The continued high cost of fresh water and environmental concerns are causing more industrial plants to explore wastewater reuse options. Many facilities are finding it can be more economical to reuse wastewater from specific process areas or from sources outside the petroleum refining or petrochemical facility that it is to reuse wastewater from centralized wastewater treatment plants.

Worldwide, cities and townships are facing many complex wastewater treatment issues. Although centralized sewers are seen as a preferred solution to wastewater problems, areas with centralized sewers discharding to surface waters, have been identified as source of many pollution problems. Lack of sufficient, even basic treatment is a risk to public health.

Increasingly, ensuring resource security will go from being a local problem to a global challenge

Clean-up can

New Delhi: With the Delhi government setting aside Rs 1,500 crore for water and sanitation in its budget, Delhiites can expect an improved water supply in the coming year. However, the main project that promises water to Delhi and on which the government has spent nearly Rs 315 crore, continues to be a sore point between Delhi and Haryana.

Chandigarh: The Finance Minister

Every movement needs a poster boy. India's quest for securing its water needs could use Rajiv Mittal. At 49, the Managing Director of VA Tech Wabag, is one of the younger water entrepreneurs who are changing the way we treat the liquid that sustains our life.

THE Delhi Development Authority has been given environmental permission to go ahead with a Rs 34 crore housing project in Vasant Kunj. The rider: the project should have its own sewage treatment plant on site, with the housing society not only cleaning up its own sewage but also providing recycled water for nearby parks.

DJB Contracts Company For Job, Treatment Plant For Village Will Be Built

New Delhi: Delhi may not have drinking water but come October, athletes coming to the Commonwealth Games will be getting water of

Move to set up 3 more plants in a year's time.

About 100 million litres a day of treated water, equivalent to 10,000 tankers, will be sold to Mumbai's booming real estate sector and other industries.

Rahul Wadke

Seven water treatment and infrastructure companies have expressed interest in setting up Mumbai's first sewage-water treatment plant.

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