Filtration of water using mangrove mud

PrizesSchoolProject TitleParticipants
Commendation Award S$500ITE College EastFiltration of water using mangrove mudDaniel Poh Yuan Kai, Aidil Sufian B Sohani, Muhammad Ridhwan B Roslan, Muhammad Aminuddin B Zulkifl
Project Summary

The Mangrove ecosystem traps and cycles various organic materials, chemical elements, and important nutrients. Dissolved substances are used by plankton, bacteria, and fungi. This material, in nature, is deposited over the seabed. Here bacteria densities are almost as high as those in the mangrove mud and they do much the same job, breaking down the litter to be consumed by bottom-living fauna.

This project involved the usage of mangrove mud collected from Singapore Sungei Mandai and Sungei Buloh to make an internal filtration water system to filter off the water collected from Singapore and Kallang River. Instead of using chemical methods to clean and filter Singapore waters, an alternative suggestion of using environmental friendly mangrove mud is possible.