Category: Regulars

TERI, Dew Projects & Chemicals to commercialise TADOX technology for wastewater treatment

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) signed the TADOX Technology and Trademark License (TTLA) agreement with Dew Projects and Chemicals, Noida, for the commercialization of TERI’s patented wastewater treatment technology for municipal and industrial wastewater treatment and reuse in New Delhi. The economics of adequate treatment of wastewater, reuse and mandate to achieve zero liquid discharge (ZLD) has long been a challenge for industries. Advanced oxidation technologies like TADOX offer an economically viable and widely applicable solution to tackle the problem by making the process sustainable and energy efficient, noted…

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Nod likely for 40MLD water treatment plant

The major irrigation department authorities are likely to grant permission for the proposed 45 MLD water treatment plant of Kinfra, which is going to be set up in the Periyar River at Aluva. Earlier, the department authorities had opposed the project citing that the water carrying capacity of the river sharply declined after the 2018 floods. But it is learnt that the department would consider granting permission for the project in a meeting to be convened by industry minister P Rajeeve in the coming days. The project has already invited…

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WABAG forays into Bangladesh with a World Bank & AIIB funded DBO order worth about Rs. 800 Crores

March 17, 2023: VA TECH WABAG (‘WABAG’), a leading pure-play Water Technology Indian Multinational Group, has secured an order worth about Rs. 800 Crores towards Design, Build and Operate (DBO) for Reconstruction, Expansion and Operation of Pagla Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) with a capacity of 200 Million Litres per Day (MLD) at Pagla in the City of Dhaka, Bangladesh for Dhaka Water Supply & Sewerage Authority (Dhaka WASA). The project is funded by Multi-lateral Funding Agencies like World Bank and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) under Dhaka Sanitation Improvement Project…

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LANXESS increases sales and earnings significantly in fiscal year 2022

Sales up 32.6 percent year-on-year at EUR 8.088 billion EBITDA pre exceptionals increase 14.1 percent to EUR 930 million Acquired Consumer Protection businesses make positive contribution Dividend proposal for fiscal year 2022: EUR 1.05 per share Guidance for fiscal year 2023: Earnings expected to be at the 2022 level Guidance for Q1 2023: EBITDA pre exceptionals of EUR 180 million to EUR 220 million expected In an environment characterised by many upheavals, LANXESS closed fiscal year 2022 successfully. The specialty chemicals company’s sales and earnings have increased significantly. Group sales…

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WABAG led joint venture secures DBO order towards South East Asia’s largest Sea Water Desalination project with capacity of 400 MLD, worth about INR 4,400 Crores, funded by JICA

VA TECH WABAG (‘WABAG’), a leading pure-play water technology Indian Multinational Group, further enhanced its leadership position in the Global Desalination market, by securing a Design, Build, Operate (‘DBO’) order, for the 400 Million Litres per Day (MLD) Sea Water Reverse Osmosis (‘SWRO’) Desalination Project from Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (‘CMWSSB’) worth about INR 4,400 Crores. The project is scheduled to be executed under the leadership of WABAG in joint venture with Metito Overseas Limited (‘Metito’). This DBO order includes the scope of Design, Engineering, Procurement, Construction,…

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Net-zero waste to be mandatory for buildings

All upcoming housing societies and commercial complexes in the country will soon mandatorily have to ensure net zero waste and have their liquid discharge treated, as part of the government’s push for reforming and modernising the sewage disposal system. Achieving net zero waste means reducing, reusing, and recovering waste streams (sludge) to convert them to valuable resources so that zero solid waste is sent to landfills. The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs will be sending a directive, likely by the end of March, to all State governments to make…

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Meet effluent treatment norms by April 30 or face action, firms told in Chandigarh

Chandigarh Smart City Limited (CSCL) has finally written to companies doing the upgradation the sewage treatment plant (STP), directing them to meet all norms of liquid effluent treatment at any cost by April 30 or be ready to face major action. Since three STPs are being upgraded, the biggest Diggian-based plant is with one company, while remaining two STPs are also being run by one company as they are small in size. The letter has come after a visit of the adviser to the UT administrator, the home-cum-local bodies secretary…

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Calangute sewerage plant awaiting reverse pipeline

The long-delayed sewerage network and treatment plant (STP) in Calangute cannot function unless there is a “reverse pipeline” to take the treated water from the STP to the garbage treatment plant in Saligao, Calangute MLA Michael Lobo said. The recent episode of beach shacks in Calangute releasing their sewage into illegal soak pits or into the sea has brought the Rs 100-crore JICA-funded sewerage project in the tourism hub back in focus. Many hotels and resorts are also allegedly releasing sewage into nullahs, fields and other places. Lobo said that…

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Delhi L-G writes to CM Kejriwal, flags miserable hygiene condition at Wazirabad Water Treatment Plant

In a fresh round of friction between Delhi Lieutenant-Governor (L-G) VK Saxena and the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the former has written to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, flagging the miserable hygiene and sanitary conditions at Wazirabad Water Treatment Plant (WTP) that supplies drinking water to large parts of the national capital. This comes after the L-G visited the facility on Saturday and expressed his concern seeing the worsening condition of the plant. In his letter, L-G Saxena also flagged gross inaction on part of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB)…

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Backed by civic bonds, tertiary water treatment plant in Ghaziabad likely to be ready by June

GHAZIABAD : The tertiary water treatment plant coming up in Indirapuram may miss its March deadline but is expected to be ready by June. The Rs 319.14-crore plant with a capacity to treat 4 million litres of water per day will reduce the dependency of the over 1,400 units in the Sahibabad industrial area on groundwater. “The work on the tertiary water treatment plant is 27%complete. We had set March as the target for commissioning the plant but the workflow was impeded after Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) came into…

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