NED Students Find A Way To Turn Lyari River’s Sewerage Water Into Freshwater. Here’s How .

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NED Students Find A Way To Turn Lyari River’s Sewerage Water Into Freshwater. Here’s How
The intelligent students have found a clever way to do so my dividing the river in 13 sections.
By Eminraja On Aug 9, 2019

• NED students have come up with an innovative way to turn Lyari River’s sewerage system to freshwater.
• The three students plan to divide the river into 13 sections.
• Their solution includes cleaning Lyari’s contaminated water using plants.

Source: SAMAA Digital
Water gives a calming effect to the mind of the person laying eyes in the coherently flowing waves. However, the same water can become a stream of injecting diseases and giving birth to countless health implications when turned into a garbage dump.

Lyari’s river met the same unfortunate fate. Polluted with plastic and toxic chemicals, it not only needs to be urgently addressed but also a solution is needed as the health threats being posed by it. According to a recent study, the destroying marine life, poisoning the food chain and negatively impacting the lives of hundreds of thousands of people residing along the channel,

However, students of NED University’s architecture and planning department have proposed a simple, implementable and practical solution to turn Lyari river’s sewerage water into freshwater.

We have discovered a solution to treat Lyari River’s contaminated water by using plants,” said one of the students, Mashood, while speaking to a local news source.

Dividing the river into 13 sections is a solution to the problem:
He explained that along with his friends Fatima and Maheen, their solution includes dividing the river into 13 sections.

“We have calculated the area by the help of remote sensors and have marked the open area available around Lyari River,” he said while speaking to the said source.

“According to our calculation, there are 650 acres of open area land along the river. To plant trees, we further divided this area into 13 acres of small areas to work on.”

He added that for 13 acres of small spaces, they will be required to place 10 acres of wetland systems.

“One wetland system will have 2,000 to 6,000 plants which will treat three miles per gallon of water in a day,” Mashood said.

“The plants have the potential to treat sewerage water and turn it into fresh water,” said Fatima, Mashood’s companion on the project.

“We will be planting some indigenous species of plants, such as cattails and duckweeds all across the Lyari River to get it cleaned.”

She added that all the plants are locally available in Pakistan as well. The further said that if Pakistan starts selling this treated water to industries, it can generate a profit of Rs. 18 million per year.

This wetland project is also being implemented in Karachi’s Aziz Bhatti Park. The students have appealed the government of Sindh to fund their plan. The estimated cost is around Rs 9.5 million.

 

[ARMalik]

What I am about to say maybe offensive to some but it is the truth. Only a very dumb country would pollute its own rivers like this. Rivers are the life lines and to pollute your own rivers like this is polluting and killing yourselves.

There are plenty of Recycling water technologies which can be utilized. For example, I deal with Reverse Osmosis Water infrastructure which converts water containing sewer and chemicals into Drinking water grade water. But when you have such dumb arse idiots like NS, Zardari and other absolute shi.tters sitting in this country, what else can you expect but destruction.

 

[Kabira]

What I am about to say maybe offensive to some but it is the truth. Only a very dumb country would pollute its own rivers like this. Rivers are the life lines and to pollute your own rivers like this is polluting and killing yourselves.

There are plenty of Recycling water technologies which can be utilized. For example, I deal with Reverse Osmosis Water infrastructure which converts water containing sewer and chemicals into Drinking water grade water. But when you have such dumb arse idiots like NS, Zardari and other absolute shi.tters sitting in this country, what else can you expect but destruction.

We have installed 5 stage reverse osmosis filter in our homes. It doesnt cost much tbh, Rs12k. Much cheaper then buying bottles.

What I have noticed more then money the real problem is lack of awareness. Otherwise majority of Pakistanis can easily afford water filter.

 

[My-Analogous]

We have installed 5 stage reverse osmosis filter in our homes. It doesnt cost much tbh, Rs12k. Much cheaper then buying bottles.

What I have noticed more then money the real problem is lack of awareness. Otherwise majority of Pakistanis can easily afford water filter.

Please guide me also so that i play my part too. What are your sources osmosis filter. How many years you are using and what is breakdown ratio

 

[newb3e]

We have installed 5 stage reverse osmosis filter in our homes. It doesnt cost much tbh, Rs12k. Much cheaper then buying bottles.

What I have noticed more then money the real problem is lack of awareness. Otherwise majority of Pakistanis can easily afford water filter.

how does it work?
capacity of system?power consumption?filter cost or any other maintainace?

we have destroyed our ground water i i dont remeber correctly but i was reading a report that 80% of Pakistans grounds water has arsanic in it! and is not safe for drinking

 

[Kabira]

how does it work?
capacity of system?power consumption?filter cost or any other maintainace?

we have destroyed our ground water i i dont remeber correctly but i was reading a report that 80% of Pakistans grounds water has arsanic in it! and is not safe for drinking

Power consumption not much, 12w motor that work for few min to fill up the tank of 10liter. Filters cost few hundred rupees. Out of 5 filters only first few need to be changed after few months. The last one can last year or more. Apart from that one need to clean tank after every year or two with anti-bacteria solution.

