There is a lot of research going on waster water treatment - waste water from textile industries, food industries, tanneries etc., and scores of research articles are being published on novel treatment methods of waste waters.
Immediately, spontaneously any reviewer would ask - "what are you going to do with the waste you have removed? how will you be disposing them?"
I had an opportunity to interact with Prof.Yuh Shan HO, he had come down to NITT as a visiting prof. He went about explaining the above question like this - - - -
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Consider the animal kingdom, you now separate all the animals that are domestic or that are not a potential threat to the humans - now compare this with a waste water system, the waste water is the animal kingdom and you separate the water (the domestic animals). So, now you have a bunch of harmless animals (the purified water) and harmful dangerous animals (the hazardous waste that was in the water).
Now, in this set of harmful animals you will definitely have Tigers and you know that tigers are dangerous and harmful - so do you go and kill all the tigers (or lions etc.,) because they are threatening ? Tigers are harmful so kill them and eradicate them ! - - is this what you do ?
Definitely no !! you take the harmful set of animals and keep them in a cage, or a Zoo or develop an artificial environment like safaris and let these animals roam free there !
Now, come back to our water system - you have now separated the purified water and are left with the waste. Now, what do you do with this waste ? why bother about this when you have what you want - PURE WATER ! take the solid waste and store them in rock solid containers, put all the chromium, lead or any damn waste in a huge container and just keep it in some place - it's not going to disturb anyone. A completely sealed container of chromium is just going to stay there - it will not disturb you ! unless you disturb it !
Why do all the reviewers worry about the disposal of the waste ? my job is to purify the waste water - waste water treatment - now i have given you the pure water - so enjoy it ! why worry a lot about the waste - you can just put it in some container and store it. Or if it can be recycled just go ahead and do it ! There is a huge discipline called solid waste management , so the blokes who do that will take care of the solid waste !
So, worry about the extent of purity that you can get and the amount of waste you are able to extract - the more waste you extract the more pure the water becomes - don't think that you are removing more and more waste and thus generating more and more waste ! you are able to get more and more pure water ! that is a trillion times more important than the waste ! remove the waste and gimme pure water - that's all your job ! how you do it and what you need to do to do that is what your research is all about !
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Well , I surely enjoyed this brief discussion with him !
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Now, why does all this water get polluted? who pollutes them and where does all this waste come from ? - - - The Maharishi
Tigers and Solid Waste !
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Though his argument seemed logical then, there seem to some flaws there.
It's all right to say that the zoo is a safe place to put the tiger. But where's the zoo where you store the waste? You know that a zoo has a cage and will prevent the tiger from causing any danger, but can you say that about any solid waste storage method? If you can say for sure there are methods to safely store waste, then it's not your problem. BUT, if you cannot assure me of that, I have a right to ask you what you will do with the concentrated waste that you create! You can easily say,
"take the solid waste and store them in rock solid containers, put all the chromium, lead or any damn waste in a huge container and just keep it in some place - it's not going to disturb anyone. A completely sealed container of chromium is just going to stay there - it will not disturb you ! unless you disturb it !"
but see how unsure you are. It's like the wildlife warden saying, "ah! don't worry... this tiger will not cause any damage, we will put it somewhere, in just any damn place. It will not disturb anyone" but what he ends up doing is just move it from the current location to another place where it causes the same or worse damage!
Though your point about this being the solid waste management guy's problem is understandable, you cannot simply ignore whatever is technically not your responsibility.
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