needed to pump and transport water
✅Increase in agricultural productivity: In terms of water crisis, waste water that was harvested and treated can then be used for agricultural purposes during irrigation projects that will improve the economical situation in terms of food production
✅Reduces the tariffs for treated municipal water
✅Reduces reliance on public water systems

📶Sustainable irrigation benefits
✅ It is suitable for irrigation because it's fluoride and chloramines free
✅Reduces reliance on treated water
✅Reduces soil salt buildup
✅It improves plant growth

📶Improved water security
✅Helps fight water scarcity, especially in drought-prone areas
✅Provides an emergency water supply in case of mains water shortages

📶All in all, natural resources management is very important in a sense that they can be short or long term sustainable, therefore, if we utilise water reclamation and rain water harvesting, as a country we cannot experience water crisis, waterborne diseases, water based and related illnesses or disasters etc.
Let’s add some more to the topic in the comment section 🛜

ℹ️Stay tuned and follow Wilson EHO 👈as we discuss more Environmental Health related topics.
📸Picture credit

Ba with Big Bro Giftito Zambia 🏖

Let’s discuss Sustainable Development using this picture🙌