India Water Review Greater Kailash, Delhi

The plan seems ambitious considering that the Indian Railways carried over 8.3 billion passengers during 2014-15, or about 23 million passengers a day.

While the Indore Municipal Corporation has considering adopting a model through which it plans to supply water to the residents on a 24X7 basis, the Bihar Government is undertaking a Rs 550 crore project for the purpose.

The order is for supply of 18 BioMover mixers for moving bed biofilm reactors (MBBR) for an advanced water treatment plant in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. Landia manufactures heavy-duty chopper pumps, submersible mixers, jet-aerators and advanced process units.

Interestingly, eight Indian projects had made it to the shortlist of the top 10 projects of the Challenge, which was a UK-India Social Entrepreneurship Education Network (UKISEEN) initiative. Overall, there were 50 submissions by students from universities throughout the UK and India.

The packaged drinking water market in India is expected to witness launch of many new brands in coming weeks, with Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Ayurved set to launch its bottled drinking water Divya Jal even as global packaged foods and nutrition major Nestle saying it would foray into new categories including water.

“The company will be devoting resources towards products that have the potential to emerge winners on both national and regional scale......As for venturing into new categories, Nestle India would enter categories with global presence...Key global categories for Nestle like water, coffee machine and pet care are being evaluated for launch in India,” a report by Edelweiss Securities said.

Industry official said Patanjali has the potential to gather as much as 10 per cent of the overall market in the first year or so of its launch. Bisleri is currently the leader in the bottled water market with an estimated 24 per cent value share.

Experts underlined the need to generate hydropower through such multipurpose projects, saying that multi-purpose dams typically combined hydropower generation with water storage for irrigation or water supply.

The proposed desalination plant would have a capacity of 100 million litre per day (MLD) and the company is looking to acquire 20-25 acres of land for it. IDE is considering making the investment for the desalination plant over the next two years through its wholly-owned Indian subsidiary IDE Technology India Pvt Ltd.

The public as well as the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is causing direct contamination of groundwater and the municipal waste disposal and management is not organised in the city, CGWB scientist Dr M A Farooqui said while delivering a lecture on 'Ground water management in Bangalore Metropolitan region' at the Geological Society of India on May 25.

The bottled water sector is also expected to see regional players expand their capacities. One such company, Gujarat-based Sheelpe Enterprises said recently it was looking to invest Rs 100 crore for setting up another bottling unit in the state and was scouting for strategic investors to expand its footprint.

System manufacturers and service providers like the Arad Group-Technochem combine typically tie up with local partners like SPML Infra that bag contracts to install water meters across Indian cities. The Arad Group has also tied up with several leading names in India, including L&T and Jindals.

Through a combined cash-and-debt deal, Mexichem will gain access to Netafim’s smart irrigation technology that includes digital crop management and automation systems that help reduce water and nutrient usage.

The Sorek plant is capable of producing 624,000 cubic metre per day (m3day) of potable water, of which 540,000 m3day are currently supplied to Israel’s water distribution system. There is provision for future extension of the desalination plant, which is located south of Tel Aviv, the second most populous city and the largest metropolitan area in Israel.

Justice Vipin Sanghi on June 4 sought the stand of Dikshit, who is also DJB Chairperson, CEO Debashree Mukherjee and Member (Finance) Prashant Goel and Member (Water) Brij Mohan Dhol on a plea to launch contempt of court proceedings against them by Indian Water Meter Manufacturers Association.

Union Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Minister Ram Vilas Paswan indicated through the social media that an explanation has been sought from companies selling packaged mineral water in different MRPs at various places. This follows several complaints being received by a consumer forum under the Ministry that different MRPs were being charged for packaged mineral water at different places.

A Euromonitor report of 2015 had put India’s per capita consumption at 13 litre, about one-fifth of China’s per capita consumption of 62 litres. In 2016, bottled water sales in India were estimated to be to the tune of Rs 7040 crore, with the trade volume of 4.4 billion litre.

Several Indian cities are exploring the option of installing automatic water meters to their active domestic and other consumer categories in a bid to prevent water wastage and shore up revenues.

This indigenisation is a reverse engineering project We manufacture High Pressure Valves of Air Primer. Valve consists of a body and shut off mechanism inside the body. Body has through axial holes of different diameters over the length. Lower part the hole is 8 mm in dia, the remaining part is of 22 mmin dia. (MOC – SS). The upper part of the body is provided with female thread for securing stem assembly and male thread for fastening the valveon the bottle. From one side and under the body there is a connection with male threads for attaching to the pipe lines. The shut off mechanism consist of valve assembly with a pad made of polyamide resin, stem assembly (MOC - MS), bushing (MOC – Gun Metal), gasket (MOC - Copper), spring (MOC – Case hardened steel) with packing . The stem assembly in its turn has a nut, stem, ball and pivot journal. Hand wheel assembly is fixed by nut on the square end of stem for opening and closing of the valve. The air leakage from the valve is prevented by a seal and made in movable and fixed joint. The movable joint of valve end and bushing are sealed by rubber rings. Valve assemblies have tested for the leak tightness by compressed air at a pressure of 400 kgf/cm² and hydraulic test for strength at a hydraulic pressure of 600 kgf/cm²