Drinking water crisis in Telangana & Andhra Pradesh due to rise in demand

30 towns of states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are moaning in the thirst of drinking water as the water levels have dropped to the alarming level of 64 tmc feet in the two major reservoirs of Srisailam and Nagarjunasagar. The Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) has allocated only 4 tmc water against the requirement of 5 tmc feet water to extinguish thirst of about one crore people in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) limits.

Every town has the dependency upon the fresh inflows in the left and right canals of Nagarjunasagar which is further dependent upon both sides of river Krishna. The release of water from Nagarjunasagar got delayed as there was no water release from Srisailam dam. Agriculture demand has also risen due to the ongoing Rabi season and farmers have also started disporting water in every manner they can.

On January 10, 2017, there was a shortage of 6.16 tmc feet water from the total available water as stated by KRMB officials. While AP claims that it had utilised 39.75 tmc, and Telangana got 19.5 tmc in the month of December. However, the attempts to curb the crisis can be made by introducing Effluent Treatment Plants (ETP) and Waste Water Treatment Plants (WWTP) on the large scale. The recycling of waste water became a necessity to tackle the drinking water crisis.

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/30-t-ap-towns-face-drinking-water-crisis-as-demand-rises/articleshow/56530094.cms

wastage of water goes on unabated

Gurgaon: The Huda had notified on Sunday that in the wake of acute water shortage, an FIR would be lodged against anyone wasting water in the city. But, residents in many parts of the city were found violating the order and wasting water by washing vehicles or watering gardens.

"When I was leaving for work on Monday morning, I saw that huge amount of water being wasted for washing cars and watering the plants in our locality," said Vaibhav Rastogi, a resident of Sector 56.

Source – TOI - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/gurgaon/Wastage-of-water-goes-on-unabated/articleshow/51202406.cms

sewage and dirty water from resorts and colonies being directly dumped into sea

VISAKHAPATNAM: Instead of beach beautification, prominent Vizag beaches are turning obnoxious with every passing day. After garbage and litter and direct disposal of sewerage into sea at the RK Beach area, now, untreated sewerage and dirty water from resorts and colonies are being directly dumped into the sea stretch from Rushikonda to Sagarnagar.

Trenches have been dug for the purpose by a resort at Rushikonda Beach and by the Sagarnagar colony residents at Sagarnagar beach for the purpose. This has become a major turnoff for tourists, especially foreigners who like to go surfing at Rushikonda in that particular area. Besides, water pollution is also endangering the lives of fish and other aquatic creatures.

A few days ago, regular beach goers noticed a trench being dug in front of a private resort adjacent to the Coast Guard office. Soon dirty water and sewage started flowing into the sea barely 100 metres away. Sources from the Waveriders Surf School said since July 9, the trench was being dug and sewerage from the private resort was let into the sea directly.

Source – TOI - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/visakhapatnam/Sewage-dumping-rampant-on-beaches/articleshow/48077886.cms

water shortage in villages of banaskantha

Palanpur: Water supply to as many as 139 villages of Banaskantha district and municipal areas of Ambaji, Vadagam and Palanpur will be suspended for next 3-4 days due to the ongoing work on the water pipeline in Danta taluka about 60km from here. The supply to these areas was suspended from Friday morning.
"Connection work from old to new underground water storage is over. However, connectivity work is going on at Amba Ghat of Danta taluka," said executive engineer water supply and sewerage board of Palanpur MD Thakkar.

Sources at Palanpur said the old underground storage tank with 40 lakh litre of storage capacity is being replaced with the new underground water tank with 60 lakh liters of storage capacity.

Source – TOI - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/rajkot/No-water-in-139-villages-of-Banaskantha/articleshow/51274963.cms

sewage toxifying ground water

HYDERABAD: The recent spate of moderate to heavy rains in the city may have boosted the groundwater levels by at least half a metre, but a new report reveals that the water thus recharged is highly contaminated with fluorides, nitrates and large quantities of iron.

