National Framework for Safe Reuse of Treated Wastewater

Source: The post is based on the article “National Framework for Safe Reuse of Treated Wastewater”  published in PIB on 27th July 2023.

What is the News?

Minister of State for Jal Shakti has informed Lok Sabha about the Arth Ganga Model and the initiatives taken to promote the reuse of treated water.

What is the Arth Ganga Model?

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What are the initiatives taken by the government to promote the reuse of treated water?

National Framework for Safe Reuse of Treated Wastewater: It has been published by the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG).The framework gives guidelines for the formulation of State reuse policy and is intended to build appropriate market and economic models for the reuse of treated wastewater.

Centre of Excellence(CoE) on water reuse has been established in partnership with The Energy Research Institute (TERI) on Water Reuse at the TERI Headquarters in New Delhi. 

Thermal Power Plants(TPPs) are required by the Ministry of Power’s Tariff Policy 2016 to use treated sewage water from Sewage Treatment Plants(STPs) operated by municipalities or other local authorities located within a 50 km radius.

Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has formulated a charter based participatory approach to facilitate the industries for water recycling and pollution prevention in major industrial sectors like Pulp & Paper, Sugar, Textile and Tannery in river Ganga main stem states.

Industry Specific Improvement: Reuse and recycling of wastewater in Industries has been promoted in water intensive grossly polluting industrial units along river Ganga.