With a view to meeting the future water supply requirements of the growing population of Gurgaon, the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) will construct a second water treatment plant for the city at a cost of Rs 86.44 crore.

Point of use (PSU) reverse osmosis (RO) drinking water systems and point of entry (POE) ion exchange water softeners are two of the most universal water treatment technologies used today for residential and commercial locations. However, these systems have operational characteristics that limit their use if installed in water short regions of the world.

Be it health, water, cleanliness or alcohol consumption, villages in rural Maharashtra are witnessing a silent movement in the last few years, thanks to the women sarpanches at the helm.

The survey revealed the fact that in India, alum is used for the improvement of effluent quality but the work on alum recovery and reuse is fragmentary. Therefore this work emphasized on recovery of alum from sludge and its reuse for waste water treatment. Various methods have been reported for treatment and disposal of alum sludge.

In this study the treatment of simulated hexamine wastewater in a lab-scale, subsurface up-ward flow root zone system was investigated.

The effect of irrigation by the effluent of paper industry versus well water on properties of soils in three seasons was studied in Nagpur district, Maharashtra. The effluent had high total dissolved salts and biological oxygen demand than well water.

A 15 million-gallon water treatment plant coming up in Garden Reach promises to ease water woes of Behala, Thakurpukur and the adjacent localities.

The Calcutta Metropolitan Water and Sanitation Authority (CMWSA) project is expected to be ready in a year and a half.

River Above Danger Mark But Many Refuse To Move
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New Delhi: The Yamuna once again attained threatening proportions on Monday as the river crossed the danger mark of 204.83 m. Several low lying areas along the bank were evacuated and hundreds of slum dwellers took shelter along the main Yamuna Pushta road.

Biodiversity Conservation India Limited (bcil), which was set up in Bangalore in 1995 by Chandrashekar Hariharan, is known for its eco-friendly sustainable homes like tzed and TownsEnd. The company has its roots in the ngo background of its promoters who, for many years, worked on basic resources of water and energy with the Academy for Mountain Environics.

The scope of this paper is safe and sustainable sanitation in agriculture. Specifically, the idea of the paper is to find out the existing regulations and guidelines concerning a sustainable wastewater management in the European Union (EU), regarding small-scale on-site wastewater management, and particularly regarding the safe reuse of the source separated wastewater

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