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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

Critical issues and strategies for wastewater management in Kanpur and New Delhi presented in a policy brief

15/03/2022

Our progress report (July 2021)

09/07/2021

Ruben Vingerhoets awarded for his Masters’ thesis at IIT Kanpur

09/07/2021

At the beginning of 2020 Ruben Vingerhoets (University of Antwerp) travelled to the Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Kanpur, where he tested the IPC Membrane component of the Andicos technology and adapted it to th

Joint Webinar shows the way towards zero water pollution in India

17/06/2021

New scientific article about the role of the mesh pore size in Dynamic Membrane Bioreactors

25/02/2021

Pavitra Ganga's policy brief launched on Water Digest Awards 2019-2020

17/12/2020

Pavitra Ganga policy brief depicts determinants of (un)successful wastewater treatment and resource recovery reuse governance models

28/09/2020

Co-creation workshops to map and analyse wastewater management challenges in Delhi

28/09/2020

“Without stakeholder engagement we cannot realise our ambition to create new waste water treatment options that work for India”

28/09/2020

 

Interview with Tineke Hooijmans (IHE Delft) and Anshuman (TERI) on Pavitra Ganga's water governance work

Pavitra Ganga partners visit the Kanpur villages using partially treated sewage and tannery effluents from the Jajmau area

05/05/2020

FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING OF PAVITRA GANGA IN NEW DELHI

03/04/2020

Stakeholder consultation workshop in Kanpur: an animated discussion about waste water management complexities and responsibilities

03/04/2020

Pavitra Ganga and the EU-India Water Projects

man on body of water

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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Ganges

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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