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CASE STUDY ON NRW MANAGEMENT THROUGH IMPLEMENTATION OF DMA IN NETWORK

By Rudranarayan Kumar, Chief Manager and Devipriya Rout, Executive, Business Development, Swach Environment Pvt Ltd. Overview Non-Revenue Water (NRW) is a burning issue with water supply utilities in India, which includes both physical and commercial losses and free authorized water for which payment is not collected. One of the major issues affecting the Indian water utilities is the pronounced difference between the amount of system input volume (SIV) into the distribution system and the amount of water billed to consumers, which is the NRW. Average NRW in India is around…

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HUNTER WATER TRANSFORMS HOW IT WORKS AND SEES SIGNIFICANT LEAKAGE REDUCTION FOLLOWING DIGITIZATION

By TaKaDu, Israel Background Hunter Water is a State-Owned Corporation (SOC) providing drinking water, wastewater, and recycled water services to almost 600,000 people in the Lower Hunter region, north of Sydney, Australia. From its earliest days in the 1880s, Hunter Water, like the region it serves, has grown greatly. Today, it manages more than AU$2.5 billion worth of infrastructure, including 10,000 km of water and sewer mains. The utility notes that it is constantly looking for new ways to provide great services, enable good development and be a thought leader.…

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TECHNIQUES TO ‘SAVE WATER’ IN THE EXISTING COOLING TOWERS

By Dr. Jagjit Singh Sehra, President, CST Associates Today we find new challenge of water that is being used in the cooling tower. In my pervious article we have discussed how power industry evaporates nearly 2900 liters of water while producing 1 Mega Watt of power. Since the alternative methods of using Adiabatic Cooling towers have been discussed in my pervious articles, which require huge investments. Right now, industry all over the world is passing through the time times because of Corona. Currently companies are very much scared to go…

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NEW GROUNDWATER GUIDELINES FOR INDUSTRIES & SMART WATER MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES

By Vinay Chataraju, Co-Founder & Head Business, Kritsnam Technologies Pvt. Ltd. With the rapidly depleting groundwater table, NGT has passed orders for strong regulations on effective usage of groundwater especially targeting bulk water users such as industrial, commercial and bulk housing. After much discussion, Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA) released a gazette notification on 24-Sep-2020 with guidelines for groundwater extraction for industrial and infrastructure projects. Though the guidelines exempted projects drawing less than 10KLD from taking an NOC, there has been increasing pressure on CGWA not to dilute the regulations.…

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ROLE OF SPACE TECHNOLOGIES IN REDUCING NRW

Riddhish Chetan Soni, Karan Behar and Vikram Gulecha Introduction Civil structures such as pipelines, roadways, and buildings ensure economic growth and prosperity in a society. In particular water supply pipe line networks ensure the distribution of potable water to all stakeholders within a community. These are subjected to deterioration over time leading to problems similar to as the reduced utilization of hydraulic installations, water losses, slowdown in industrial activities, and deteriorate water quality. Also the increasing consumer demand for water creates new problems similar to reduced water pressure at demand…

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NON – REVENUE WATER (NRW):WAYS AND MEANS OF DETECTION

By S. Prasanna, Murugappa Organo Water Solutions Private Limited Water, a highly indispensable resource is depleting in a faster rate. Due to various reasons like population, pollution, undue wastage and so on, water resource gets exhausted rapidly. It is estimated that a person uses 200 litres of water per day. One can’t do without water but one can definitely make a spectacular change in treating the waste water. It’s not a must that agriculture needs fresh water, even treated water will work wonders; same is the case of industries which…

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THE OPERATOR’S EXPERIENCE IN REDUCING PHYSICAL LOSSES ACTIVE LEAKAGE CONTROL AT BUDAPEST WATERWORKS, HUNGARY

By Evelin Madzin, NRW Expertise Center of Budapest Waterworks The importance of drinking water Access to clean, safe water is one of the world’s most pressing needs, as described by UN’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 6) also, billions of people live without access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene. Beside the need for clean drinking water, areas of the globe suffer from water shortage; they have limited access to water sources enough for the growing population. So it is more and more important to ensure that the water already…

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NON-REVENUE WATER AND LEAKAGE DETECTION

By Dushyant Jindal, Co-Founder, Hitech Enviro Solutions Water is of paramount importance for the existence of life on planet Earth. It is essential for the survival itself as well as for most of the activities of human civilisations, be it manufacturing, agriculture, generating electricity or keeping and maintaining the health and wealth of the beings. Although the planet Earth’s surface is covered by nearly two thirds of water, there is not enough of it which can be accessed for the purpose of drinking, household activities or industrial activities. A large…

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THE NEW ASSET MANAGEMENT MANTRA – ONE CITY ONE OPERATOR

By K. Mohamed Shaffi, Chief Business Officer –O&M, VA Tech WABAG The desire for a cleaner Ganga has been subject of discussion for a long time and in 2011 the National Mission for Clean Ganga was formed, however the actions gained momentum in 2014 when the flag ship Namami Gange program was announced. The program was to drive two specific objectives, firstly to arrest large-scale pollution and secondly to rejuvenate the river Ganga. One big advantage of these policy missions is the associated benefits that come along like industrial effluent…

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THE WATER PARADOX

By Mohammed Naser Azeez, Managing Director, Aquality Water Solutions Pvt. Ltd Amongst the five essential elements considered as the basis for life, water is one of them. Life cannot be imagined without water. If there was no water, then the creation of the universe would not have been possible.The importance of it indicates with the historical fact that all great civilizations of the world developed near the water sources and all the ancient cities were located on the banks of rivers.  But today the value of water is again becoming…

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