Degremont Wins two contracts worth Euro 41 mn in India

Degrémont has won two DBO (design, build, operate) contracts for two wastewater treatment plants in New Delhi and Bangalore, India's Silicon Valley. This investment is part of the Yamuna Action Plan II, a bilateral project between the Indian and Japanese governments aimed at rehabilitating the quality of water in the Yamuna River, which provides over 70% of New Delhi's water needs. The Delhi Jal Board has awarded Degrémont a DBO contract to build an urban wastewater treatment plant at Delhi Gate Nalla with a capacity of 70,000 m3 per day. The new plant will take two years to build, followed by 11 years of operation and maintenance for a total sum of approximately Euro 29 million. The treated wastewater will be reused as make-up water by local industries and the Delhi Gate Nalla power plant.  will equip the plant with two flagship technologies: Densadeg, a robust, condensed and multipurpose decantation process, and Biofor, a compact fixed-biological-culture treatment system, enabling the plant's surface area to be limited to 25,000 m2. The Bangalore Water Supply & Sewerage Board has awarded Degrémont a DBO contract worth EURO 12 million for a tertiary wastewater treatment plant with a capacity of 40,000m3/day at Raja Canal. Following the design and construction phase, which is scheduled to last 15 months, Degrémont will be responsible for operating and maintaining the plant for five years.

Enough water for Mysore and Bangalore

Here is a few excellent news for folks of Mysore, metropolis and different cities and villages looking on KRS and Kabini dams for water. Despite scanty rain and Tamil Nadu's demand for water, folks have enough water to drink and authorities appear to own taken care of their necessities, say consultants.

An engineer within the water resource department aforesaid there was no want for folks of this region to fret as way as water offer thinks about. "The downside arises only it involves activity water to fields," he said, adding that at the moment the storage isn't solely enough for water however will even facilitate farmers grow one semi-dry crop.

But issues can arise once farmers want water to grow paddy, sugarcane and different water-intensive crops ,the engineer noted, adding that crisis ought to be resolved solely by evolving a water-sharing formula throughout drought. additionally to metropolis and Mysore, quite twenty cities and regarding four hundred villages placed downstream these 2 rivers ar keen about Cauvery and Kabini rivers for his or her water wants. just about one large integer folks consume water from these 2 rivers and this variety might prime one.25 large integer within the close to future if all the continued comes to provide additional water to metropolis, Mysore and different cities from these 2 rivers ar completed.

According to sources, metropolis gets regarding three hundred cu secs of water whereas Mysore receives fifty cusecs daily. metropolis receives a pair of.58 tmcft of water annually and Mysore gets zero.15 tmcft of water from these 2 rivers.

On completion of the continued Kabini water project, the combined offer of water from Kabini and Cauvery for Mysore town can rise to a pair of.5 tmcft of water annually. with the exception of these 2 massive cities, Pandavapura (0.04 tmcft), Hunsur (0.027 tmcft), Malavalli, (0.02 tmcft), T Narasipur (0.02 tmcft) and Nanjangud (0.05 tmcft). This quantum of water excludes the water demand of establishments and industries.