11/05/2017
In a workshop organized by Asharqia Chamber.
Eng.
Ali Al Hindi, in a workshop organized by Asharqia Chamber, represented by the
Environment Committee on Thursday 11 May 2017, stressed the need to expand
wastewater treatment using wetland technology, regardless of the quality of
this drainage, whether agricultural, industrial or municipal. Feasibility
in utilizing water and facing water pollution.
Al
Hindi said in the workshop, which was chaired by the Chairman of the
Environment Committee in the Chamber Talal Al Rasheed that wetland treatment is
basically an engineering system through which to take advantage of nature to
treat contaminated water, pointing to the existence of several methods
determined by the quality of water flow, whether surface or non surface, as
well as the goal of treatment, is it for agricultural irrigation or for industrial
uses or for natural uses, as well as wetland type.
He
pointed that one of the methods of treatment is the treatment of plants that
absorb some substances and pollutants, saying that the most famous methods of
treatment in wetlands is the treatment of polluted water, whether the plant or
sewage or industrial or even contaminated groundwater, where mixed water
contaminated with clean water, as well as treatment
of plants and conversion of polluted water to the cultivation of some products
containing other value added materials.
Some of the methods used to treated water in wet soils are the use of plants
where different types of aquatic plants are used in wetlands, such as cane
plants, some studies assures that some plants planted in wetlands can enhance oxidation
of oxygen from the roots to remove pollutants.
He
said that some of the materials used in the treatment can be stones or rocks or
dust that hold pollutants and sorting them out of water, and there are several
scientific designs to be used in water treatment.
He
pointed that treatment through wet soil requires a location with a big area of treatment, and
the use of low electrical energy for pumping.
He
pointed to several local and Gulf experiences in this regard, including the experience
of Maaden in the treatment of the water of the aluminum factory where it is
reused for industrial purposes, as well as the treatment of water by the United
Arab Emirates for the cultivation of Salcornia and the production of aviation
fuel, as well as the experience of Sabkhat Al Faisal in Jubail And
a project in Oman to deal with oil mixed waters, all of which are treated in a
wet land way.
