Water Treatment Technology

Judgment of the National Green Tribunal regarding plywood factories operating in Yamuna Nagar, Haryana, 27/05/2025

Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …

Adsorption studies of fluoride on activated carbon derived from royal gulmohar fruit shell

The removal of fluoride from synthetic sample by adsorption on activated carbon prepared from gulmohar fruit shell was studied to determine the effects of dosages and pH accordingly to equilibrium and kinetics. The removal of fluoride by adsorption was studied on two types of carbons i.e., physically activated and chemically …

Surveillance of treated water quality at underground reservoirs (UGRs) and user's end

The goal of any water treatment plant is to supply safe drinking water to the consumers. This study was conducted to generate a scientific Water Quality (WQ) data at treatment plant, underground reservoirs (UGRs) and consumer's end at seven municipalities for a period of fifteen months.

For pure water

  large amounts of distilled water are needed in research labs. But the production process requires a continuous flow of water. Faced with growing water wastage in their lab, Munnalal, Sitaram and Jagat, a group of lab assistants at the Banaras Hindu University, have come up with an ingenious solution for …

Water business

the Department of Drinking Water Supply (ddws) on July 20 invited private standalone water purifying companies to showcase latest technologies and equipment. The government wants to install 30,000 water purifying systems in rural schools to provide children with safe drinking water. About 84,000 schools in rural India do not have …

Way to rid water of arsenic found

UK Scientists Develop Technology That Can Provide Safe Water To Millions in India London: British scientists claim to have found a solution to the world

Army laboratory develops water purifier & soft drink

Manoj Anand IN WHAT MAY help the civil society in overcoming the water-related problems, the Defence Research Laboratory has created a unique water treatment plant that can bring down the excessive arsenic, floride and iron content of the ground water to an acceptable limit. The director of the laboratory Mr …

Oridonin confers protection against arsenic-induced toxicity through activation of the Nrf2-mediated defensive response

Groundwater contaminated with arsenic imposes a big challenge to human health worldwide. Using natural compounds to subvert the detrimental effects of arsenic represents an attractive strategy. The transcription factor nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) is a critical regulator of the cellular antioxidant response and xenobiotic metabolism. Recently, activation …

A new water filter for floods

Availability of potable water under emergency situations like flood will soon be a reality. For researchers of the Geo-Environment Division of the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) have come up with a water filter for such purposes. The water filter, called NEERI-ZAR and designed by Mr Subhash Andey, Mr …

Facing the freshwater crisis

As demand for freshwater soars, planetary supplies are becoming unpredictable. Existing technologies could avert a global water crisis, but they must be implemented soon.

Status of water treatment plants in India

The raw water quality available in India varies significantly, resulting in modifications to the conventional water treatment scheme consisting of aeration, chemical coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration and disinfection. The backwash water and sludge generation from water treatment plants are of environment concern in terms of disposal. Therefore, optimization of chemical …

ICRC closes water supply programme in AJK

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has announced closure of its water supply programme initiated by it in Azad Jammu and Kashmir in response to the October 2005 earthquake. According to a handout released here on Thursday, the agency had rehabilitated and reconstructed over 40 rural water supply …

MoU signed on community safe drinking water in Haryana

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Government on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Hyderabad-based Naandi Foundation to implement a pilot project on community safe drinking water systems in select villages in the State in a phased manner. The MoU was signed by Haryana Commissioner and Secretary, Public Works Department (Water …

Water purifiers offer no safety against contamination

By Prabuddh Banerjee Despite tall claims by producers of water purifiers, most of them fail to ensure safe drinking water for the household. Our drinking water is supposed to deliver essential nutrients and minerals needed for healthy life. It should help maintain acidic levels in our body and natural streams …

German formula for rejuvenating lakes

K. Venkateshwarlu HYDERABAD: All but reduced to cesspools, restoration of polluted, filth-ridden lakes, ponds and wells has always been a challenging, time-consuming and expensive process. Not anymore, as a novel German technique promises to make the clean-up process a little bit easy. A German group, Lavaris Lake, has come up …

Ecorestoration of ponds, lakes and rivers using BIOSANITIZER ecotechnology

Nature knows better how to keep the water sources clean and nourishing. Our traditions, also could maintain their water sources for the past 10,000 years. Water quality problems and water scarcity- both are due to pollution of air, caused by increase in the use of fossil fuels. This produces rain …

Water purification systems to be installed in 30,000 rural schools

It uses most efficient technology with low power Provisions for use in areas without electrification Product display: Features of a product being explained by a company executive at a stall in the exhibition in Chennai on Sunday. CHENNAI: Under the Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission, the Union Ministry of …

Hospitals and hotels told to recycle water

Bindu Shajan Perappadan Bid to ensure that commercial establishments own up their responsibility for conserving the resourc "Take the steps in a phased manner to ensure 100% compliance' Sir Ganga Ram Hospital has already installed a water treatment plant NEW DELHI: It could soon become mandatory for large hospitals and …

Congenital defects

treating drinking tap water with chlorine makes it bacteria-free. But its by-products may increase the risk of abnormalities among newborns, says a recent study. Researchers studied data on 400,000 infants in Taiwan and by products of chlorine in the water separately from 2001-03. Using these two sets of data, the …

Parched Goa

Mining waste jams water treatment plants lakhs of people in Tiswadi and Ponda talukas of North Goa are facing water shortage because mining activities in the catchment area of Opa Water Treatment Plant in Ponda are hampering the plant

Analysis of pipe flow & head loss of a modeled network based on EPANET in a water treatment plant at Raipur, West Bengal

The study has been carried out in two phases. In the first phase, a model of pipe network is developed based on EPANET (Version 2.0) in such a way that the modeled flow data for various zonal overhead reservoirs takes almost equal fill up times by adjusting the flow control …

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