Author: eawater

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…

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…

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…

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…