AURANGABAD: Marathwada is the only region in the state which is being supplemented with hundreds of water tankers in the midst of the monsoon this year. As many as 559 villages and 365 hamlets from across the 76 talukas of the eight districts in the region are being supplied drinking water through tankers now.
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COIMBATORE: In an attempt to prevent river Cauvery going the Noyyal way, the state government is planning to explore the possibility of replicating the zero liquid discharge formula and Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) for the dyeing and bleaching units functioning in Erode.
State minister for Environment and Pollution Control, Thoppu ND Venkatachalam, reviewed the situation in Erode and Namakkal districts on Sunday morning along with senior officials from the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board and respective district administrations. As of now, they are floating a proposal for the installation of a CETP in Erode and another one along Komarapalayam and Pallipalayam near Namakkal district. The stakeholders of dyeing and bleaching units also participated in a joint sitting with the officials during which it was decided that the state would release an interest-free financial package for the setting up of the said CETP units.
"We decided to conduct the review meeting to analyse the situation and hold a discussion with both stake holders and officials to devise a solution to prevent further pollution of River Cauvery. The major concern pertains to small and medium units that cannot set up their own effluent treatment plants. We plan to take the proposal to chief minister J Jayalalithaa who will make the final announcement," said Thoppu Venkatachalam.
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NEW DELHI: In a bid to increase use of treated effluent for irrigation, horticulture, construction etc, Delhi Jal Board has installed filling points at its major waste water treatment plants. It has also written to other government agencies, asking them to replace potable water with treated effluent for non-drinking uses.
DJB sources said filling points have been provided at the Kondli, Rithala, Coronation, Keshopur, Mehrauli and Okhla treatment plants. "The biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) of the treated effluent is less than 20 parts per mission while total suspended solids (TSS) are less than 30ppm, making it ideal for non-potable purposes. We are distributing 142.2 million gallons per day of treated effluent.
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GHAZIABAD: The proposed increase in supply of potable water for Ghaziabad and Noida residents under Ganga Action Plan Phase-II, which was set to begin in July, has now been pushed to August 15.
Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam (UPJN) is laying pipelines under railway tracks near ABES Engineering College in Ghaziabad for the water that originates from the Ganga in Haridwar. Box culverts have already been placed under the tracks and pipes are being fixed.
"There is some work pending in joining the pipes. We hope to conduct trial runs on the pipeline soon," said R K Agarwal, project manager, UPJN.
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HYDERABAD: A file pertaining to granting administrative sanction to five water-related projects at a cost of Rs 1,050 crore is gathering dust. Successive governments have been ignoring it, causing inconvenience to lakhs of citizens in LB Nagar, Serilingampally, Ramachandrapuram and Patancheru municipal circles.
The Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee (CSMC) in February had sanctioned Rs 1,050 crore under the transition phase of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) to the Hyderabad Metro Water Supply and Sewage Board (HMWS&SB) to complete five major projects.
The CSMC has cleared a comprehensive water supply scheme for GHMC Serilingampally circle at a cost of Rs 439.51 crore, water supply distribution network for LB Nagar circle at Rs 365.17 crore, laying a 1800 mm diametre pipeline from Osmansagar to Asifnagar water treatment plant (WTP) in place of the existing water conduit at Rs 109.039 crore, distribution network for Ramachandrapuram municipal circle at Rs 78.89 crore and water supply distribution network for Patancheru municipal circle at Rs 58.198 crore.
Following the sanction, the Water Board approached the then united AP government but its pleas fell on deaf ears. The model code of conduct came into force subsequently. They therefore knocked on the doors of the AP chief electoral officer (CEO) again to process the file on tender notification but to no avail. "After the Telangana government came into existence, we approached the MA&UD department and asked them to issue the necessary GOs regarding administrative sanction to the five projects," HMWS&SB projects director M Satyanarayana told TOI.
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