list out a few measures that can be adopted to control the generation of sewage at home????
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# we can use bags made of newspaper instead of plastic .
# we can use biodegradable vegetable waste as a manure for a plants / trees grown in our garden.
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Sewage treatment may also be referred to as wastewater treatment. However, the latter is a broader term which can also refer to industrial wastewater. For most cities, the sewer system will also carry a proportion of industrial effluent to the sewage treatment plant which has usually received pre-treatment at the factories themselves to reduce the pollutant load. If the sewer system is a combined sewer then it will also carry urban runoff (stormwater) to the sewage treatment plant. Sewage water can travel towards treatment plants via piping and in a flow aided by gravity and pumps. The first part of filtration of sewage typically includes a bar screen to filter solids and large objects which are then collected in dumpsters and disposed of in landfills. Fat and grease is also removed before the primary treatment of sewage.Every community should have a way of disposing of sewage so that people, animals and flies cannot touch it. This is called a sewage system.
There are different types of sewage systems which can be described as on-site systems and sewage or effluent systems.
An on-site system is one which treats the sewage in a septic tank so that most of the sewage becomes effluent and is disposed of in an area close to the house or buildings. An example of an on-site disposal system consists of a septic tank and leach drains.
A sewage or wastewater system disposes of the effluent from a community at a central place usually called a sewage lagoon or effluent pond. The sewage can be treated:
in a septic tank at each building
just before the lagoon in a large septic tank or macerator system, or
in the lagoon itself
1 On-site disposal systems
All the liquid waste from the toilet, bathroom, laundry and sink goes into pipes which carry it to a septic tank. The effluent from the tank is then disposed of through effluent disposal drains often referred to as leach or French drains. Both of these methods of disposing of liquid waste are on-site disposal systems. They must be installed and maintained properly.
In these systems, the effluent is soaked into the surrounding soil. Some soils don't allow good soakage such as clay or similar soils; if there are any problems with this disposal system a local government EHO should be consulted to talk about the problem.
On-site disposal systems cannot be installed in all situations. For example, they cannot be installed:
in areas that flood regularly
in areas that have a high water table (that is, where the underground water is close to the surface)
where the amount of wastewater to be disposed of is large
near to drinking water supplies
2 Effluent (wastewater) disposal system
In this method the effluent from the community is carried by large pipes to the lagoon. These pipes serve all the houses and other buildings in the community. The sewage may be either be treated in septic tanks at the houses or buildings or at the lagoon. There are no leach or French drains.
3 Full sewage system
All the sewage from the toilet, shower, laundry and other areas enters waste and sewer pipes directly and is pumped to a lagoon.
There are three types of full sewage system:
The sewage enters the lagoon without treatment
The sewage goes through a series of cutting blades which help break up the solid matter before it enters the lagoon. These blades are called macerators.
The sewage may be treated in a large septic tank just before it enters the lagoon.