A report on the state's groundwater profile by the Central Groundwater Board (CGWB) says harmful chemicals are present in the water beyond the permissible limits. "It is bad news for the people as the report mentions a rise in the nitrate levels in the water. The basic source of nitrates in water sources is from sewerage, which seeps from improperly built septic tanks," Dr Shakeel Ahmed, chief scientist, National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), told TOI.

Source – TOI - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/pollution/Groundwater-turning-toxic-with-sewage/articleshow/49020804.cms

water harvesting in villages

NASHIK: Gitanjali Avhad, the first woman sarpanch of the Ahmednagar district was recently selected by the state government to be a part of a study tour on water harvesting. Avhad, the sarpanch of Chincholi village, was selected for the tour on the basis of her work in her jurisdiction. She is the only woman in the team of 30 sarpanchs from across the state who will be a part of this study tour.
"I was informed recently that I was selected in the team of 30 sarpanchs in the state for a study tour on water harvesting. Of the 30, 15 will be going to south for studying water harvesting there and 15 will be going to north. I am the first lady sarpanch to be selected out of the three other lady sarpanchs from the Ahmednagar district," Avhad said.

Source – TOI - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nashik/Sarpanch-to-study-water-harvesting/articleshow/51299221.cms

tmc unequal water distribution

Thane: The NCP has threatened to protest the TMC's skewed water distribution formula where it has left residents of Kalwa, Mumbra and Diva residents to face cuts for over three days while neighbouring Thane enjoys lesser curtailments. The development starved enclaves of Kalwa, Mumbra and Diva have been forced to go without water for over three days after the MIDC recently imposed 60-hour0-long cuts following directives from the state irrigation department.

Source - TOI - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/thane/Unequal-water-distribution-by-TMC/articleshow/51316050.cms

Waste Water, Effluents, Sewage and squatters threaten Hindon

The Hindon river starts as Shivaliks from Saharanpur crosses through six districts, Muzaffarnagar, Shamli, Meerut, Baghpat, Ghaziabad and Noida. Water of Hindon river is then further taken into Yamuna which includes waste water of all these districts Hindon crosses through. As per the tests, the Ghaziabad and Noida has mojar role in polluting Hindon, which is being denied by the pollution control officials in respective cities and putting the blame for toxins in the Hindon on Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Shamli, Meerut and Baghpat districts.

Baghel says, "Migratory birds have disappeared from Hindon's banks. There are only three effluent treatment plants in Ghaziabad, treating 100 megaliters per day in total. Over 300 megalitres per day of waste flows into the river untreated." Environmentalists say that aquatic life, including fish, which help to reduce pollution by eating bio-pollutants, have all disappeared in the river between Ghaziabad and Noida and heavy metals like chromium, lead, arsenic and mercury are poisoning the groundwater.

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Industry bodies seek sewage and effluent treatment project

At the recent meeting of the Zilla Udyog Mitra, Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation to set up a effluent treatment plant in Nashik on request of industrial bodies. Executive engineer of MIDC said, "The Sinnar industrial estate falls under the engineering zone. As per the MIDC policy, there is no need of a CETP project in Sinnar." The MIDC is already in the process of inviting tender for roads and streetlight repair work.

Source – TOI - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nashik/Industry-bodies-seek-effluent-treatment-project-at-Sinnar/articleshow/46731912.cms.

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State bodies to check effluents and sewage

MCG and HUDA are directed to check the discharge of effluents at sewage treatment plants (STPs) in all Haryana districts including Gurgaon. Real-time effluent monitoring systems are set up to treat the sewage water. HUDA and Haryana State Industrial & Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) Ltd are looking into sewage treatment facilities and proper functioning of ETPs and STPs. Senior scientific advisor at Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) said that 75% of the sewage water generated in the state is treated by STPs. MCG commissioner Vikas Yadav said apart from keeping a check on their 30 million-litre-per-day STP, another 50 MLD STP will be installed.

