Project Description

Treating or purifying water is one of the most necessary basic needs for societies. Most countries use a system of collection sewers, pumping stations, and other treatment plants. Wastewater from homes, businesses, and many industries, are collected by sewers and delivered to plants for treatment. Most treatment plants were built to clean wastewater for discharge into streams or other receiving waters, or for reuse.

Many years ago, sewage was dumped into waterways, and a natural process of purification began. The volume of clean water diluted the wastewater. Small organisms in the water consumed the sewage turning it into new bacterial cells, carbon dioxide and other products.

Clean drinking water is one of the basic needs of mankind to survive. Yet while modern civilization has the benefit of sewers, huge water facilities and filtration systems, there are many people in Nigeria and the world that still do not have access to clean water. Harvard Petroleum will make it our mission to help those in need.

Solid waste are minute particles that can be removed from sewage in sedimentation tanks. When the flow through one of these tanks slows, the suspended solids will sink to the bottom, where they form a mass of solids called raw primary biosolids (sludge). It requires pumps to remove biosolids from tanks, after which it may be further treated for use as a fertilizer or dumped in a land fill or incinerated. Unfortunately, primary treatment alone has not been able to meet the demands for higher water quality. Many cities and industries are using advanced treatment to remove nutrients and other contaminants.

With increased populations causing a greater volume of domestic and industrial wastewater the water treatment requirements are more demanding. The function of wastewater treatment is to accelerate the natural processes by which water is purified.

Through new technological advancements, we have water purification facilities today that are streamlined, portable and mobile. These modular systems can transform raw sewage into pure drinking water, free from contaminants and bacteria. One small unit can clean river water for an entire village of 100 to 1,000 individuals. And it can easily be brought to the most remote areas in a country that have no access to modern technology.

Harvard Petroleum is dedicated to helping the Nigerian people, villages and tribes, in the remote parts of the country, as well as cities where clean running water is hard to come by. Through corporate profits from petroleum sales, Harvard Petroleum will help to fund the acquisition of these water treatment facilities from the US and bring them to Nigeria.