Environmental Interventions

Since its existence, Sankalan has been promoting eco-sensitive construction practices in the built space by propagating the use of natural materials which is available in nature, such as soil and wood. Recycling materials such as mine overburden and construction debris to build new structures have been experimented with and is being used extensively wherever possible with the purpose to try reducing the carbon footprint.

Similarly, Water is invaluable for most of the species living on the planet Earth. Societies across the globe consume water for their daily chores and generate massive quantities of wastewater, which is disposed off in the environment to contaminate lakes, rivers, and seas. Hence, treating wastewater at the micro level is the need of the hour. Various technologies are available to treat wastewater at both micro and macro levels. DEWATS is a technology, which can be implemented for a single house, housing colony, or village/city level.

Sankalan has the in-house expertise to design Decentralized Waste Water Treatment Systems.

Decentralized Waste Water Treatment System (DEWATS) is a nature-based technology to treat wastewater without using centralized components/machinery for its functioning. DEWATS being a decentralized approach to treating waste water, its components can be installed near the source of wastewater generation without disturbing the surrounding aesthetics. The system functions using natural bacteria, plants, and gravity with minimal use of electricity thus eliminating the use of deadly chemicals and huge infrastructure for its functioning. The treated water can be used for gardening, toilet flushing, irrigating farms, etc.

The salient features of DEWATS are –

• Eco-friendly
• Easy to use
• Low-maintenance
• Cost-effective
• Can be aesthetically incorporated with the surrounding landscape.
• By-products can be reused

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The main components of DEWATS are –

• The settler
• Anaerobic Baffle Reactor
• Anaerobic Filter
• Horizontal gravel Filter
• Vertical Planted Filter
• Vortex
• Polishing Pond