Every Drop Counts

What is once destroyed, sometimes can be built again. Imagine living in a world without water - knowing that from the smallest creature that has ever existed to the biggest ones – what could happen? We’ve seen a lot of children (even ourselves) being potty about water because it makes them happy, disregarding the fact that they are or might not be trained to conserve water. Remember when we didn’t care about what becomes of the water we played with? The water we accidentally or intentionally spilled? What if water – just water – is the only thing that could fix everything? How careful would we be? What if the water that is once perfect and got destroyed could go back to how beautiful it was before?

This is how DLSUD do it.

Situated at the back of the old CEAT building, all waste waters that come from the campus are treated here at De La Salle University – Dasmariñas’ Sewage Treatment Plant. Although only waters coming from the University’s west side campus are only brought here and waste waters from the east side is soon to be constructed according to Mr. Dinglasan, the one who explained and shared.

Pipes carrying waste waters are then brought to the plant to be treated by air. The air treatment or Aeration tank, as what they call it, is responsible for the not-so-stinky smell of the STP. Large objects are withdrawn. Oil and water are also being segregated. Dirt particles are collected by adding other chemicals to the water. Accumulating all the dirt then later becomes heavy enough to sink at bottom. Waters on top sometimes solidifies and when that happens, the chamber cleans it so that the tubes will not be clogged and won’t overflow. Solidified waters are then brought to the last chamber which dissolves it and converts and joins other liquid. The process is then repeated until it becomes clean. Chlorination is the last step, where the waters are disinfected making the waters Class C which is suitable for drinking. The final treated waters are then released to the rivers, just beside the site. 

Using the sewage treatment plant, they clean the water coming from the sewage of the university so that dirty waters will be clean again and can be used for watering plants and if the water is totally 100% clean it can be use drinking waters. The main reason why they clean this waters is to prevent polluting the river which can be harmful for Mother Earth. Sewage water or waste water treatment makes unusable water usable again. The benefits on this treatment depends on the nature of contamination of the water. Water sources are increased because unusable water can be used again reducing the consumption of water from natural sources. New research and improvements are being made to make all kinds of waste usable. These waste water treatments removes diseases and other potentially harmful substances from the water that can enter other water sources that will affect other living things. Because of these water waste treatment jobs are created. These water treatment facilities reduce water pollution and help the environment.