Its perfect to use filter for ground water.

Please guide me also so that i play my part too. What are your sources osmosis filter. How many years you are using and what is breakdown ratio

I brought it from shop in Gujrat. Though one can order through Daraz and some other websites selling online in Pakistan. Just make sure to buy version with motor. Because usually water pressure is low in Pakistan.

 

[newb3e]

Power consumption not much, 12w motor that work for few min to fill up the tank of 10liter. Filters cost few hundred rupees. Out of 5 filters only first few need to be changed after few months. The last one can last year or more. Apart from that one need to clean tank after every year or two with anti-bacteria solution.

Its perfect to use filter for ground water.



I brought it from shop in Gujrat. Though one can order through Daraz and some other websites selling online in Pakistan. Just make sure to buy version with motor. Because usually water pressure is low in Pakistan.

thankyou for sharing your experience and info one more thing do you get water tested regularly from lab?

 

[Kabira]

thankyou for sharing your experience and info one more thing do you get water tested regularly from lab?

Nope, I have TDS meter to compare filtered water with ground water. Ground water is much cleaner then river water filled with chemicals etc And same process is used to filter river water for drinking but just in much bigger scale. This filter is only for home use.

 

[newb3e]

Nope, I have TDS meter to compare filtered water with ground water.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41002005

does RO clear arsanic from ground water? and how can you be sure that it doing it job

i might be wrong but tds meter shows content (organic or inorganic) orher than water but what about arsenic?

 

[Kabira]

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41002005

does RO clear arsanic from ground water? and how can you be sure that it doing it job

i might be wrong but tds meter shows content (organic or inorganic) orher than water but what about arsenic?

Yes it remove arsenic from ground water. TDS is handy tool but not comparable to Lab test.

 

[Sabretooth]

A plan has been devised which is brilliant. Now when is the implementation because that is a more important step otherwise this will remain just a presentation.

 

[Cookie Monster]

We have installed 5 stage reverse osmosis filter in our homes. It doesnt cost much tbh, Rs12k. Much cheaper then buying bottles.

What I have noticed more then money the real problem is lack of awareness. Otherwise majority of Pakistanis can easily afford water filter.

If u consider the cost of healthcare then that 12k seems an even more miniscule expense. There are plenty of ppl unaware of the health problems that arise from drinking contaminated water. There should be some sort of drive or campaign by a non profit organization that gets various water samples from different drinking water reservoirs(like rivers, lakes, underground water, etc.) around the country...test it...and publish results for all to see.

 

[ARMalik]

A industrial size water plant serving about 10,000 Customer, is typically sized to recycle and produce about 1-Million Liters of water daily. From a financial perspective, the break even point sits around US $1 per 1000/litres of water. This dollar figure can be reduce if the RO plant is serving much more customers.

The dumb rulers of Pakistan and the dumb so called "Deep State" have no clue, and are killing the country through their dumb decisions.

 

[fitpOsitive]

NED Students Find A Way To Turn Lyari River’s Sewerage Water Into Freshwater. Here’s How
The intelligent students have found a clever way to do so my dividing the river in 13 sections.
By Eminraja On Aug 9, 2019

• NED students have come up with an innovative way to turn Lyari River’s sewerage system to freshwater.
• The three students plan to divide the river into 13 sections.
• Their solution includes cleaning Lyari’s contaminated water using plants.

Source: SAMAA Digital
Water gives a calming effect to the mind of the person laying eyes in the coherently flowing waves. However, the same water can become a stream of injecting diseases and giving birth to countless health implications when turned into a garbage dump.

Lyari’s river met the same unfortunate fate. Polluted with plastic and toxic chemicals, it not only needs to be urgently addressed but also a solution is needed as the health threats being posed by it. According to a recent study, the destroying marine life, poisoning the food chain and negatively impacting the lives of hundreds of thousands of people residing along the channel,

However, students of NED University’s architecture and planning department have proposed a simple, implementable and practical solution to turn Lyari river’s sewerage water into freshwater.

We have discovered a solution to treat Lyari River’s contaminated water by using plants,” said one of the students, Mashood, while speaking to a local news source.

Dividing the river into 13 sections is a solution to the problem:
He explained that along with his friends Fatima and Maheen, their solution includes dividing the river into 13 sections.

