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TNW ENVIRONMENTAL |
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WETLAND WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT |
| Cleaning
Waste Water - Resons for cleaning
your waste water if you are a landowner |
| Water is the
life force of People and their planet,
Earth. The approach of TNW Environmental
to any new development is to assess
the water requirements and potential
water sources for both the lodge as
well as for the local communities
in each development region. |
- To keep the soil alive and prevent
stagnation and death of microbial
activity.
- To keep our watercourses alive,
flowing and oxygenated.
- To respect the water we do have.
- To keep our groundwater as free
as possible from toxic intervention.
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Methods of treating Waste Water |
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Septic tanks:
Conventional bioreactors, blowers,
dissolved oxygen and biomass -
wonderful systems, expensive to
construct and energy intensive.
Anaerobic biodigestors:
Great for harvesting gas to cook
on, but ineffective in treating
e.Coli which require oxygen for
breakdown.
Alternative
primary treatment systems:
peat sogfilters, Lilliputs and
Biolytix.
Reedbeds:
Potentially carbon-neutral ecosystems
comprised of indigenous wetland
plants.
Flowforms:
Beautiful sculptural forms that
oxygenate water and inhibit growth
of algae. |
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| Waterlove
Projects |
| Waterlove Projects
is a Cape Town-based business that
works with constructed reedbeds to
clean water either as a primary treatment
for sewage and grey water or as a
secondary treatment for more densely
polluted water e.g. wine cellar waste.
The water exiting our systems can
be safely discharged into the environment
at this ecologically fragile time
or it can be recycled back into the
community, especially where water
shortages are a daily reality. |
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| Our reedbeds
are affordable, beautiful, healthy
and add an abundance of bio-diverse
life forms to any system. We work
alongside experienced water engineers
and organisations intending to make
a success of their green technologies.
Various man-made and natural solutions
are chosen to alleviate toxic build-up
and stagnancy in the soil, in plants
and in water, above and below the
ground. |
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is first to mimic nature's healing
ways and second, to accelerate and
enhance the process. An ecosystem
is created with at least a dozen plants,
each chosen for their specific cleaning
function or supportive role. Discharged
water is used to irrigate gardens
and crops, as it fulfills DWEA's GS
(the Department of Water and Environmental
Affairs' General Standard), or fill
flush toilets. Further treatment is
required to ensure safe drinking water. |
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We approach each new job according
to its specific requirements and use
varying tools to enable the used water
to return to natural balance and optimal
functioning / peak frequency. We have
worked mostly on wine farms in the
Western Cape as accreditation processes
have put them under intense pressure
in recent years, but we believe that
this gentler approach to waste water
management can be applied to many
different scenarios from farmsteads
to factories and mines and in both
upmarket housing developments and
communities of people who live without
proper housing and sanitation. |
