MADURAI: Even as the corporation has commenced desilting work in three of the 16 irrigation canals running through the city ...

COIMBATORE: Residents living near Subramaniyampalayam can breathe easy - literally. Fears of foul smell from the upcoming ...

A majority of the districts in India are water-scarce as of 2025 and a few ... says that many apartments in Chennai use treated wastewater for flushing. Though the city’s planning authority mandates ...

Chennai: Every morning for the past few days, families in parts of Perungudi have turned on their taps only to find water mixed with sewage ... coli test and chlorine flush would be conducted ...

India’s metropolitan cities ... This redirected all the wastewater into the drum. 4. Reuse the water: Once collected, the water is used for mopping floors, the first rinse of dishes, flushing toilets, ...

Reflecting on their roots and the potential impact, they decided to return to India ... treat its wastewater. The hotel reuses 90 percent of its water, using it for everything from flushing ...

A similar model operates in Chennai and could be replicated all over India. There are also benefits to be gained from recycling the valuable nutrients found in wastewater — like nitrogen ...

This shortfall is aggravated by use of drinking water for secondary purposes such as flushing ... MLD of sewage treated water (once all the STPs are fully functional) will be a huge quantity, almost ...

Mohammed Azhar holds his baby niece next to a storm drain full of plastic and stinking black sludge, testament to India's failure to treat nearly two-thirds of its urban sewage. "We stay inside ...

Chennai Rivers Restoration ... not have the infrastructure to treat their sewage. They end up discharging their sewage in Adyar or Palar, ” says Darwin Annadurai, an environmental scientist at Eco ...

We did a survey for about 200 apartments and found that only 20% of STP (sewage treatment plant) treated water is reused for garden and flushing purposes,” explains ... system and most viable ...