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The Jaipur Municipal Corporation is all set to become the first municipality in the country to use ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis technology to treat sewage water and make it available for industrial uses. The corporation is working on five sewage treatment plants in association with RUIDP and JDA. In fact, all the plants will be using environment-friendly technology and they will get carbon credit remittance to the tune of over Rs 35 lakh per annum. The treatment plants will remove various contaminants present in sewage. The effluent and stabilised sludge thus produced can be gainfully utilised for industrial and agricultural uses. As per the estimates of PHED, the total supply of water in the city is pegged at 350 million litres per day (MLD) and more than 80% of this quantity is converted in to sewage water after various uses. Now it has been contemplated by civic agencies to tap these waste water and treat them under the reuse and recycle mechanism in various STPs. The JMC in its Unit II STP, which is under construction at Delawas, has added the components of biogas-fed power plant and a fertilizer plant. Unit I, which is already operational, is an Asian Development Bank-funded venture in association with RUIDP. It has the biogas plant attached to it, but in the absence of power generation unit, presently the gases are burnt and wasted. The Unit 1 of Delawas has the capacity to handle 62.5 mld. It has a secondary treatment plant which produces irrigation water which is drained in to Ramchandrapura dam for the benefit of farmers of the catchment area.
source: Times of India
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Tags: carbon credits, Jaipur, municipal solid waste, reverse osmosis, untrafiltration
