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Status of water treatment plants in India - A report on their operational status by the Central Pollution Control Board

This document  by the Central Pollution and Control Board (CPCB) describes the findings of a study that evaluated water treatment plants located across the country, for prevailing raw water quality, water treatment technologies, operational practices, chemical consumption and rejects management.

The report is subdivided into the following chapters:Read More

  • Introduction
  • Water quality and its consumption
  • Water treatment technologies
  • Effects of fluoride and arsenic and removal techniques
  • Operation and maintainance of water treatment plants
  • Water quality control and assessment
  • Results and discussion
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Status of water treatment plants in India - Central Pollution and Control Board1.63 MB
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Institutionalization of users' level - Water quality monitoring and surveillance in Gujarat - A report by WASMO

WASMOThis report by the Water and Sanitation Management Organization (WASMO) presents the impact of the Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance (WQM&S) Programme implemented in Gujarat, which focused on community involvement in assessing and evaluating water quality.

It has been found that waterborne diseases due to contaminated drinking water are rampant in the state of Gujarat along with chronic illnesses associated with the presence of chemical contaminants in the drinking water. Community involvement in managing water quality has been identified as an important step to deal with this situation. Read More

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A mid-term assessment - Sachetana drinking water plus project - Fluorosis Mitigation - BIRD-K - Mundargi taluk - Gadag district (Karnataka)

The Sachetana Drinking Water Plus project implemented by the BAIF Institute of Rural Development (BIRD-K), in three districts of Karnataka, aims to solve the problem of endemic fluorosis in the region, by providing an alternate source of water and by improving the quality of groundwater.Read More

This report is a mid-term assessment of the project in Mundargi taluk of Gadag district of Karnataka, undertaken to understand and document the decentralized fluoride mitigation strategy adopted in the project villages and to analyze the impact on the groundwater levels and water quality as a result of the project's efforts.

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Gadag, KA, India
Latitude: 15.428780, Longitude: 75.631279

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Fluoride contamination status of groundwater in Karnataka - Current Science

This article published in Current Science presents information on the state of flouride contamination of water in Karnataka. Fluoride is known to contaminate
groundwater reserves globally. Sporadic incidence of high fluoride content in
groundwater has been reported from India, China, Sri Lanka, West Indies, Spain,
Holland, Italy, Mexico, and North and South American countries.Read More

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Flouride contamination status of groundwater in Karnataka - S. Suma Latha, S. R. Ambika, S. J. Prasad - Current Science (1998)488.81 KB
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