Tag: water resources

Preserving Water for a Sustainable Future

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On this World Water Day, we reflect on the critical importance of preserving water and the urgent need to protect our water resources – surface, underground and planet’s glaciers. This year’s World Water Day theme, Glacier Preservation, highlights the alarming rate at which glaciers are melting due to climate change and the severe consequences this has on global water security. Glaciers serve as natural reservoirs, storing vast amounts of freshwater that sustain billions of people living on this planet earth along with the agriculture, and ecosystems. The rising global temperatures…

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Los Cabos, Mexico: TSG Water Completes Landmark BiTurbo Project

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FEDCO is excited to announce the successful completion of a 1.4 million gallon per day (5,400 m3/d) BiTurboTM installation in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. The project was carried out in partnership with TSG. Water Resources and H2O Innovation and marks the largest BiTurboTM high-recovery SWRO system commissioned to date in the Western Hemisphere. The facility will provide water for the area’s tourism industry without impacting local freshwater resources. TSG Water Resources selected the BiTurboTM high-recovery seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) technology in order to expand the production capacity of the site…

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Sourav Daspatnaik, Managing Director, Swach Environment Pvt Ltd

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Earth is the only living planet and water is vital for sustaining life. 2/3 of the surface of earth is the ocean. Water is a finite resource within the Planet and we need to be mindful of the way we manage our water resources including waste water. Climate change is going to be critical for the Planet . On this day lets pledge to keep the Earth habitable and water neutral.

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Col. Bhaskar Tatwawadi (Veteran), Director, DoubleShotz Pte. Ltd.            

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EARTHLINGS have lost yet another year since the last Earth Day 2022! And we have a lot to show for all the progress made in conferences, meetings, policy tweaks on papers, verbal assurances of implementing more and more conservation measures to push away the ZERO WATER DAY! In the meantime, summer of 23 has arrived with a vengeance and even as I write this quote in Mumbai, the outside temperature is about 400 C. When Nature starts asserting itself notwithstanding the half-hearted human endeavours, it beats all predictions and computational…

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Dr. S. K. Sarkar, Distinguished Fellow, TERI

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‘Water is critical for life on earth and is an enabler of economic development. India has about 18 percent of world population, but has only about 4 percent of world’s fresh water resources. There is temporal and spatial variation of water resources availability. For example, the per capita water availability in Barak and Brahmaputra river basin is about 11 times higher than that of Gangetic river basin. Due to climate change impact, there is high frequency of rainfall precipitation, and droughts are more frequent. Water demand for various uses is…

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World Water Day Quote from KPMG

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By Sumouleendra Ghosh, Associate Partner, KPMG in India and Global Infrastructure Water Sector Lead of KPMG – The Indian water sector is at an important crossroad. Increasing demand coupled with dwindling freshwater resources as led to a situation where the country is staring at significant water stress in the near future. Today, the water sector in India finds itself grappling with two realities – the need for managing water optimally and the challenge of meeting the growing water demand from competing needs of domestic, agricultural and industrial sectors. In the…

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‘Water Industry and the role it plays in the development of a Country’

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World Water Day 2023 quote By Dr. Ajit Vishnu Salvi, Dy. Chief Engineer (S.O.), Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation – Water is elixir of life.  It has quantitative limitations and qualitative vulnerability.  Water is essential for manufacturing, Agriculture, Commerce, many types of energies, Economics and the existence of human & other life forms.  However, one should not forget that water can never be manufactured. Cloud seeding technology still has long distance to go.  Water is at the core of sustainable development and is critical for socio-economic development, healthy ecosystem and for human…

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Indian Water Industry and the role water plays in the development of the country

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By Dr Anil Kumar Mishra, (Bacteriologist), Delhi Jal Board, Govt of NCT Delhi- Water is an essential and vital component of life and required for performing different type of metabolic activities in all type of living organisms. In present scenario, water scarcity and contamination (physical, chemical microbiological, radiological contaminants) are major problem in India and worldwide. Due to rapid growth of population, urbanization, industrialization and agriculture activities, water resources are under stress and gap between supply and demand (required for various activities like bathing, cooking drinking, sanitation, irrigation, industries etc.)…

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World Water Day 2023 quote | Kritsnam Technologies

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Dr. Jagadeesh, Senior Research Engineer and Sustainability Lead, Kritsnam Technologies – Once upon a time, in a small village called Madanapalle in the Chittoor district in India, lived a farmer named Ravi and his wife Sita. They had a small piece of land on which they grew their crops. Every year, they faced the difficult challenge of managing their water supply, especially during the dry seasons. They had to rely on the monsoons to fill their wells, which often left them with little or no water for their crops. One…

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MAKING WATER A PART OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

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By Mandarr Kkamthe, Senior Product Manager-Water at Asian Contec Ltd. (Stanlay)– Improved water supply and sanitation and water resources management boosts countries’ economic growth and contributes greatly to nation’s growth. Resolving water related challenges requires that the costs for improved water supply and sanitation and water resources management be seen as sound public and private investments and key to a strategy that boosts economies, enables individuals and businesses with a fair chance to prosper. Simply put water and related services must be made part of the economic development business. Water…

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