Tag: Drinking Water

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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World Water Day: Accelerate to Commemorate

By Mohammed Naser Azeez, Managing Director, Aquality Water Solutions Pvt. Ltd. – Water is the most vital resource that we all use every single day. At global level, 2 billion people lack access to safely managed drinking water at home. The United Nations report on how climate change is affecting world’s water resources has estimated that around half of the world population, nearly 5 billion people will face at least one month of water shortage by 2050. Lack of adequate water facility near homes is forcing women and girls in…

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Online monitoring of wastewater effluents in India

World Water Day 2023 quote By Lukas Kornfeind, Application Manager, Badger Meter Water Quality International – Surface and groundwater are the major sources for drinking water worldwide. Therefore, their protection is the basis for public health and in the interest of many governments. To examine the current situation, the Central Pollution Control Board of India (CPCB) published, the guidelines for online monitoring systems of wastewater effluents. 17 categories of effluents, from common effluent treatment plants and STPs up to industrial dischargers like pulp & paper, oil refineries and dye &…

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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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Vitens and NX Filtration start pilot for testing Ijssel river water as potential source for drinking water

Vitens, the largest drinking water utility in the Netherlands, is starting a pilot program with NX Filtration, the global provider of breakthrough direct nanofiltration (dNF) technology for pure and affordable water. In the pilot program, Vitens will use NX Filtration’s dNF membrane technology to produce drinking or industrial process water from the Dutch Ijssel river. The pilot program of Vitens is expected to run from October 2022 to Fall 2024.Today, groundwater is Vitens’ primary source for high quality and reliable drinking water production. As a response to growing demand for…

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Rain Water Harvesting Case Study: Center for Industrial Technological Studies and Services Mexico

By Prathamesh Gawde, Senior Product Marketer, Bentley Systems OverviewA technical institution in Mexico used Bentley applications to develop a digital twin of a rainwater harvesting project, which is expected to reduce campus carbon dioxide emissions by 32 tons. Updating Teaching Technology to Meeting Industry StandardsThe Center for Industrial Technological Studies and Services is an educational institution that offers careers in architecture and construction in Mexico City, Mexico. The institution wanted to update their digital teaching tools, as their previous software did not facilitate digital integration of planning, design, and engineering…

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Wastewater Reuse: Solution for Water Scarcity

By Mohammed Naser Azeez, Managing Director, Aquality Water Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Water is essential for life. It is the most abundant compound found in all living organisms and the basis of existence of the planet. Yet, around80% of the world’s untreated wastewater is discarded into the water bodies, rivers, lakes, ponds, and oceans creating drinking water pollution that ultimately becomes harmful to public health. The researchers are surprised that in decades, what they could not imagine, the new contaminants are now increasingly found in water that were previously unidentified, from…

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MAKES SENSE TO INVEST IN WATER AND SANITATION

By Team EverythingAboutWater Research by Water Aid, an international Ngo focused on water, sanitation and hygiene, states that companies which invest in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) for their employees, their business thrives. It a well-known fact that water is the essence of life and access to clean drinking water is the ley to a healthy and fruitful life. While we can control, what we consume, when we are at home and that even includes the water that we drink but what does one do when one steps out. Even…

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NEW IRON REMOVAL MEDIA: REDEFINING WATER QUALITY

By Praveen Kumar S All about the extremely powerful silica sand based catalytic water filtration media that is designed for removal of Iron and Manganese without the use of potassium permanganate. The character of water is changing across India and hence adopting new measures of quality is highly Important. Ground water in India is now getting affected by heavy metals which are beyond the permissible limit. Presence of Fe (Iron), Arsenic, Manganese, in water, to name a few are Quite detrimental for human consumption. We have plenty of water resources,…

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10 crore rural households get drinking water through taps

As the country celebrates Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, to mark 75 years of India’s Independence, Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) achieves a new milestone by providing 10 crore rural households with safe and clean drinking water through taps. When the JJM was launched by Shri Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, on 15 August 2019, from the ramparts of the Red Fort, only 3.23 Crore households in villages had access to a piped water connection. The country achieved the landmark of 10 crore functional household tap connection on 19 August 2022.…

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