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Stop polluting Ganga or shut shop: Uma Bharti

Government is now serious about river Ganga and directed the polluting industries to set up online effluent monitoring system by 31^st march next year. This tough message to polluting units is said by water resources minister Uma Bharti. "If the child (industry) would suck mother's (Ganga) blood, she would prefer the mother to survive", said Bharti. Her remarks came after several rounds of consultation with representatives of polluting industries. Environment minister Prakash Javadekar and many experts including Vinod Tare, coordinator of IIT Consortium that is preparing the Ganga River Basin Management Plan and R K Pachauri, director general of TERI and chairman of the UN's IPCC — attended the consultations and pitched for quick action to save the river. The online effluent monitoring will bring the transparency in the process of monitoring. As per the new system, the industries are required to install "continuous effluent and emission monitoring devices" at their discharge outlets and this devices would be linked online with State Pollution Control Boards (SPCBs) offices in state capitals and with the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) headquarters in Delhi. It will allow the central pollution watchdog to monitor the discharges from the industries on real-time basis.

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Sewage treatment plant (Industrial STP System) helps in removing contaminants from wastewater and household effluent, both runoff (effluents) and domestic. It includes physical, chemical, and biological processes to remove physical, chemical and biological contaminants. Its objective is to produce an environmentally safe fluid waste stream (or treated effluent) and a solid waste (or treated sludge) suitable for disposal or reuse (usually as farm fertilizer).

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Reverse osmosis (used in RO Systems) is a membrane-technology filtration method that removes many types of large molecules and ions from solutions by applying pressure to the solution when it is on one side of a selective membrane. The result is that the solute is retained on the pressurized side of the membrane and the pure solvent is allowed to pass to the other side. To be "selective," this membrane should not allow large molecules or ions through the pores (holes), but should allow smaller components of the solution (such as the solvent) to pass freely. In the normal osmosis process, the solvent naturally moves from an area of low solute concentration (High Water Potential), through a membrane, to an area of high solute concentration (Low Water Potential). The movement of a pure solvent to equalize solute concentrations on each side of a membrane generates osmotic pressure.

MCG is to set up sewage and effluent treatment plant in villages of GURGAON

GURGAON: MCG is now going to install a low-capacity sewage treatment plant (STP) and effluent treatment plant (ETP) in every village that comes under its jurisdiction. The existing STP plant and ETP plant are not able to handle the load that’s why the new plan is being formulated to setup sewage treatment plant for each and every village and the cost for this is also being discussed. The MCG had already come under severe criticism for failing to increase the capacity of the existing plant. The untreated sewage is now flowing into the Yamuna River.

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Modi-Obama meet: US to help India develop three smart cities

The successful and satisfactory visit to US by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has come up with a great deal to help India to develop three smart cities - Allahabad, Ajmer and Visakhapatnam. Apart from this, provide clean water and sewage facilities in 500 cities in the country. This deal will surely help the Indian government’s plan of developing 100 smart cities and in this regards a large amount of Rs. 7,060 crore was proposed in the Union Budget.

Read more here – TOI - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Modi-Obama-meet-US-to-help-India-develop-three-smart-cities/articleshow/43981483.cms

Trial run of sewage interceptor sewage project to start on Friday

NEW DELHI: The contentious interceptor sewage project, conceptualized by Delhi Jal Board as the answer to the Yamuna's pollution problem, is finally set to be rolled out. The trial run for the first phase of the project, involving interception of 9 million gallons per day of sewage in the Palam drain as it flows into the Najafgarh drain, will begin on Friday and will be commissioned within the next two weeks.

The project involves laying of parallel channels along the three major drains of Delhi—Najafgarh, Supplementary and Shahdara drains. These will intercept sewage from the several smaller drains that flow into these three drains, carrying it to the nearest sewage treatment plant and discharging the treated effluent back into the main drains before they meet the Yamuna.

