Greywater treatment system in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Mosque: utilizing filter wells as an alternative sustainable innovation
Water is one of the natural resources that support entire creature’s needs in earth. It was also a key element of sustainable living. The important of water is proved by fact that human body were consists of 80% water which makes daily water needs is definitely important. Same thing was happen on ea...
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| description | Water is one of the natural resources that support entire creature’s needs in earth. It was also a key element of sustainable living. The important of water is proved by fact that human body were consists of 80% water which makes daily water needs is definitely important. Same thing was happen on earth which also consists of 71 % water. Unfortunately, nowadays qualities as well as quantities of water is getting poor caused many environmental decline. Those situation is feel quite irony, first is because in one side human are depending on water badly, and in another side, qualities and quantities water have been decreasing because of their own. This environmental issue, especially water was realized by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) by starting to be a first pioneer in Green & Sustainability Campus in Malaysia. Although UKM is located in water-rich country, still UKM try to commit to save environment as well as manage its environment aspect. The usage of water in UKM itself is categorized in high level. UKM have around 20.000 students and most of them are dwelling in campus. For big campus like this, UKM had one main Mosque which accommodates some daily worship of Moslem as the majority one. For activities like ablution, washing and bathing, UKM Mosque had produce quite big amount of grey water. Grey water itself is residual water that still fresh and can be recycled for some purposes such as landscape irrigation and cleaning service. One alternative method to treats the grey water is by the usage of filter wells. This paper is trying to analysis and proposes some design of grey water system in UKM mosque in order to save environment. With proper grey water treatment, UKM Mosque will contribute to save water and UKM’s environment. This successful water treatment is also can be an alternative model to apply in another building. |
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| spelling | upm-377922015-10-06T00:50:32Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/37792/ Greywater treatment system in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Mosque: utilizing filter wells as an alternative sustainable innovation Utaberta, Nangkula Handryant, Aisyah Nur Water is one of the natural resources that support entire creature’s needs in earth. It was also a key element of sustainable living. The important of water is proved by fact that human body were consists of 80% water which makes daily water needs is definitely important. Same thing was happen on earth which also consists of 71 % water. Unfortunately, nowadays qualities as well as quantities of water is getting poor caused many environmental decline. Those situation is feel quite irony, first is because in one side human are depending on water badly, and in another side, qualities and quantities water have been decreasing because of their own. This environmental issue, especially water was realized by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) by starting to be a first pioneer in Green & Sustainability Campus in Malaysia. Although UKM is located in water-rich country, still UKM try to commit to save environment as well as manage its environment aspect. The usage of water in UKM itself is categorized in high level. UKM have around 20.000 students and most of them are dwelling in campus. For big campus like this, UKM had one main Mosque which accommodates some daily worship of Moslem as the majority one. For activities like ablution, washing and bathing, UKM Mosque had produce quite big amount of grey water. Grey water itself is residual water that still fresh and can be recycled for some purposes such as landscape irrigation and cleaning service. One alternative method to treats the grey water is by the usage of filter wells. This paper is trying to analysis and proposes some design of grey water system in UKM mosque in order to save environment. With proper grey water treatment, UKM Mosque will contribute to save water and UKM’s environment. This successful water treatment is also can be an alternative model to apply in another building. International Center for Islamic Architecture from the Sunnah, Department of Architecture UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang 2014-06 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/37792/1/Greywater%20treatment%20system%20in%20Universiti%20Kebangsaan%20Malaysia%20Mosque.pdf Utaberta, Nangkula and Handryant, Aisyah Nur (2014) Greywater treatment system in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Mosque: utilizing filter wells as an alternative sustainable innovation. Journal of Islamic Architecture, 3 (1). pp. 19-24. ISSN 2086-2636 |
| spellingShingle | Utaberta, Nangkula Handryant, Aisyah Nur Greywater treatment system in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Mosque: utilizing filter wells as an alternative sustainable innovation |
| title | Greywater treatment system in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Mosque: utilizing filter wells as an alternative sustainable innovation |
| title_full | Greywater treatment system in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Mosque: utilizing filter wells as an alternative sustainable innovation |
| title_fullStr | Greywater treatment system in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Mosque: utilizing filter wells as an alternative sustainable innovation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Greywater treatment system in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Mosque: utilizing filter wells as an alternative sustainable innovation |
| title_short | Greywater treatment system in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Mosque: utilizing filter wells as an alternative sustainable innovation |
| title_sort | greywater treatment system in universiti kebangsaan malaysia mosque: utilizing filter wells as an alternative sustainable innovation |
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