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Abstract
Water pollution with ammonia and environmental pollution with ceramic
waste has a serious impact, as water contaminated with ammonia affects
humans and animals, as revealed by reports issued by the World Health
Organization and other organizations. Among the risks resulting from water
pollution with ammonia:
• Obtaining a defect in the nervous system.
• Emphysema.
• Kidney damage.
• Increased acidity in patients.
• Hypertension.
• Low fertility and childbearing rates for females, but it does not affect the
fetus.
• Impact on fisheries, as happened recently in the governorates of Beheira
and Kafr El-Sheikh as a result of the high percentage of ammonia and
organic matter in the water.
Also, ceramic waste has a negative impact on humans and the environment,
including:
• Air pollution.
• Asthma.
• Ossification of the lung.
• Lung Cancer.
• Increasing global warming.
The solution lies in employing ceramic waste to manufacture zeolite and
use it to treat water and reduce the proportion of ammonia in it and in liquid
waste in
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general, as it is low cost and available in the environment and yields good
results. The used zeolite was examined by X-ray.
Samples of different concentrations were prepared from the ammonia
solution, and with changing the pH and the amount of zeolite added, and
following the effect at different intervals, the best removal percentage of
ammonia from the liquid waste was reached.
On the ground, this technique was applied in the sewage treatment plant in
the village of Janzour, affiliated to the Birkat El-Sabaa Center, Menoufia
Governorate, and it yielded medical results that appeared in the samples
collected from the outlet of the plant, the adjacent sewage system, and nearby
wells, where the efficiency of the treatment and the quality of this water for use
in agriculture and drinking were measured.
Recommendations:-
• Recycling and benefiting from ceramic waste, especially in the
production of zeolite.
• Employing zeolite to treat and purify water.
• Allocating investment areas for the ceramic industry away from the
residential block.
• Protection of water bodies from sewage and industrial waste.
• Continuous monitoring of water awareness
• Implementation of a network of monitoring wells in the study area.
• Carry out periodic maintenance of treatment plants
• Reusing treated wastewater for irrigation after making sure that periodic
tests have been carried out on it