Sanitary Disposal of Waste Water | How To Control Water pollution?

Floor

The flooring should be pucka (solid) to avoid cracks, crevices and seepage. Also, it should not be slippery leading to any fall or injury. Flooring of mud and clay are not healthy as harmful organisms can live and thrive in the cracks and crevices.

Walls and Ceiling

They should be pucka (solid) and strong so that water do not seep in. They should be sturdy enough to protect from heat, cold and rain.

Sanitary Facility

A House can be considered complete only when it has sanitary facility.

Bathroom

Every house must be having a closed bathing facility. In absence of its personal hygiene, especially of woman is highly compromised. It leads to emergence of number of the diseases related with the poor personal hygiene.

Kitchen

A separate cooking place be in the house. Kitchen should be Properly well-lit and ventilated. Fuel that generates lots of smokes and gases e.g. wood sticks should never be used. LPG, kerosene can be used. In case of use of wood as a fuel, a smokeless Chula must be used. These will help in prevention of indoor pollution and so the number of ailments related like asthma and respiratory tract infections, especially in highly vulnerable people, i.e. children and woman.

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Sanitary Disposal of Waste

A house must have arrangement for safe disposal of water and a dustbin with lid to store waste which is generated through daily activities.

A house with the above facilities can be considered house with healthy environment. Analyze the housing situation of your home. Observe your house and find out what facilities are missing. Ensure the steps to make your house to have healthy environment by rectifying them so that the health of yours and your family members are always protected.

Sanitary Disposal of Waste Water

In cities separate drainage lines are provided for disposal of waste water. But in villages and slum areas, this facility is lacking. Because of this waste water generated out of house hold activities like washing, bathing etc. ., get collected around the houses. It looks aesthetically bad. Children play in dirty water. Harmful organisms, insects and rodents grow rampantly in this collection. Thus it creates a great threat to community living around.

'Soak pit' is the useful solution for such situation. With the use of a porous earthen pot, holed cover, gravel of different sizes, water resistant bamboos, mud and clay a soak pit can be created at home. Thus a cheap 'soak pit' helps in sanitary disposal of waste water, prevents collection of waste water and also prevents the breathing of harmful organisms and insects which will improve community health.

Soak pit:

1. Dig 1m x 1m x 1m pit just adjacent to wall of the house. This is the size appropriate for the family with 10 to 15 liter of waste water generation per day.

2. For preparation of soak pit put around 50 buckets of brick bets or little gravels of different sizes. Porous earthen pot with holes the at bottom, cotton wood frames, with leaves, bricks, small amount of cement, gunny bags etc.

3. Fill the pit with gravels and bricks up to the 15 cm depth from the surface. Care should be taken that the soil from the walls do not fall.

4. Put the earthen pot with holed cover directly below the outlet.

5. Fill the remaining 15 cm of the pit with gravel, bricks. Arranged alternatively cotton woods frames with leaves gunny bags again cotton wood frame on it. Then spread mud and finally spread dry soil on the top.

6. The soak pit works on the principles of filtration. So, water is absorbed in the soil and prevents the breeding of mosquitoes and flies etc.