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Insight by Emily Wright O'Kelly, Tobias Bernstein
News publ. 19. Jul 2013
The population of the ECO-India pilot villages Jyot Sujan and Malpara in West Bengal, India has been brought one step closer to the project aim of supplying safe drinking water and providing an integrated community based water resource management. ECO-India objectives are to deploy energy efficient community-based water and wastewater treatment systems in India.
Timely at the beginning of the monsoon, the first phase of construction activities has been successfully completed. The constructions are based on comprehensive assessment like hydrological tests on both surface water and ground water to determine nature and constituents of water. The selected drinking water source, a village pond is excavated to a desired depth to increase the capacity. Bunds have been constructed with proper slope and elevation encompassing the project pond. Number of surveys had been conducted to study the topography of the pilot site determining the slopes for the construction of rain water harvesting channels for catchment area. The first treatment step, a silt trap has been constructed to control the inflow of sediments into the storage pond and divert the first flush rainwater by a shutter system. The local Adelphi project team is now looking forward to the second construction phase in which the overall water treatment and supply will be setup.
ECO-India is a collaborative project being supported by the Directorate-General for Research & Innovation from the European Commission (FP7) and the Indian Department of Science and Technology (DST). The overall aim of the project is to develop a sustainable, innovative, environmental friendly and cost effective water supply system for arsenic-affected water-stressed regions in India.
For further information go to:
http://www.eco-india.eu
http://www.adelphi.de/en…