Tag: freshwater

World Water Day Quote from Daiki Axis India

By Mr. Kamal Tiwari, CEO, Daiki Axis India Pvt. Ltd. – Water resource management has become an important concern globally, with dwindling freshwater supplies across the world, it is vital for governments as well as Industries to adopt sustainable and cost-effective strategies to save water and promote greener economies. Access to clean, pure water has long been a problem in developing countries. Water-treatment plants, structured pipelines, and other critical infrastructure such as Decentralized sewage treatment plants that treat residential wastewater and promote the reuse of the treated water for local…

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STL becomes the world’s first optical manufacturer to be ‘Zero Liquid Discharge’ certified

STL, one of the industry’s leading integrators of digital networks today announced that 100% of its Indian manufacturing facilities are now Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) certified by Deutsch Quality Systems (DQS India). This is a great milestone for STL in its UN SDG goal of attaining ‘Water Positivity by 2030’.While India only has 4% of the world’s freshwater reserves at present, the demand will rise by over 70% by 2025, stressing water supply chains like never before. For STL, water management is a top priority in its materiality matrix. This…

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Water Recycle, Reuse & Zero Liquid Discharge

By Mangesh Dashrath Surve, Founder- Managing Director (MD), Envicare Technologies Pvt. Ltd.Water is the most precious thing on our planet. It can be called the only true elixir of life. However, wastewater has impacted water levels and water quality.It is where wastewater management comes into the picture and can become a vital force in saving water. There are mainly three ways to deal with wastewater for far-reaching impact. WASTEWATER REUSE :Reusing anything is a classic way of ensuring that the item lasts long, gets utilised in a long term and…

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CLEARBLACKTM – A SMART SEWAGE TREATMENT & RECYCLING SYSTEM

By Rohan P Vyas, Huliot Pipes and Fittings Pvt. Ltd. ClearBlackTM is a modular wastewater treatment plant designed and developed by the Huliot Advanced Flow Systems for treatment as well as reclamation and reuse of treated sewage for non-potable purposes.The system presents the Sewage Recycling and Reuse as the best symbiotic solution complementing the optimization of freshwater resources in the time of ongoing water stress and saving them by getting polluted simultaneously by its untreated discharge into the river bodies.The development of the system draws its inspiration from Israel’s Wastewater…

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Should Waste Water Be Regarded as a ‘Waste’ Anymore ?

By Dr. Mayur J. Kapadia, former Additional General Manager & Head, Quality Control Division, GNFC Ltd., Bharuch, Gujarat. Water – the sole lifeline of people and a precious gift of nature –is becoming increasingly scarce. In the face of climate change, our freshwater resources are at threat. One tenth of the world’s population lacks access to clean and safe water. The population growth, increased human activities and degradation of natural environments have put challenge to provision of safe and sufficient water to the mankind. Wastewater is often seen as a…

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RESPONDING TO EMERGING INFRASTRUCTURE TRENDS IN INDIA WITH BOROUGE’S SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS

By Peck Tze Kang, Head of Regional Marketing, Energy & Infrastructure, Asia South, Borouge Projected to become the world’s most populous country in 2023 , India is on the cusp of an energy and infrastructure revolution. The government must ensure its rapidly growing population has access to affordable, reliable, sustainable energy and water. At Borouge, we enable everyday life. As a leading petrochemical company, Borouge provides innovative and differentiated polyolefin solutions for the infrastructure, energy, mobility, advanced packaging, agriculture and healthcare industries. Our solutions also help address several global challenges,…

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The Universal Rise of Zero Liquid Discharge for Wastewater Management: Technologies and Future Directions

Freshwater scarcity, one of the most critical global challenges of our time, poses a major threat to economic growth, water security, and ecosystem health. The challenge of providing adequate and safe drinking water is further complicated by climate change and the pressures of economic development and industrialization. The public and industrial sectors consume substantial amounts of freshwater while producing vast quantities of wastewater. If inadequately treated, wastewater discharge into the aquatic environment causes severe pollution that adversely impacts aquatic ecosystems and public health. Recovery and recycling of wastewater has become…

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Prime Minister inaugurates MRPL projects worth INR 2,510 crore

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was on a two-day visit to Kerala and Karnataka inaugurated two projects of Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals (MRPL) worth INR 2,510 crore in the first week of September. The Prime Minister inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of projects worth around INR 3,800 crore in Mangaluru, including MRPL’s BS-VI upgradation project and sea water desalination plant, and also commissioned India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant at the Cochin Shipyard in Kochi. The sea water desalination plant, set up at a cost of around ₹680…

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USE OF MICROBES AND HERBAL EXTRACTS TO TREAT WASTEWATER

By Sanjay Bahl When the going gets tough and when traditional water treatment methods seem unsatisfactory then we should resort to the natural ways of cleaning wastewater. If water was a Sadhu or Yogi then he would go to his ashram in the morning as a bright, smart, clear-headed gentleman and come back in the evening to his hut as a fat, lethargic, tired man and then would get into an intense tapasya to rejuvenate himself again for the next day. Similarly, technically Speaking water is a universal solvent and…

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