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‘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…

Waste to Wealth: An overview of the recognized resources derived from wastewater

Oct 28, 2022Oct 28, 2022 eawater

By Dr. Neethu B and Dr. P. S. Harikumar, Center for Water Resources Development and Management Around 80% of the water we use daily for domestic purpose goes as wastewater. Similarly, a huge quantity of wastewater is being generated atindustries, quality and quantity of which varies with the product as well as process involved. Hence, wastewater has gained much attention as a problematic substance by large proportion of the population. As one-quarter of the world now faces water stress, the sole purpose of wastewater treatment plant is being focused to…

Wastewater Reuse: Solution for Water Scarcity

Oct 18, 2022Oct 18, 2022 eawater

By Mohammed Naser Azeez, Managing Director, Aquality Water Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Water is essential for life. It is the most abundant compound found in all living organisms and the basis of existence of the planet. Yet, around80% of the world’s untreated wastewater is discarded into the water bodies, rivers, lakes, ponds, and oceans creating drinking water pollution that ultimately becomes harmful to public health. The researchers are surprised that in decades, what they could not imagine, the new contaminants are now increasingly found in water that were previously unidentified, from…

WASTEWATER REUSE SYSTEM AS PART OF THE SMART CITY CONCEPT

Oct 17, 2022Oct 17, 2022 eawater

By Ran Kedem, Partner And Business Development Director, Reali Technologies Ltd. Smart city concept – backgroundThe smart city concept integrates information and communication technology (ICT), and various physical devices connected to the IoT (Internet of things) network to optimize the efficiency of city operations and services and connect to citizens.Smart city technology allows city departments and management as well as related entities to interact directly with both community and city infrastructure and to monitor what is happening in the city and how the city is evolving. ICT is used to…