{"id":1964,"date":"2014-10-23T13:44:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T12:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/blogs\/english\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2016-07-18T16:46:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T16:46:49","slug":"new-norms-for-disposing-of-waste-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/new-norms-for-disposing-of-waste-water\/","title":{"rendered":"New norms for disposing of waste water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From 22nd to 23rd October, the Ministry of Water, Environment, Sanitation and Urbanism (MEEATU) organized a two day workshop to raise awareness on the national norms for disposing waste water.<\/strong>&#8211;<em>By Diane Uwimana<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1965\" style=\"width: 374px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/lettre-diane1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1965\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1965 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/lettre-diane1.jpg\" alt=\"Francine Jeanne Nkunzimana: \u201cWith the new norms, people can no longer throw out waste water wherever they want, without treating it. The sanitation code penalizes noncompliance.\u201d \u00a9Iwacu\" width=\"364\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/lettre-diane1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/lettre-diane1-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francine Jeanne Nkunzimana: \u201cWith the new norms, people can no longer throw out waste water wherever they want, without treating it. The sanitation code penalizes noncompliance.\u201d \u00a9Iwacu<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThrowing out waste water can negatively impact our health and environment\u201d, says Francine Jeanne Nkunzimana, Director of Sanitation and Water Quality Control at the MEEATU. The ministry has established parameters that identify the discharge norms of waste water. Companies and households are forced to follow these limitations, based on categories of liquid waste levels such as black-, grey- water and sewage. Companies will be forced to connect to the waste water plant.<\/p>\n<p>Nkunzimana recognizes that there is a waste water treatment plant capable of treating 40.000m3 of water a day, but unfortunately, it only treats between 10.000m3 and 12.000m3due to the small number of industries and households connected to the plant.<br \/>\n\u201cWith the new norms, people can no longer throw out waste water wherever they want, without treating it. The sanitation code penalizes noncompliance\u201d, she adds.<\/p>\n<p>Th\u00e9ophile Ndarufatiye, the assistant of the Minister of Water and Environment, notes that the norms will reduce surface and underground water pollution. \u201cIt will also preserve the quality of our environment, animal habitat and biodiversity\u201d, he adds.<br \/>\nThe discharge norms of waste water are used to find solutions for environmental issues. \u201cThese norms will against pollution\u201d, says Ndarufatiye. Waste water concerns all water of domestic, agricultural and industrial activities charged of toxic substances that reaches the sanitation gutters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 22nd to 23rd October, the Ministry of Water, Environment, Sanitation and Urbanism (MEEATU) organized a two day workshop to raise awareness on the national norms for disposing waste water.&#8211;By Diane Uwimana \u201cThrowing out waste water can negatively impact our health and environment\u201d, says Francine Jeanne Nkunzimana, Director of Sanitation and Water Quality Control at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[296,457],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2826,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions\/2826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}