Clean water in Australia

Sanitation

Sanitation is a way of promoting health by preventing the hazards of waste to come in contact with human beings through hygienic means. It is important to have hygienic measures and water management to keep the water in Australia clean and to keep the people healthy. With the right hygienic practices and water management, the spread of diseases can decrease, or even better, prevented. Simply by washing your hand before you eat is one of the most important hygienic practices that people should not miss to do.

Water Management

For a healthier lifestyle away from diseases, water management is an essential thing to do. Water management is not as simple as you think. It includes the right treatment and disposal of the water in your house that you have already used and the wastewater that comes from sewages. Water management also involves putting up drains to direct the floodwater coming from rain or storm.

Water industry

The Australian water industry is providing clean and healthy water by doing the proper water treatment. They are doing a great job in implementing these healthy measures. The tap water in Australia meets high standards of health and safety making it very safe to drink. Australians also have access to water for flushing the toilet in their homes. Pipes brings the water in the houses for laundry, bathing and other domestic purposes, then it is also brought out of the house vie pipes. Human wastes are also brought to proper places like the sewer or the septic tank by simply touching the right handles.

Water Analysis

To know how clean the water is, water analysis comes into play. This is how important water analysis is. It can determine how much bacteria is present in water. Through water analysis, people can determine whether or not a certain body of water is safe for consumption or aquatic life. There are different kinds of analytic procedures that must be followed to get the right results. This way, it would be easier for people to determine which type of water is safe and which water is not. Here are the methods used in Water analysis:

• The Iodometric Method.  This is the most reliable way to determine the quantity of dissolve oxygen in water, whether this be a waste water or natural water. By analyzing the dissolved oxygen in a certain body of water, it will be easier for people to determine how polluted that water is. Temperature is an important factor in sample collection because dissolved oxygen is dependent to temperature.
• The Chloride Ion Concentration by Titration. This is also known as the Mohr’s Method. This is important in knowing the chloride ion concentration in relation with clean water. The chemical reaction between chloride molecules and silver nitrate in water is an important part in this type of analysis. The pH of the water sample is also very important for this method.
• The Colorimetric Phosphate Determination. In this method small amounts of phosphates are placed to some supplies of water. Ammonium molybdate reagent and spectrophotometer are also used in this method.