As it gears up to meet its target of providing functional household tap connection to every rural home by 2024 in the country, the Union Jal Shakti Ministry has recommended five innovative technologies to help States/UTs to deliver drinking water services of adequate quantity and prescribed quality to rural communities.
These are Grundfos AQpure, a solar energy based water treatment plant based on ultra filtration, Janajal Water on Wheel, an IoT based electric vehicle based on GPS location to enable delivery of safe water to the doorstep of households, Presto Online Chlorinator, a non-electricity dependent online chlorinator for disinfection of water for removal of bacterial contamination.
The two others are Johkasou technology – an inbuilt packaged black (sewage) and grey water (Kitchen and bath water) treatment system having advanced anaerobic-aerobic configuration that can be installed underground and FBTec, a site assembled decentralised sewage treatment system using fixed filter media, said an official from the Ministry.
He said these technologies would now be listed in the innovation portal of the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation under the Ministry. “These technologies have been appraised at different levels before consideration and recommendation by a high-scientific level technical panel of the Ministry,” said the official. He added that more technologies will be included in case they pass certain criterias specified by the panel.