THANE: The Thane water polo team had to be content with silver at the state championship against host Pune that won 12-6.
"We gave our best but the defense line of the Pune team was much stronger, which thwarted us to get into the net. We had to be content with the runners-up title," said Uday Uttekar, a leading player from Thane.
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PUNE: The standing committee of Punemunicipal corporation has given approval for building seven water storage tanks as part of the scheme to procure water from BhamaAskhed dam for the city.
"Total seven tanks are to be built to start with. The tanks will be built in different areas on the Ahmednagar road. These areas include Kalas, Dhanori, Vadgaonsheri, Yerawada, Wagholi and Kharadi," said Bapu Karne, chairman of the standing committee. The committee took the decision in a meeting on Tuesday .
The Bhama Askhed project will have a 42-km pipeline from the dam to the Pune Municipal Corporation limits. Two km of the pipeline will be on private property. According to a government resolution, 1.3 TMC water from Bhama Askhed has been allocated to PMC to meet its drinking water needs.
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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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