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Pavitra Ganga

An EU-India project unlocking wastewater treatment,water re-use and resource recovery opportunities for urban and peri-urban areas in India.

Demonstration Site New Delhi

The Barrapullah drain

The 1.25 million Liters of wastewater that passes daily through the Barapullah drain systems make it an ideal demonstration site for the technologies that Pavitra Ganga will test.

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Barapullah

Demonstration Site Kanpur

The Jajmau Sewage Treatment Plant

The three different treatment plants at Jajmau (Kanpur) are underperforming and cause different kinds of environmental pollution. This demonstration site offers thus the opportunity to test decentralised treatment solutions for secondary and advanced treatment in specific real-life conditions and to detect and remediate problems as a result of upscaling.

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Jajmau STP

Work Packages of Pavitra Ganga

The work packages of Pavitra Ganga set out the activities of the project:

Water Governance

Monitoring and Modelling

Treatment and Recovery Technologies

Piloting

Education and Training

Market Uptake and Business Development

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The workpackages of Pavitra Ganga

News

Highly appreciated workshop on wastewater safety planning at the IWA Conference in Chennai

19/01/2023

Wastewater safety planning surveys in the villages receiving treated wastewater for irrigation in Kanpur

16/12/2022

5th India-EU Water Forum on Water Cooperation visits our demonstration site in New Delhi

16/12/2022

New insights for the water system in Kanpur and New Delhi

16/12/2022

 

Interview with M.Dinesh Kumar (IRAP) about the develoment of regional water quantity and water quality modelling scenarios for impact asse

A road map to exploit the wastewater treatment, water reuse and resource recovery opportunities for the Kanpur Nagar region

15/12/2022

Photoactivated sludge reactor running at demonstration site Barapullah

01/12/2022

Inauguration of the Kanpur demonstration site by Smt. Neha Jain (IAS)

16/06/2022

“The rejuvenation of river Ganga requires a holistic approach”

03/05/2022

 

Interview with Shri D.P. Mathuria, Executive Director (Technical) at the National Mission for Clean Ganga

Pavitra Ganga's Progress Report (April 2022)

03/05/2022

New scientific article about the perceived drivers and barriers in the governance of wastewater treatment and reuse

03/05/2022

Pavitra Ganga’s innovation site at Kanpur is ready to receive pilots

05/04/2022

Pavitra Ganga concludes its series of co-creation workshops

31/03/2022

Pavitra Ganga and the EU-India Water Projects

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About

The Pavitra Ganga project's aim is to define innovative, cost effective and energy efficient solutions for the treatment of (unregulated) drains in India.

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Local challenges

India’s water resources are under severe stress resulting from overexploitation and pollution.

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Objectives

To achieve the goals of PAVITRA GANGA we have set a number of specific objectives.

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Partners and sister projects

Discover more about the Pavitra Ganga consortium and the EU-India sister projects.

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lab scale monitoring

Treatment and recovery technologies

Pavitra Ganga tests and demonstrates innovative waste water treatment and resource recovery technologies both lab scale and in real life Indian conditions. Discover the technologies here.

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Andicos Pilot Scheme

Piloting

Pavitra Ganga validates the selected technologies at the demonstration sites and demonstrates modular wastewater treatment solutions in specific setups.

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