Tag: water

Communities, Businesses, and NGOs Unite to Tackle Water Challenges for World Water Day 2025

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World Water Day

Volunteers Invited to Join a Global Wave of Action to Expand Clean Water Access WASHINGTON, DC (Feb. 18, 2025) – With 2.2 billion people lacking safe water, communities, businesses, and NGOs are taking bold action this World Water Day to accelerate solutions. From March 17-22, thousands of volunteers worldwide will mobilize to improve water security – through cleanups, education programs, and projects expanding access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). “Around the world, volunteers are driving meaningful progress toward providing clean water and sanitation for communities everywhere,” said Austin Alexander, Vice…

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Boosting Water, Sanitation, and Sustainability: Key Investments in the 2025-26 Budget

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The 2025-26 budget reaffirms the Indian government’s strong focus on enhancing water resources, sanitation, and sustainability through substantial investments in critical programs: These initiatives not only cater to immediate water-intensive sectors but also contribute to environmental sustainability and rural prosperity, positioning the water, wastewater, and solid waste industries for significant growth. The 2025-26 budget is poised to drive eco-friendly, safe, and efficient industrial development across key sectors. By NP Singh, Sales Leader for India at MANN+HUMMEL, Specializing in Water and Membrane Solutions

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Mott Macdonald Bentley standardizes phosphorous removal schemes, delivering infrastructure and intelligence benefits to the U.K. water industry

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Infrastructure and Intelligence

ProjectWise Component Center Helps Facilitate Repeatable Workflows to Save More Than GBP 3.7 Million Supporting Environmental Sustainability. Meeting stringent requirements for phosphorous removal The United Kingdom water industry’s Asset Management Plan 7 (AMP 7) includes a heightened priority for improving water quality schemes. In particular, it focused on reducing the amount of phosphorous released into watercourses, which are natural or artificial channels where water flows. Originating from a range of sources, including wastewater discharge and water main leakages, high levels of phosphorous yields extensive algae growth, posing a significant threat…

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Water: Nurturing Health, Enhancing Well-being

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Mohammed Naser Azeez, Managing Director, Aquality Water Solutions Pvt. Ltd. As we begin the year 2024, we have the same feeling as when the last year started – water is become scarcer and it is on the top of the agenda for nations and industries across globe.More countries are realizing that there is a huge risk in doing nothing to address the challenges related to water supply and the industry facing with declining production. As a fundamental natural resource, water plays a vital role in the development of any region. The…

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SUEZ announces a new organization to deliver its strategy and appoints two new members to the Group’s Executive Committee

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Announced in September 2022, SUEZ’s new strategy aims to make the Group the trusted partner for circular solutions in water and waste recycling & recovery. To reflect this new ambition, SUEZ is redefining its organisation around two major principles: two operational divisions focusing on the Group’s two core businesses, Water and Recycling & Recovery. This new structure will enable SUEZ to fully leverage its portfolio of solutions and improve expertise sharing and synergies between countries. three cross-group units, Engineering & Construction, Digital Solutions, and Innovation. These units will contribute to…

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Nod likely for 40MLD water treatment plant

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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

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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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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

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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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The Earth …. A Solitary Planet!

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Manisha kinge, Manager-Project & Design, Jain Irrigation Systems Pvt. Ltd The Earth is called Mother! Where a favourable – liveable climate called the greenhouse effect is controlled for the growth of microorganisms to giant species. Earth is providing useful elements & resources for us like water, food, shelter, clothes, air, minerals, fuel, power, and wealth for our day-to-day life and business. There are many articles, books, poems, songs, etc written and could be found on Earth. In Sanskrit, Earth is treated as a goddess, and many kingdoms & civilizations flourished &…

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Dilip Yewalekar, Senior Vice President, Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd

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The Earth is the womb of the universe! Where everything takes birth, grows, and merges! Also protects all of us from external forces and radiation! The Earth holds water, lava, and air, and balances a favorable livable climate for micro to mega creatures … makes us Good Morning Every Day without fail! In our culture, we respect the Earth as ‘Bhoo Mata – Goddess Lakshmi’ and offer prayers on many occasions, before the construction, doing farming, and many more activities as scripted in holy literature. ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: The World is…

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