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Oct 07, 2014 News
In a matter of two weeks, the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) will be launching its newly installed $31M water treatment plant, according to the institution’s Chief Executive officer (CEO), Michael Khan.
During a recent interview, Khan said that with the treatment plant, the hospital will be able to save money in the long term.
“We will save money in the future because we wouldn’t be spending on purchasing water for the entire hospital anymore,” Khan related.
The treatment plant, which was acquired early this year, has a 5000 litre per hour water purification system.
It can complete more than one cycle per day, depending on the demand for purified water.
It is also a multi-stage purification system, according to the hospital’s Director of Facilities Management, Kamal Haricharran.
Haricharran said that the institution will be utilizing the water from its processing plant in two weeks since “some minor things” are still to be done on the plant.
He added that the Food and Drugs Department gave the institution the green light to distribute drinking water to the various wards effective a month ago.
This was after a number of tests were done on the quality of water being processed by the plant.
Haricharran explained that there are several stages in treating the raw water (water coming directly from the Guyana Water Inc. (GWI)’s lines).
He said that there is a holding tank to store the raw water and there is another tank to store purified water.
Haricharan explained that once the water leaves the raw water holding tank, it passes through the sand filters, carbon filters, softening particle filters, reverse osmosis and ultra violet filtration before it goes into the holding tank.
According to the Director, the sand filters are the main workhorses of the water purification system.
When the source water seeps through these filters, it is cleaned in two different ways.
First, the sand works like a sieve, straining out harmful bacteria.
Clean sand is negatively charged and works like a magnet attracting positively charged particles in the water.
These in turn attract more negative particles, which makes it even harder for bad bacteria to pass through the filter.
The more junk the filter collects, the easier it is to strain unwanted particles from the water.
Carbon filtering uses chemical adsorption to remove contaminants and impurities from the water, while water softening is the removal of calcium and magnesium in raw water.
Kaieteur News was told that the water will be bottled at the plant and taken to the different wards.
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