Assessment And Proposal Of Innovative Waste Water Supply System For Informal Settlement Residences ‘The Case Of Ikuti Sub-Urbs, Mbeya City ? Tanzania’

The problem of informal settlement that is characterized by low quality houses and inadequate infrastructure has continued to affect societies; Ikuti Sub-Urbs is inseparable of this. In Ikuti sub-urbs, waste water is noticeable flowing along the adjacent houses of the residences, a problem is even exacerbate with the built-in informal settlements. Such situation creates unpleasant and discomfort living condition to the households. This study investigates performance of waste water supply system within Ikuti Sub-Urbs and proposes an innovative concrete trapezoidal channel that would hygienically convey wastes to a disposal unit. A survey was conducted to outline waste water performance issues: i.e. waste water generation, awareness and consciousness by the community about these waste water’s effects, identifying current initiatives by respondents and identifying distances between houses together with the topographical levels of the underlying ground. Four issues appear as the study’s findings (i) waste water occur from diverse sources: from the off points of uncontrolled taps, kitchen utensils, baths and toilets (ii) waste water flows on uncontrolled strips at the adjoin households; causing discomfort to the street walkers, in addition to the effects to children that keep to play-in (iii) Few residences are noted to be familiar with the waste water’s hazards; information further denote that, in the village’s level, there is little/no efforts to improve waste water supply systems (iv) spaces between houses provide clear sizes ranging from sixty to one hundred fifty centimeters and a down fall topographical land necessary to support an open, with a cover, trapezoidal concrete channel that conveys waste water to a disposal unit. Generally, despite the likely specific benefits to the Ikuti residences, this study’s finding has implication of adaption in many other places of the developing countries.