Tips & Tricks for Water Waste

Properly disposing of your water waste is an important part of the environmental impact of your multi-residential building’s water system.

But why is properly disposing of sewage important? According to the UN, “as populations grow and natural environments become degraded, ensuring there are sufficient and safe water supplies for everyone is becoming increasingly challenging. A major part of the solution is to produce less pollution and improve the way we manage wastewater”. As our population grows and becomes more urbanized, more wastewater is produced and the overall pollution load is increasing as a result.

Furthermore, globally 80% of wastewater goes back into the ecosystem without treatment or with insufficient treatment, resulting in 1.8 billion people using contaminated drinking water, which can lead to diseases such as cholera and dysentery.

On a local scale, there are several negative impacts of flushing the wrong things down the toilet.

These include:

• Damages or blockages in your building’s plumbing system, which can potentially cause flooding
• Damage to the city’s sewer pipes
• Damage to treatment plants of wastewater
• Damage to aquatic life that inhabits local lakes and streams