Consumption of Treated Water
- Universitas Andalas (Unand) has a Water Treatment Plant (WTP) that supplies drinking water within the university area, located at coordinates 0°54'47"S 100°28'13"E.
- Unand WTP has two treatment units: conventional treatment and ultrafiltration.
- The initial treatment units, built in 1984, consisted of a rapid sand filtration (RSF) system and a slow sand filtration (SSF) system, with capacities of 15 L/s and 35 L/s, respectively. Subsequently, an additional Water Treatment Plant (WTP) package with a capacity of 40 L/s was constructed, bringing the total WTP capacity to 90 L/s.
- The raw water used comes from two sources: the Ladang Kabau intake and the Limau Manis intake at 312 meters above sea level.
- Unand WTP provides various facilities on campus, including lecture buildings, faculty buildings, student activity facilities, dormitories, places of worship, and hospitals in the campus area.
- Raw water is taken from the beach through an intake, then channeled by gravity through a galvanized iron pipe (GIP) with a diameter of 250 mm to the filtration unit for the filtering process, and finally flows to the campus area.
- The filtered water then flows to a reservoir for distribution to the service area using a branch system.
- Unand WTP distributes water around 3,888 m3/day to all buildings in the university area including the hospital. This amount can fulfill the needs of around 35,000 academicians and the water needs of Unand Hospital, i.e. 2,669 m3/day, and the water usage for the Unand hospital, 113 m3/ bed/day.
- The results of the drinking water quality test show that most of the drinking water quality parameters comply with the Indonesian Ministry of Health Regulation No. 2 of 2023 concerning Drinking Water Quality Standards.
Additional evidence link (i.e., for videos, more images, or other files that are not included in this file):
https://green.unand.ac.id/index.php/smart/water