“We have calculated the area by the help of remote sensors and have marked the open area available around Lyari River,” he said while speaking to the said source.

“According to our calculation, there are 650 acres of open area land along the river. To plant trees, we further divided this area into 13 acres of small areas to work on.”

He added that for 13 acres of small spaces, they will be required to place 10 acres of wetland systems.

“One wetland system will have 2,000 to 6,000 plants which will treat three miles per gallon of water in a day,” Mashood said.

“The plants have the potential to treat sewerage water and turn it into fresh water,” said Fatima, Mashood’s companion on the project.

“We will be planting some indigenous species of plants, such as cattails and duckweeds all across the Lyari River to get it cleaned.”

She added that all the plants are locally available in Pakistan as well. The further said that if Pakistan starts selling this treated water to industries, it can generate a profit of Rs. 18 million per year.

This wetland project is also being implemented in Karachi’s Aziz Bhatti Park. The students have appealed the government of Sindh to fund their plan. The estimated cost is around Rs 9.5 million.

Let me predict, that students will soon leaving for their masters to some western country, most probably they will do their PhD also from there. Then they will find a job there, and will live happily ever after.
Toxic water in Lyari naddi, however, will keep flowing, as is.

 

[jupiter2007]

NED Students Find A Way To Turn Lyari River’s Sewerage Water Into Freshwater. Here’s How
The intelligent students have found a clever way to do so my dividing the river in 13 sections.
By Eminraja On Aug 9, 2019

• NED students have come up with an innovative way to turn Lyari River’s sewerage system to freshwater.
• The three students plan to divide the river into 13 sections.
• Their solution includes cleaning Lyari’s contaminated water using plants.

Source: SAMAA Digital
Water gives a calming effect to the mind of the person laying eyes in the coherently flowing waves. However, the same water can become a stream of injecting diseases and giving birth to countless health implications when turned into a garbage dump.

Lyari’s river met the same unfortunate fate. Polluted with plastic and toxic chemicals, it not only needs to be urgently addressed but also a solution is needed as the health threats being posed by it. According to a recent study, the destroying marine life, poisoning the food chain and negatively impacting the lives of hundreds of thousands of people residing along the channel,

However, students of NED University’s architecture and planning department have proposed a simple, implementable and practical solution to turn Lyari river’s sewerage water into freshwater.

We have discovered a solution to treat Lyari River’s contaminated water by using plants,” said one of the students, Mashood, while speaking to a local news source.

Dividing the river into 13 sections is a solution to the problem:
He explained that along with his friends Fatima and Maheen, their solution includes dividing the river into 13 sections.

“We have calculated the area by the help of remote sensors and have marked the open area available around Lyari River,” he said while speaking to the said source.

“According to our calculation, there are 650 acres of open area land along the river. To plant trees, we further divided this area into 13 acres of small areas to work on.”

He added that for 13 acres of small spaces, they will be required to place 10 acres of wetland systems.

“One wetland system will have 2,000 to 6,000 plants which will treat three miles per gallon of water in a day,” Mashood said.

“The plants have the potential to treat sewerage water and turn it into fresh water,” said Fatima, Mashood’s companion on the project.

“We will be planting some indigenous species of plants, such as cattails and duckweeds all across the Lyari River to get it cleaned.”

She added that all the plants are locally available in Pakistan as well. The further said that if Pakistan starts selling this treated water to industries, it can generate a profit of Rs. 18 million per year.

This wetland project is also being implemented in Karachi’s Aziz Bhatti Park. The students have appealed the government of Sindh to fund their plan. The estimated cost is around Rs 9.5 million.

This not a new invention. There are many ways to filter the water naturally using plants and stones/pebbles.

We need a new Water conservation policy.

Government must take these steps to implement this policy.

1. Media (Print media, TV/Radio, Social media) campaign to conserve water.
2. New technology for gray and black water treatment plant.
3. Work on Water reservoirs and rain harvesting system.
4. More than half of the irrigation water is wasted due to poorly managed irrigation system and inadequate water infrastructure.
5. Money for Bhasha dam should collected and building should start soon.
6. We also need small water storage dams countrywide on a fast track basis. We have a potential to build 800 small dams/water reservoirs. There is a immediate need to build 100 dams in Punjab, 60 in Sindh, 40 in KPK and 30 in Balochistan.
7. We can build underground and above ground water reservoirs, reservoirs with floating wetlands can be introduce to prevent water evaporations. Qanat system or canal system can be used to distribute water to remote areas
8. For the coastal areas in Sindh and Balochistan, Government need to introduce Newest desalination technology.
9. Karachi needs a mega desalination plant. Also, since Zardari is going to build a new city zulfiqarab in Sindh coastal area, there should also be a desalination plant.