Design and Development of Low Cost Treatment for Washing Machine Effluent

One of the most persistent problems of today is water scarcity. It has been estimated that one in three persons will face water scarcity by the year 2025 in India according to International Water Management Institute (IWMI 2013 report) or around 2.7 billion people worldwide by the same time (UN Report 2016). Water resources are abundant, but they are unevenly distributed: 97% of water available on earth is related to the seas and oceans, 2.97% as polar ice caps while the remaining 0.03% is surface waters. In this report we are going to deliberate about one of the water driven activity of day to day life of human being i.e. washing of clothes which requires lot of water and all this water is wasted and gets mixed with other waste water and discarded. The need for increased water requirement for the growing population in the country is generally assumed, without considering whether available water resources could meet these needs in a sustainable manner. The question about from where the extra water is to come, has led to this study. An evaluation of low cost treatment using activated carbon and Nylon rope has been assessed and the result revealed that nylon filter beds which were used instead of dual media filter and activated carbon showed better performance on effluent of washing machine.