Water and Sanitation
by James Pogue
On our space station, we will need to find some way to keep our new creation sanitary. We will need to expose of pollutants properly and efficiently. I will go on to explain the way that our space station plans to take care of the dilemmas of keeping all of the sea, land, and air sanitary.
In our space station we plan to use the Joint Water Pollution Control Plant used in the Los Angeles County to purify our water
(click on the button at the bottom of this page to see a diagram and explanation of this treatment plant). This plant seemed to be the most logical solution for our space station for it provides fresh water to over 3.5 million people in the county. It also proves to be an efficient process for cleaning the water because in the end it provides not only fresh water, but separates the waste for use as composting material. Then, the clean water can be recirculated into the seas and homes on our space station.The liquid waste that is produced daily on our space station, is separated in the water treatment process and then used in either composting, land application, or landfilling. But the waste dilemma dealing with everyday trash isn’t so easy to solve. We will need garbage trucks, recycling trucks, landfills, and recycling centers. Once a week the trucks will come around. The recycling center will pick up glass, tin, and plastic. The garbage trucks will pick up the rest. Then, the recyclable objects will be taken to the centers and melted down to be reused, where as the garbage will be taken to the landfills.
There remains yet one more problem - air pollution. In our space station, we will need to have air filters. These air filters will have to filter the air by taking out all of the carbon dioxide and other pollutants in the air and make it fresh and clean. The air can then be recirculated to the people living on our space station quickly and efficiently.
In conclusion, our space station will have a very clean water flow and air supply. I hope that the problems brought forward were properly answered to meet all regulations and to just plain work as valid solution.