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Rising populations exacerbate lack of resources

Mar 22, 2023Mar 22, 2023 eawater

By Mr. Rajesh H, Manager- Water Industry, ifm electronic India Private Limited – India’s water supply comes mainly from rivers and groundwater. The greatest challenge consists in the lack of water, and this problem is becoming more serious as the population increases. We are approaching a zero point in many parts of India – water supplies are practically exhausted. Tap water is not potable. To make it drinkable, it has to be filtered using a domestic reverse osmosis plant. The increasing scarcity of water has led to improvements in the…

World Water Day Quote from KPMG

Mar 22, 2023Mar 22, 2023 eawater

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…

Online monitoring of wastewater effluents in India

Mar 22, 2023Mar 22, 2023 eawater

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 &…

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

Mar 22, 2023Mar 22, 2023 eawater

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…

Inauguration of biological wastewater treatment plant at LANXESS

Nov 8, 2022Nov 8, 2022 eawater

LANXESS has commissioned a new wastewater treatment plant at its Belgium Kallo/Antwerp site. The special chemicals company invested around EUR 12 million in the plant, which has a treatment capacity of around 260,000 liters of wastewater per hour.LANXESS thoroughly modernized and expanded the existing water treatment plant to comply with the stricter environmental legislation. It was a challenging job because the plant had to remain operational throughout the renovation. The wastewater treatment plant not only processes the wastewater from the LANXESS plants on the site, for the production rubber chemicals…

NX Filtration part of ACCIONA-led initiative to eliminate emerging pollutants from water sources

Nov 5, 2022Nov 5, 2022 eawater

NX Filtration, the global provider of breakthrough direct nanofiltration technology for pure and affordable water, announces its participation in the European innovation project LIFE PRISTINE, led by ACCIONA S.A. The project’s objective is to eliminate emerging contaminants in the integral water cycle, one of the essential measures to promote alternative water resources in the face of water scarcity, which affects more than 2.8 billion people worldwide.o The LIFE PRISTINE project has a budget of 4 million euros and is coordinated by ACCIONA, the Spanish sustainable infrastructure solutions group. Next to…

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

Nov 3, 2022Nov 3, 2022 eawater

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…

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

Nov 2, 2022Nov 2, 2022 eawater

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…

Water Recycle, Reuse & Zero Liquid Discharge

Oct 31, 2022Oct 31, 2022 eawater

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…

Zero Liquid Discharge, Policy Scenerio and Indian Textile Industries

Oct 28, 2022Oct 28, 2022 eawater

By Manoj Nainani, Executive Director, Egis India Over the years, growth of population, expansion of industry and infrastructures has resulted in accelerated depletion of the natural water supplies and created water stress regions around the world. Further, to preserve natural resources from overburdening and pollution; stringent environmental regulations are being enforced. This requires additional technology interventions prior to waste water discharge and to undertake water management practices. Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) is a comparatively recent development in waste water treatment that totally eliminates requirement of waste water discharge to the…