New waste water treatment technology brings hope for India’s polluted rivers

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New waste water treatment technology brings hope for India’s polluted rivers

The technology called ‘advanced oxidation’ or ‘TADOX’ that uses UV-Photocatalysis is likely to be a game changer for India’s effort to keep its major rivers including Ganges clean and healthy by ensuring large scale treatment of highly polluted toxic industrial waste water and its maximum reuse instead of discharging them into rivers.

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In a significant breakthrough, Indian scientists have developed a wastewater treatment technology that can treat all types of waste water in an efficient and cost effective manner thus maximizing its industrial reuse and minimizing the discharge of polluted water into the country’s rivers.

The technology called ‘advanced oxidation’ or ‘TADOX’ that uses UV-Photocatalysis is likely to be a game changer for India’s effort to keep its major rivers including Ganges clean and healthy by ensuring large scale treatment of highly polluted toxic industrial waste water and its maximum reuse instead of discharging them into rivers.

The technology has been developed by New Delhi based Energy and Resources Institute and TERI. It will according to a note by the Ministry of Science and Technology, go a long way in reducing the dependence and load on biological and tertiary treatment systems and help achieve Zero Liquid Discharge or ZLD by 25-30 per cent and bring down the operating cost of industrial waste water treatment by 30-40 per cent.

SOURCE by Dipankar Chakraborty 

Link to topic on the TERI website

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