PWD plan for waste water use at construction site

Panaji: When residents of two buildings in Campal flush their toilets in the near future, they need not feel a sense of guilt at tossing the state's precious resources down the drain.

If all goes well, PWD will pipe a small quantity of the 12.5 million litres daily (mld) of effluent water available at the sewage treatment (STP) at Tonca to the site where the two buildings are coming up for productive use, instead of flushing it wastefully into the Mandovi river.

Later, this pipeline to the construction site will be useful to supply water to the flats in the two buildings for flushing of toilets.

"We are in the process of floating a tender to lay a pipeline to Campal to allow the use of the water at the construction site," PWD executive engineer, Dilip Dhavalikar said.

PWD officials have claimed in the past that the STP effluent water is good enough for drinking. "The coliform and e coli parameters are important and they have to be nil. If the water is chlorinated in the final stage, then it can be used even for bathing," a source said.

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Water tanks to be built for Bhama Askhed project

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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Water tanks to be built for Bhama Askhed project

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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Marathwada suffers worst water crisis

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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Erode may soon get effluent treatment plant

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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