ABSTRACT

In many small to medium sized communities, convert and on site septic thank / absorption trench systems do not provide adequate waste water treatments and hence cause significant environmental damage to the local water resource. Consequently, many such communities look to alternative forms wastewater treatment and collection for communities. Under the bio-water concept, wastewater and putrescence waste from each household in the community undergoes enhances primary treatment on site using a biolytic filter. The filtrate can there be reused locally, with the balance pump via a small box communed reticulation network to a central  treatment / storage facility.