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THE NEW ASSET MANAGEMENT MANTRA – ONE CITY ONE OPERATOR

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By K. Mohamed Shaffi, Chief Business Officer –O&M, VA Tech WABAG The desire for a cleaner Ganga has been subject of discussion for a long time and in 2011 the National Mission for Clean Ganga was formed, however the actions gained momentum in 2014 when the flag ship Namami Gange program was announced. The program was to drive two specific objectives, firstly to arrest large-scale pollution and secondly to rejuvenate the river Ganga. One big advantage of these policy missions is the associated benefits that come along like industrial effluent…

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THE WATER PARADOX

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By Mohammed Naser Azeez, Managing Director, Aquality Water Solutions Pvt. Ltd Amongst the five essential elements considered as the basis for life, water is one of them. Life cannot be imagined without water. If there was no water, then the creation of the universe would not have been possible.The importance of it indicates with the historical fact that all great civilizations of the world developed near the water sources and all the ancient cities were located on the banks of rivers.  But today the value of water is again becoming…

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“NON- REVENUE WATER (NRW) AND LEAKAGE DETECTION”

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Dr. Anil Kumar Mishra, Bacteriologist, Delhi Jal Board, Govt. Of NCT, Delhi Water is an essential and vital component of life support system. The grounds as well as surface water resources are being utilized for drinking, irrigation and industrial and other purposes. However, due to rapid growth of population, urbanization, industrialization and agriculture activities, water resources are under stress. There is growing concern on the deterioration of water quality due to geogenic and anthropogenic activities. According to news published in daily News Paper “Dainik Jagaran” dated 14-06-2018; 13491 Million Quesec…

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REDUCING INDUSTRIAL WATER FOOT PRINT BY RECLAIMING WASTEWATER

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By Mohd Zeeshan, Senior Water Professional As it states, water is essential for life but also the most vulnerable resource, which is often wrongly considered as renewable. Water is not only used in the domestic perspective but also has a vital role in the agriculture and industrial sectors. As the world progresses, water security is becoming the most substantial, social, political, economic and environmental challenge for the humankind. As per a recent study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), by the end of 2030, 47 percent of…

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BENEFITS OF CENTRALIZED WASTEWATER TREATMENT

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By Geza Csornyei, Attila Farkas, Tamas Kovari, Bernadett Lemaire, Jozsef Neer, Budapest Waterworks Abstract:-  In the past few decades, global population growth has been dominated by an increasing urban population. Maintaining urban hygiene and healthy water resources a major challenge to many countries around the world. Wastewater treatment approaches vary from the conventional centralized systems to the onsite decentralized systems. While in dispersed households decentralized water treatment solutions are promoted in order to economize the investment costs of the sewer system, for more densely populated areas centralized treatment represents a…

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THE IMPORTANCE OF CONTINUOUS ONLINE WATER QUALITY MONITORING IN DRINKING WATER PRODUCTION, STORAGE AND DISTRIBUTION IN REGARD TO CLIMATE CHANGE

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By Christoph Schönher, Robert Wurm, Andreas Weingartner, scan Messtechnik GmbH, Vienna Introduction :- The global rise in temperature in regard to climate change affects the water supply in many different ways. In Austria, for example, regionally varying changes in groundwater recharge are expected. Another direct consequence of climate change is the increased number of extreme weather events in the form of heat waves. The increasing temperature has a particular impact on the temperature balance of groundwater, while heat waves are a very direct consequence of climate change in the distribution…

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SMART AND INTELLIGENT WATER NETWORK

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By Subhash Sethi, Chairman, SPML Infra Limited Water is vital to human sustainability and economic growth. Globally, the number of water scarce regions is rising every year threatening the well-being of its people and the economy. Global pressure on water utilities are varying from region to region on water availability, usage and wastage. The most significant factor that utilities across regions faces regularly is the huge volume of water losses, which represents the water that isn’t accounted for despite necessary resources applied by them. High volume of water wastage and…

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WATER USAGE; POLLUTION AND TREATMENT

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By Dr. AV Singh – Chief Sustainability Officer, Bajaj Power Group of Companies Water, a substance composed of the chemical elements hydrogen and oxygen and existing in gaseous, liquid, and solid states. It is one of the most plentiful and essential of compounds. A tasteless and odourless liquid at room temperature, it has the important ability to dissolve many other substances. Indeed, the versatility of water as a solvent is essential to living organisms. We are living at watery planet. Very huge quantity of water exists on, in, and above…

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MUNICIPAL WATER MANAGEMENT

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One cannot think about life without water. We are blessed with adequate natural resources of water, but increasing population, the alarming rate of global warming and rapid industrialization coupled with lack of adequate and improved management of the water supply systems resulted in the increased rate of water consumption, wastage of water and deteriorating condition of the water supply networks, resulted in the scarcity of water. Pure and safe drinking water has always been a necessity for human life. It is therefore desirable that every individual has access to safe,…

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DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM IN WATER SUPPLY FOR SMART CITIES

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By Manoj Nainani, Executive Director, Egis India Introduction- DSSDecision Support System (DSS) benefits a water supply distribution system in a city from its knowledge management system that integrates a simulation model with a graphical user interface and Water consumption Database. The simulation models work with a wide range of scenarios and alternatives to enhance the performance indicators like daily water demand at individual households as per the consumption pattern analysis from the long-term consumption data and Energy demand for working of Pump houses responsible for lifting water from the source…

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