Read more here - TOI - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/trial-run-of-sewage-interceptor-sewage-project-to-start-on-friday/articleshow/41723038.cms

 

Sewage flowing on Ayodhya Nagar road

Nagpur: People staying in Dattatray Nagar, a part of Ayodhya Nagar in South Nagpur, are fearing outbreak of vector-borne diseases in their area. The area is grappling with mosquito menace and hygiene issues due to overflowing sewage for the last 4-5 days, highlighting negligence of Nagpur Municipal Corporation in ensuring quality work from private contractors.

A resident of Ayodhya Nagar, New Subedar road Vijay Bhaturkar told TOI that they are mainly worried about the students of NMC Dattatray Nagar School in the locality. "NMC laid new sewage line in our locality. However, instead of flowing underground, the sewage started overflowing on the road from chambers. The overflow starts in the morning, submerging the road. This is happening for the last four-five days and nobody from NMC is paying attention," he said.

Read more here - TOI - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Sewage-flowing-on-Ayodhya-Nagar-road/articleshow/42929693.cms

Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation fails to clear Rs 11 crore water dues

HYDERABAD: In yet another row between two government agencies, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) has threatened to stop drinking water supply to several areas unless the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) coughs up Rs 11.26 crore dues.

The water board had in 2009 taken up the responsibility of supplying drinking water through tankers to the 12 GHMC surrounding municipal circles of Alwal, Kapra, Kukatpally, L B Nagar, Gaddiannaram, Malkajgiri, Patancheru, Qutubullapur, Rajendranagar, Ramachandrapuram, Serilingampally and Uppal.

Read more here - TOI - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Greater-Hyderabad-Municipal-Corporation-fails-to-clear-Rs-11-crore-water-dues/articleshow/42946331.cms

AG exposes Karnataka’s contradictory stand on Mhadei Water Dispute

PANAJI/KERI: The Karnataka government's record in water disputes is a bundle of contradictions, as it is fighting against any diversion of water from the Krishna Godavari basin, but aggressively pursuing a project to link Mhadei's tributaries to the Malaprabha basin, advocate general of the state Atmaram Nadkarni stated before the Mhadei water disputes tribunal.

While pointing out that the Karnataka government has countered such proposals by neighbouring states before the Krishna and Godavari tribunals, contending that there cannot be diversion outside the basin, Nadkarni stated that they are precisely trying to do the same here by diverting Kalasa and other tributaries from Mhadei to link them to the Malaprabha basin.

The state government, which has locked horns with Karnataka over the water dispute, has also succeeded in getting an order from the tribunal to inspect the documents furnished by Karnataka in its dispute over Krishna Godavari water.

Read more here - TOI - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/AG-exposes-Karnatakas-contradictory-stand-on-Mhadei-Water-Dispute/articleshow/42928900.cms

2 workers die after inhaling poisonous gas in sewage pit

CHENNAI: Two workers died after inhaling toxic gas in a sewage pit at a Metrowater facility in Kodungaiyur on Saturday morning during maintenance. 

The victims were part of four workers engaged by a contractor for maintenance work in the 10-feet-deep pit maintained by Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board or Metrowater. The gas is suspected to have spewed out after a valve in the pit was opened. 

Nandakumar, who went in first, fainted. Seeing him slump to the ground at the bottom of the pit, Jayakumar, who was not aware his colleague had inhaled toxic gases, jumped down to rescue him and met with the same fate. One of the two others standing above was also affected and was taken to a hospital. Security guards of nearby apartment complexes alerted the fire and rescue services, and teams from Manali and Madhavaram arrived. Police too rushed to the spot.
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Ban on effluent discharge on open land

BHARUCH: District administration has banned discharge of effluent water on land other than sites notified by Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB). A notification was brought out by Collector Vinod Rao after recent incidents of tankers caught while discharging effluent waste into open lands in the district. The notification says that strict action will be initiated against culprit industries and tanker owners violating the notification.
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