GANDHINAGAR: The Gujarat govt is all set to come out with a new water recycling coverage where civic businesses of its large towns and sophistication A municipalities (having inhabitants of multiple lakh) will likely be required to reuse each drop of handled water.
Speaking concerning the plan, state leader minister Vijay Rupani advised TOI that now not a drop of handled sewage water (from sewage treatment plant) will likely be discharged into drains. The handled water will instead be utilized by industries, agriculture, power crops and construction businesses.
“We’ll pop out with the brand new water recycling coverage, protecting our long term requirement of water in mind. This along side two other measures - putting in desalination crops in coastal areas and desilting of ponds below ogoing ‘Sujalam Sufalam’ programme - will go far in making water to be had to everybody in a sustainable manner”, said Rupani on Thursday.
The water recycling coverage will likely be applied in the state’s 8 municipal firms —Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Gandhinagar, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Junagadh and Jamnagar - and most of its Class A municipalities equivalent to Anand, Vapi, Valsad, Navsari, Patan, Palanpur, Bharuch and Mehsana.
“We’ll make it transparent that such handled water is probably not used for drinking objective. Use of handled water for other functions will not only save the groundwater but additionally ease the drive on Narmada river water,” said the manager minister while sharing main points of measures taken by way of the government to make the state drought proof.
Under the‘Sujalam Sufalam’ programme, the state had on its basis day on May 1 launched an enormous month-long desilting power to increase storage capacities of its current ponds across Gujarat. Besides involving local communities, cooperatives and Agricultural Produce Market Committees (APMCs), the government has additionally roped in large companies like L&T and NHAI to do the desilting works. In order to attract non-public companies against water conservation works, the state allowed them to use soil for construction works - a model which encouraged them to take in the desilting exercises at their own price. The desilted (fertile) top soil is on the other hand being given to villagers freed from price to use of their farms.
TOI visited different websites in villages of Gandhinagar districts where desilting and digging up of current ponds had been going on in complete pace to meet the deadline of May 31.
Rupani said the state would building up 11 lakh cubic feet of water storage capacity after final touch of the ongoing works prior to the onset of monsoon.
Officials, tracking works on the websites, said the prediction of good monsoon rainfall triggered the government to quickly devise its plan and set a deadline to finish it so that these ponds may just store rain water right through the June-September duration.
Besides desilting of ponds, the state equipment has additionally been engaged in river rejuvenation programme with an goal of recharging flooring water and keeping up flow of water in drying streams. At provide, the state businesses had been operating on nine.5 km stretch of Khari river, overlaying 3,537 hectares of catchment house.
A total of 36 tributaries had been identified for this objective. The tasks, including construction of take a look at dams, take a look at partitions and flooring water recharging constructions, will likely be carried out below MGNREGA.
(The correspondent visited the websites on invitation of Gujarat govt)
Speaking concerning the plan, state leader minister Vijay Rupani advised TOI that now not a drop of handled sewage water (from sewage treatment plant) will likely be discharged into drains. The handled water will instead be utilized by industries, agriculture, power crops and construction businesses.
“We’ll pop out with the brand new water recycling coverage, protecting our long term requirement of water in mind. This along side two other measures - putting in desalination crops in coastal areas and desilting of ponds below ogoing ‘Sujalam Sufalam’ programme - will go far in making water to be had to everybody in a sustainable manner”, said Rupani on Thursday.
The water recycling coverage will likely be applied in the state’s 8 municipal firms —Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Gandhinagar, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Junagadh and Jamnagar - and most of its Class A municipalities equivalent to Anand, Vapi, Valsad, Navsari, Patan, Palanpur, Bharuch and Mehsana.
“We’ll make it transparent that such handled water is probably not used for drinking objective. Use of handled water for other functions will not only save the groundwater but additionally ease the drive on Narmada river water,” said the manager minister while sharing main points of measures taken by way of the government to make the state drought proof.
Under the‘Sujalam Sufalam’ programme, the state had on its basis day on May 1 launched an enormous month-long desilting power to increase storage capacities of its current ponds across Gujarat. Besides involving local communities, cooperatives and Agricultural Produce Market Committees (APMCs), the government has additionally roped in large companies like L&T and NHAI to do the desilting works. In order to attract non-public companies against water conservation works, the state allowed them to use soil for construction works - a model which encouraged them to take in the desilting exercises at their own price. The desilted (fertile) top soil is on the other hand being given to villagers freed from price to use of their farms.
TOI visited different websites in villages of Gandhinagar districts where desilting and digging up of current ponds had been going on in complete pace to meet the deadline of May 31.
Rupani said the state would building up 11 lakh cubic feet of water storage capacity after final touch of the ongoing works prior to the onset of monsoon.
Officials, tracking works on the websites, said the prediction of good monsoon rainfall triggered the government to quickly devise its plan and set a deadline to finish it so that these ponds may just store rain water right through the June-September duration.
Besides desilting of ponds, the state equipment has additionally been engaged in river rejuvenation programme with an goal of recharging flooring water and keeping up flow of water in drying streams. At provide, the state businesses had been operating on nine.5 km stretch of Khari river, overlaying 3,537 hectares of catchment house.
A total of 36 tributaries had been identified for this objective. The tasks, including construction of take a look at dams, take a look at partitions and flooring water recharging constructions, will likely be carried out below MGNREGA.
(The correspondent visited the websites on invitation of Gujarat govt)
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