Institutional Waste Water Treatment Using Root – Zone Method

Abstract

Water resources receive pathogens and pollutions from a variety of sources like industrialisation, domestication, cleaning of clothes, washing and bathing of animals. The inadequate water treatment process has resulted in low quality potable water ultimately resulting in health problems. Eichhornia crassipes- water hyacinth plant plays a vital role in treating pollution water.  The collected waste water, Eichhornia crassipes plant treated waste water and filtered wastewater were subjected to different parameters like physico- chemical and biological parameters. In this study after the treatment with Root-Zone method, alkalinity, hardness, chlorides, nitrogen, carbon and sulphates had been reduced in the wastewater. The total solids, dissolved solids and suspended solids are also decreased in the samples.  But, the coliform bacteria were remaining same level. So it was concluded that the treatment of wastewater through Root-Zone Method is the best treatment for the recycling of wastewater.