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Metrowater taps all resources to quench Chennai’s thirst – Chennai

Aware of the grim water situation facing the city, Metrowater has initiated about a dozen measures, including erection of new borewells with power pumps, setting up additional filling points and extending operation of tanker lorries. The most serious problem surrounds the level of water in the reservoirs at Poondi, Cholavaram, Red Hills and Chembarambakkam.

Cholavaram, the smallest with a total capacity of 1,081 million cubic feet, on Friday had a mere 9 million cubic feet of water. Officials had stopped the drawing from its dead […]

Metrowater taps all resources to quench Chennai’s thirst – Chennai2019-05-04T13:25:59+02:00

Chennai: Metrowater starts to draw from farm wells – Chennai

Metrowater has started drawing 15 million litres a day from 300 wells on agricultural land it has leased in Tiruvallur, Tamarapakkam and Minjur to meet the city’s water needs.

Metrowater managers say the supply situation isn’t too bad with 180 million litres a day piped from Veeranam lake and an equal quantity from the two desalination plants too, but cause for worry is the depletion of the groundwater table in the city.

If needed, more water could be drawn from […]

Chennai: Metrowater starts to draw from farm wells – Chennai2019-05-01T16:53:19+02:00

Veeranam lake turns a major water supplier for Chennai – Chennai – India

The Veeranam lake that was dug more than 1,000 years ago by the Chola kings in the then South Arcot district of Tamil Nadu has become a saviour for the city. Many residents are unaware that the lake meets more than 35% of city’s water requirement. Now, the lake is brimming with water due to the release from Mettur dam.

The released water reached the lake last Wednesday. This is the second time the lake is full to its maximum capacity in the last one year, said […]

Veeranam lake turns a major water supplier for Chennai – Chennai – India2019-04-20T10:03:12+02:00

India takes to solar-powered desalination – India

India has joined the nations using PV to produce drinking water after a 10,000-liters-per-day solar-powered desalination plant was set up at the Vivekananda Memorial in Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu.

The plant was developed by a team from the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) and the Ministry of Earth Sciences funded the Rs1.22 crore ($175,000) experimental project.

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India takes to solar-powered desalination – India2019-04-09T13:52:19+02:00

Chennai to get 500 million cubic feet of water from Mettur – Chennai – India

The State government has decided to provide the city with an extra supply of around 500 mcft of Cauvery water, a portion of which was released from the Mettur dam on Sunday night, and is expected to reach Veeranam tank in Cuddalore in 10-12 days.

With just less than 700 mcft of water left in all four reservoirs of the city, supply of Cauvery water comes at a crucial time as the city is slipping into a severe drought situation.

Chennai to get 500 million cubic feet of water from Mettur – Chennai – India2019-04-02T15:15:34+02:00

IIT-Madras sets up India’s 1st solar-powered desalination plant – India

CHENNAI: The technology behind desalination plants may appear simple extract seawater, remove salt, make freshwater but operating such plant is a power intensive and can also pollute the environment through toxic brine (salts) effluents.

After it was realized that the solution to tackling water scarcity lay in seawater and the Sun, a team has now set up the country’s first solar-powered desalination plant, with a capacity to generate 10,000 litres of freshwater a day, on 120sqm near Vivekananda Memorial at Kanyakumari.

The […]

IIT-Madras sets up India’s 1st solar-powered desalination plant – India2019-03-21T08:56:52+01:00

Wastewater Recycling and Reuse in India – India

India’s growth story has been impressive so far with industry and service sectors being the growth drivers. Along with industrial and population growth, the demand for water also increases.

Unpredictable rainfall patterns because of climate change, depleting water resources because of extreme groundwater extraction, contamination of available surface/groundwater resources due to discharge of untreated sewage, and/or industry effluents have had an impact on water quantity and quality.

Per capita water availability is expected to reach 1,140 cubic meters by […]

Wastewater Recycling and Reuse in India – India2019-03-14T12:44:07+01:00

LTTD-based desalination plant to come up at Thoothukudi? – India

With thermal power plants being the largest industrial users of water and exceedingly contributing to water-stress, Chennai-based National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) has come out with a novel concept of using coolant water discharge from power plants to produce fresh water.

Thoothukudi Thermal Power Station will be the first in the country to have an in-house 2 MLD (million litres per day) desalination plant based on Low Temperature Thermal Desalination (LTTD) technology.

This assumes significance as the Thoothukudi power […]

LTTD-based desalination plant to come up at Thoothukudi? – India2019-03-08T08:58:07+01:00

MRPL’s seawater desalination plant gets CRZ clearance – Mangaluru

The Expert Appraisal Committee for Projects related to Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) of the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has recommended CRZ clearance to the State’s first reverse osmosis-based seawater desalination plant proposed by Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd. (MRPL).

Headed by Deepak Arun Apte, the committee in its 207th meeting on January 25 said that the clearance was subject to MRPL ensuring temporary structures installed for laying pipelines for the 70 million litre per day (MLD)-capacity plant are removed within one month of […]

MRPL’s seawater desalination plant gets CRZ clearance – Mangaluru2019-02-12T05:46:33+01:00
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